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whole30: week one + recipe ideas
I’m sorry I’ve been MIA around here! I have missed writing and sharing. I decided to try another Whole30 for the month of January, so it isn’t like I haven’t…
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my year in reading {2014}
Happy new year! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. I’ve been sick for much of the past three weeks, so Christmas was a bit of a blur.…
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wendell for wednesday
Wendell in response to the question, “What have you gained from your wholesale avoidance of electronic media?” The avoidance is not “wholesale,” which it cannot be. When I want to,…
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wendell for wednesday
Wendell, on gift giving: People who love each other need to have something they can do for each other, and it will need to be something necessary, not something frivolous.…
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wendell for wednesday
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[g-rant] simplifying christmas + hundred dollar holiday review
Note from Sara: Grant is the jolliest elf I know. He loves Christmas like no one else I know, so when he kept talking about this book, I asked him…
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speculaas cookies (Dutch Christmas cookies)
As a little girl, we celebrated St. Nicholas Day by putting our shoes outside the night before December 6th. St. Nicholas would come and fill our shoes with treats. It…
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cookbook christmas wish list
I love cookbooks. The best gift Grant ever gave me was twelve months of cookbooks for Mother’s Day one year. I was allowed to buy a cookbook a month for…
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[g-rant] diy green cleaners
Attention buyers of “natural” cleaning supplies: stop buying green cleaners when you can just make your own. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for folks at farmer’s markets pushing…
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kitchen basics for the cooks on your christmas list
Last year, I did a Christmas list for foodies and one for the treehuggers on your list – be sure to check out those if you’re interested. This year, I…