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 I find [...]
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 was mapping [...]
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 [...]
Tags: being healthy, easy healthy recipes, favorite recipes, fight cancer, lower your risk, vegetables and fruits, vitamins and mineralsAfter 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 [...]
Tags: bread pudding, farm stand, farmers market, leftovers, organic, peaches, recipes, vegetables and fruitsCooking 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 [...]
Tags: being healthy, Cookbook, easy healthy recipes, Get Organized, simplify your lifeHappy accidents or complete disasters, mistakes are an essential part of the learning process. Trust me, I know what I’m talking about.
Case in point…
The first time I made dinner for a boy was a disaster. Food this bad should be outlawed. Seriously. But there I was—17 and feeling pretty cocky about my mad kitchen skills. [...]
I love blogging. That is, I loved the idea of blogging as I envisioned a pithy online chronicling of the World According to Me, kind of a quirky glimpse into the organized chaos in my head, peppered with professions of my love of good food, good health and a few of my favorite recipes.
But [...]
