Category Archives: Holidays & Entertaining

Caramelized Fennel with Orange

Caramelized Fennel with Orange

Our local grocery store is kind enough to donate their vegetable and fruit scraps to us as a supplement to our pigs’ diet. If the pigs’ weekly loot is any indication, fennel is not a terribly popular vegetable, which is unfortunate, as it is one of my favorites, and I believe it is deserving ofContinue Reading

Pumpkin Pie Baked Steel Cut Oats from The Whole Grain Promise: More Than 100 Recipes to Jumpstart a Healthier Diet + a giveaway

Pumpkin Pie Baked Steel Cut Oats from The Whole Grain Promise: More Than 100 Recipes to Jumpstart a Healthier Diet + a giveaway

This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Heather, Diane, and Tracy, who all won a copy of the fabulous book The Whole Grain Promise. full disclosure: I was provided a complimentary copy of The Whole Grain Promise: More Than 100 Recipes to Jumpstart a Healthier Diet by its publisher, Running Press. As always, all opinions areContinue Reading

Sweet Potato-Bacon Biscuits

Sweet Potato-Bacon Biscuits

It’s time to start thinking about Turkey Day dishes again, and what better place to start than the bread basket? Because who doesn’t love a light, fluffy, sweet, and spicy bread product when the holidays roll around? Heck, who doesn’t love a light, fluffy, sweet, and spicy bread product when tonight’s dinner rolls around? And whatContinue Reading

Happy 2015

Happy 2015

Hi there! As we start the new year, I want to thank you for visiting me here, and wish you a year filled with love, joy, and plenty. May the seeds you sow bloom beautifully, may all your meals be delicious (even those on the run – after all, we’re going for the ideal here!).Continue Reading

Easy Orange-Cranberry Sauce

Easy Orange-Cranberry Sauce

The weekend before Thanksgiving is always a bit hectic – for all of us – and this one was no different, though between the food preparation and tidying of the house (or, in our case, the studio in the barn, as we’re hosting our family for barbecue in the barn the night before the feast),Continue Reading