{What’s For Dinner} Lettuce Wraps

Right now, we’re buried in ice and snow during an unusually cold winter. However, there are nagging garden thoughts in the back of my mind. Lettuce and other leafy greens will be on the first fruits of spring. We also have a half a cow in our freezer downstairs–a lot of which is ground beef. […]

{Recipe} Latkes courtesy of Campbell’s

Half of us are mostly grain free. Two of those are also avoiding phenols. Another is mildly allergic to eggs. Add normal kid pickiness and changing tastes, and cooking a main meal for everyone…impossible. Keeping up with our life while cooking for everyone…also impossible. Food is one of those battles I have chosen not to […]

Perfect Primal (or Paleo) Pancakes

For almost two months now, 4 of us have been eating mostly Primal (think Paleo with more dairy). If you don’t know what Paleo is, think grain-free or only fruit, veggies, meat, nuts, and seeds. It started with me trying to kick regular migraines, a nagging joint injury, and unstable blood sugar levels when I […]

2013 Garden Tour

We often get asked, “So what do you grow?” The answer changes a bit every year. Basically we go through a seed catalog and grow what looks fun plus the stuff we know we’ll eat. Earlier this spring we had those early spring things such as beets (upper left), radishes (bottom), and asparagus (upper right). […]

Name that Photo Contest

**And the winner is “A Gene Simmons GMO.” It made us laugh out loud.** I couldn’t resist. This tomato out of our garden screamed, “Make me a name-that-photo!” Best caption (comment with your entry) wins a copy of CollageIt Pro. Entries will be accepted through Friday.  

Fresh pumpkin, the fast way

The first year in this house, we grew pumpkins in our garden. They took up way more room than we anticipated but were the coolest thing we’d ever grown to date. In my mind, if you grow your own pumpkins, you can’t just carve them and toss them. You have to eat them too. My […]