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This isn't a complaint, but it's well past Epiphany and I've been “stuck” in Vermont since Dec. 23. What's that thing about our best laid plans? My plan was to come home for Christmas and maybe stay for New Year's… And yet, here I am, blogging from my mother's kitchen table. In Vermont. In what [...]

Whoo hoo! My e-book, Conscious Shopping: Making Decisions About What You Eat & How You Buy It," is done!. I'm so excited and it seems like a serendipitous event, since there's all this attention around real food vs. junk food this week. All week, friends and family have been forwarding me links to Mark Bittman's [...]

Perfection—if defined as anything other than being perfectly me—is not a state of being to which I aspire. I have enough to think about without having to conform to some ideal of perfection, which I'm quite certain would not allow for the dishes in my sink or the ripped out knees in my favorite pair [...]

Second Saturday dinners here in the Humble Neighborhood went on hiatus during the cold winter months, but now that the days are warm, sunny and getting longer, I'm thinking about bringing them back. Just for the summer–June through September. Any takers? New to the Humble Neighborhood? Here's the deal: I cook. You come and eat–and [...]

Day:          03 Days Left:  27 Some days nothing goes as planned. I don’t know why. It just does. I’m still new to yogurt-making and so I can’t say just what went wrong, but something did. No yogurt for breakfast—which is a good thing, really. I wanted to shake things up with this challenge and if [...]

Day:          02 Days Left:  28  In two short days, I’m discovering that this project isn’t just about eating and the shopping and cooking that go with it. I’m thinking more about waste…food that doesn’t get eaten, time that gets eaten up by things that don’t matter, everything that goes into the garbage can. I decided when [...]

I’ve spent the last several months discovering root vegetables. For whatever reasons, I never ventured much beyond potatoes, carrots, onions and the occasional yam. Last spring I stumbled upon parsnips and well, yum! Why had I never tried them before?! Who knows? Thus began my foray into the Wonderful World of Root Vegetables. The latest [...]

After the rainy summer we’ve had here in the northeast, I’ve been more than ready for the sunny-crisp days of autumn. Clear blue skies, plenty of sun to take the edge off the impending cooler temperatures…in my opinion, perfect weather! So when the clouds started rolling in this morning and I could feel the damp [...]

All I wanted was a crispy bit of whole grain toast. Too much to ask? I don’t think so. And the only decision I wanted to make was: sweet potato spread or freshly made homemade butter? That’s right, freshly homemade organic butter. Yum. The butter might have won out, I think, but I opened the [...]

Cooking I love. Cleaning up, not so much. My neat and orderly Virgo nature goes on vacation when I’m in the kitchen zealously concocting this, that or the other thing. A pinch of this, a dash of that and the next thing I know my inner Tasmanian devil has unleashed herself in a whirlwind of [...]