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Today I set myself a challenge. I looked over last week’s grocery receipts. Percentage spent on local food? 32%. Not horrible, I suppose, but I know I can do better. I want to do better.
So I started trying to come up with ways to improve that percentage… I can continue my practice of Conscious Shopping [...]

Call me crazy, but I actually do like winter. I think it’s beautiful. Right now I’m looking out my window and I can see the frozen lake through bare branches and I find myself feeling quite cozy here, writing and sipping my pomegranate green tea.
      I don’t even mind the cold. For the most part. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 
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 [...]

 
 
I hope everyone enjoyed a happy Earth Day! What a great way to honor Mother Earth and all she provides. Let’s keep up the green momentum! Just like taking one small step toward keeping chemicals and toxins out of your body, make another small step to keep them out of hers. Like the saying goes, [...]