I follow Sue Riedl’s Cheese & Toast blog on Instagram @cheese.and.toast as everyone should, and one day she posted a food porn picture of...

Val and I wanted to make something special for Christmas dinner, so we went to Google and found this festive recipe on BBC Good Food. We...

My sister Valerie and her hubby Walker got a Himalayan pink salt block for Christmas, so naturally we wanted to try it out at Christmas....

It not quite a white Christmas yet here in Minneapolis, but my sister is bringing on the holiday charm with this fantastic recipe from...

Violet gave a presentation on Estonian Winter Holidays this week, and needed to share either a song, a recipe or a game with the class. I...

I attend a monthly ‘women’s accountability’ meeting where we discuss our careers and how to get where we want to be. Lately we’ve been...

It’s fig season! Our little two-year old tree has been delivering a dozen figs a week for the past month, so I decided to make a tart! It...

Perfect! What an obnoxious claim. But, like my Perfect Lemonade, my stuffing is perfect to me. It’s my grandmother’s recipe and she...

I kid you not, this is the best lemonade I’ve ever had. Richard and Violet have been perfecting the recipe over the last few weeks and...

Lately I’ve been looking for recipes that use a lot of lemons. This is why: Of course it’s a blessing from the gods of edible gardens to...

Christmas just isn’t the same without cookies. I have so many warm, wonderful memories of baking cookies at Christmas – whether it was my...

Sometimes I think those polenta tubes in the supermarket are a disgrace. It’s like cheating. How hard is it to boil cornmeal for a few...

It’s the 4th of July! And while I don’t have a red, white and blue flag to wave outside the house, I always have a bag of apples. When...

“I hope the five new bananas didn’t see me throwing away the five old bananas.” – Blaine Capatch on Twitter Thanks to Ellen for pointing...

I just discovered the whole wheat pizza dough at Trader Joe’s. Huzzah! Pizza is so fun to make. Just look how fun this is! I don’t know...

This salad is so simple that’s it’s really just of an excuse for me to take more pretty pictures of our garden tomatoes! We grew the...

Are you jealous? You should be. Not only did I get to eat one of these beauties over the weekend, I also got to eat Violet’s after she...

Is it ice cream? Some kind of berry compote? Does it contain Blue Dye #2? No to all of the above! It’s purple mashed potatoes!!!! Violet...

Violet and I just got home from a nice long vacation in Toronto and Cobourg – more on that later in other places on this blog – and we...

Violet and I both love chocolate, but I’m starting to get concerned about her constant cravings, asking for a bowl of chocolate chips...