Likes to Play With Her Food

Last summer my friend Mary told me of a fig tree that was just loaded with ripe figs.  We promptly went to work picking and drying figs that...

Sunday was another warm day inside watching it rain.  I managed to create a couple more items for our meals this week.  I am enjoying the pl...

Nice quiet weekend at home on a rainy cold January weekend.  The holidays are behind us and I still have one more weekend in between now and...

I got to spend some time with Ruth last week. She's my favorite organic farmer. That's a treat in the winter because I don't see...

The second recipe Barb sent for me to try last week was a Stifado .  Stifado dishes are stews, and they are easy to recognize: they include ...

It's January and everyone has cleaning up their act, physically, on their minds.  The ads are full of fitness tips and programs.  There ...

This weekend I made a big pot of Chana Dal using the Madras Rasam spices Timothy gave me for Christmas and some of my home canned organic t...

I thought I'd better get busy trying a couple recipes out of my latest Veg News .  The new issue is about to come out and I've hardl...

I received a package of Madras Rasam powder for a Christmas gift.  Madras Rasam Powder is made with coriander powder, red chilli powder, r...

Michael Pollan's Food Rule #39 Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself. There is nothing wrong with eati...

It's getting colder and we're spending more time inside.  The electric company is threatening to raise the bill 16% so I'm tryi...

We squeezed in a little holiday fun together too this weekend.

One of the big reasons I haven't been to the PC to catch up on the blog is because I've picked up a crochet hook.  The garden wor...

Kaylee came over to play yesterday.  I recently downloaded an electronic cookbook for kids, Monkey Mike's Raw Food Kitchen, an Un-Cookbo...