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 dust off things. There’s still a…
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 the best ways I can think…
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 make enough of it. Perhaps best…
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 place from start to finish. Sure,…
How many zucchini’s do you have growing in your garden right now? If you’re growing zucchini, your answer is probably, “Too many.” I love, LOVE growing zucchini but I always end up have too much of a good thing in late summer. This year we only…
Lemonade is the quintessential drink of summer so I felt like I couldn’t let the summer go by without sharing a lemonade recipe. But… I didn’t want to share just a regular lemonade. I love flavored lemonade and seeing what flavor combinations I can make. Last…
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 was something I looked forward to,…
I’ve been over here dragging my feet on a barn conversion update because it felt like there wasn’t much to see yet. But now that I go back and compare where we are to where we were, it’s incredible to see the progress that’s been made!…
When I started building my garden a few weeks ago, my neighbor came by because the truck with the compost was stuck in our yard. The compost truck was completely stuck in the middle of our property in a low-lying area that becomes so saturated we…
I have a love affair with arugula. I adore how it has its own unique flavor that differs from a lot of other leafy greens and how that taste compliments so many other delicious flavors. We’ve been eating arugula in so many different ways this season…
