Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing. Not sure who this quote is attributed to but it makes me feel all cozy and happy as both reading and digging in the dirt are what’s fueling me these days. That and coffee, and yarn too.
I’m still nursing seedlings into the ground and...
Category Archives: Food and Drink
Library? Check. Garden? In progress..
Cloudy skies… happy earth.
The rain is pretty crazy here in the northeast isn’t it? We’ve had 8 straight days of some form of rain here in Philly and today was a bit of a break. Cloudy and gloomy but no rain fell so I was out in the garden! I was outside for the better part of the...
The city slicker finally takes the gardening plunge..
Okay chica so I’ve lived in the country for 10 years and I have gardened a ton - lots of container gardening but never have I attempted anything as ambitious as I’m doing this spring.
So these little beauties are germinating on my kitchen counter while the squash is learning how to weather the elements...
a new virtual playground for foodies… Rouxbe!
Those amazing canadians are at it again.. I’m having a great time playing around on Rouxbe.com. Full video recipes! A community! Cooking school videos complete with quizzes. It’s fun for the foodie crowd.
The videos are all about the technique… if you’re looking for slow sultry shots of Giada washing her hands this is...
Why I never throw out a Williams Sonoma catalog…
Okay that’s not technically true… I do toss them once I figure out what recipes I want to keep - and they do put them all up on their website which is very helpful. Their latest catalog is ‘Winter in the Alps’ theme and the main dish is a pork roast with pears and leeks....
Adventures in the new kitchen..
Lexie and I decided to pull out Tessa Kiro’s ‘Apples for Jam‘ cookbook and cook something sunny and yellow for a rainy day. I love this book because all the chapters are organized by ‘color’ of the meal. So much fun for a six year old to choose what color meal she wants to...