Our Share of the Harvest

We had lentils.  We had rice.  We had fresh spinach.  We had cucumbers, yogurt, scallions, herbs, spices, garlic and just about everything else this recipe called for when I looked it over in last month’s issue of Bon Appetit so I put it on the weekly menu.  Yet it sat there, moving further down the [...]

One of my very best friends is expecting her first child early next year and I couldn’t be more happy for her!  She is the third in our group of friends to be pregnant and therefore the third to share all her experiences, good and bad.  Now, I know you’re not supposed to care about [...]

Blogging barely pays its own bills, much less does it pay the actual bills so I make sure I’m really good at my day job. And part of that day job is giving hour-long presentations about my work to the entire department.  I freak out about this stuff.  I mean, can’t sleep, butterflies for days, [...]

I absolutely love when I get a craving for something, Google the recipe and find one my favorite bloggers has a recipe for just the thing I’m looking for.  So, imagine how giddy I was to find that a search for “Peach bars” turned up Brown Eyed Baker and Annie’s Eats as two of the [...]

It’s everywhere I look–pumpkin waffles, pumpkin doughnuts, pumpkin beer, pumpkin bread and, the most tempting of all, the Pumpkin Spice Latte.  The urge to be thrilled by pumpkin-flavored foods is not just coming from the corporate world who wants to sell me a $5 coffee; pumpkin purchases are being exclaimed in my Facebook feed, bloggers [...]