During the summer following my kindergarten year, I walked the half-block from my house to the public library as frequently as my little 5-year old legs could manage, carrying piles of books to and fro. The library’s children’s room put on a reading challenge every summer – fill in the body of the centipede with… Continue Reading
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Poor Girl Gourmet Pointers: The Frugal Lunch
There’s an odd thing going on in my world lately, and it’s called “working off-site”. As it happens, working off-site means getting back to packing a lunch each day, a practice I had always undertaken when I worked off-site in the past. Even, in fact, when I was consistently getting paid. So it wasn’t an… Continue Reading
Funny, You Don’t Look a Day Over One and a Half
Absolutely nothing about those first few tentative tippity-taps of the keyboard as I sat, writing the first post here two years ago today, would ever have indicated what was to come from the simple act of starting a blog. In a vacuum. In my barn. Two years on, I feel so fortunate to have found… Continue Reading
Pumpkin Scones with Ginger-Honey Glaze
Scones are a tricky baked good. Some can be like biting into the ledge that New England sits upon; brittle bits of slate-like crumb, dry, yet dense – tempting us to dump their remains into bags labeled “Quickcrete” and then to plot how we can resell them as such at our local home improvement store.… Continue Reading
A Mother’s Day Giveaway with IceMilk Aprons
In celebration of Moms everywhere – IceMilk Aprons and I have teamed up to bring you a giveaway no Mom could resist (I mean, honestly, I just got my first IceMilk Apron and it is fabu!). So what’s the deal, you may ask? IceMilk Aprons, a gourmet line of heirloom aprons, makes for a meaningful… Continue Reading