Five Fab Budget-friendly Foods for Winter

Every year, our team schedules a field trip to the pumpkin patch as close as we can get to Halloween. Every other year it seems, the pumpkins are snowed under. And every time this happens, we all shake our heads in wonder, as if snow in October is outlandishly early. Yet at the same time, it’s no surprise, obviously. This year, we measured a foot of snow on the back deck on Wednesday. Driving in to work was a mess, with...

In the Weeds with the HOA (Edible Weeds links)

Have I mentioned lately that I “mow” our back yard with a weed whacker? As you may know from a previous post…one of the first posts ever on this blog, in fact, we can’t run the sprinklers in the back because the combination of gentle decline and clay soil resulted in our unintentionally and continually flooding our neighbors garden, killing the plants that line the shared fence border. Not the best...

Quick post: Pick a Plate!

It’s only been a week, and I am already feeling my newly budding photography skills floundering. I do, however, have some pretty fun media to work with right now, the kind that keeps a person from from frowning too long: I need to play with my food. Have to. Really. Melissa, Elsi and I are writing a book called Plot to Plate: Grow, Cook, Create. It’ll be a long time coming yet, and so I’ll withhold further...

Quick Post: Berry Pretty, Longer

I had one of those mini-epiphanies the other day, the kind when something so seemingly obvious dawns on you in a new way, washing you over with an overblown sense of your prior obliviousness.  Doing a quick clean of the fridge, it suddenly made sense why berries are packaged in those flimsy clamshell containers with holes; it’s an effort to secure ventilation so the produce inside keeps better until purchased. You...

Quick post: Props for Pepsi

I’m not a soda drinker, and soft drinks don’t generally fit the scope of this blog, but it just so happens that Pepsi owns Quaker, and oats figure prominently here on a regular basis. Today, though, I’m not sharing a recipe but a simple observation that made me happy this weekend. You’ve probably already noticed it, and I think I may have too, but this was the first time I actually thought about what I...

Resource: All-natural Authenticity, Rocky Plains L...

Today Dave and I found an incredible local foods supplier that is also an invaluable reminder to be ever diligent in our scrutiny of  food purchases. It’s a sorry state, but the truth is that today we cannot afford complacent trust in potentially misleading labels, even those so wholesome seeming as natural, and even organic.  For my Colorado friends, this same farm store is also a genuine gem of a resource, one...