I have yet to see one stalk of asparagus come up in my garden, but I’m waiting, albeit impatiently, and it’s warm enough for me to have a serious craving. At our recent Easter dinner, India, a friend and chef, brought asparagus cooked in a new way. And it was du-lish-ous, as Chloe says. While [...]
To travel somewhere and experience differences and then to relish in coming home is a delicious feeling. Last week, I traveled for five days with friends to Portland, Oregon, where the weather was so temperate, I didn’t even need the coat I’d left in my car in Portland, Maine. I’m told by locals that it’s [...]
We’re seated at the dinner table as a family, a cozy little scene, when my oldest daughter takes a bite of her vegetables, screws up her face and says, “Mama, there’s something not right about these vegetables!” A usual comment at dinner tables across the country I’m sure, but not with this daughter. Chloe likes [...]
It’s getting a little late in the season for fingerless mittens, but to round out the post that already ran about Chloe’s sweater, I thought I’d close the loop. The previous post was about upcycling a felted sweater. I cut the sleeves into three-quarter length and then had about 5 inches of cuff and lower [...]
My Bread by Jim Lahey, all about the no-knead bread process, is my new favorite read. Mostly, it’s my new favorite “look” because the book has a number of super helpful photo essays that illustrate what the bread should look like, step by step. When I initially wrote my column on no-knead bread using my [...]
Last weekend over 40 of us gathered together with sewing needles and yarn to sew 141 knitted squares into blankets. It was a short two and a half weeks from first knitted square to blankets (except for Iris, who began knitting squares when she heard the words “knit-a-thon”). You go, girl! Many, but not all, [...]
At our girls’ school, maple sugaring is the responsibility of the third grade. I don’t know if it’s a Waldorf tradition or if its just our school, but the process and the history gets passed down from one class to another. The sugar shack was built a number of years ago by that year’s third [...]
There are some years where it stays so cold and snowy all the way up to June that I can’t bring myself to bundle up and trudge outside to prune the apple trees. This year, however, we’ve had such a warm spell that it was a treat to spend several hours outside without my head [...]
Eating local during the months before the garden really gets going is the toughest. My body is craving fruit and LOTS of veggies but they all come from far, far away… except for what’s in the freezer and the pantry. Can’t get much more local than that! Not only does it feel terrific to be [...]
Lest you think I am not a 100% fair and equitable mom, I post here the sweater I made for Ella’s birthday. Hers started with a browse through Salvy’s. I spotted the sweater from across two isles knowing it was the perfect color for my more finicky daughter and practically lunged for it. I may [...]
