I’m so happy to report that the barn renovation is about 97 percent complete! It’s been a long six months since the start of this project but we can see the finish line now and have started cleaning all the…
Fresh & Creamy Homemade Pasta Sauce
I made this recipe by accident. Or maybe it was more of a serendipitous moment? Either way, I’m so glad it happened because this Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato Homemade Pasta Sauce is my new favorite! It’s certainly one of…
Roasted Red Pepper And Tomato Soup
I’m a fan of soups in winter, spring, summer and fall…but fall most of all. There’s nothing like a good bowl of warm, fresh soup to cozy up with and I love how it can last for days if you…
Barndominium pictures and progress
I’ve never built a space from the ground up. Any renovations we did before moving to this house were all done within the constraints of the walls in previous houses. So, until now, I’ve never been able to design a…
Bacon & Blue Potato Salad Recipe
When I was a child, we would have a family picnic each summer. It would be a large party at a local forest preserve and include distant and extended family we would only see that one time a year. It…
Simple, delicious basil pesto recipe
With summertime in full swing, you probably have a vegetable garden that’s popping with fresh tomatoes, zucchini, basil, pea, green beans and more. While our garden was delayed over here this season, it is finally up and running. I’m thrilled…