Radishes, spinach and lettuce seeds are all happily sprouting on the window sill in the kitchen where I can water them, love on them, enjoy them and talk to them. The ground is still mostly covered with snow. The skies are often gray but oddly bright with frequent white fluffy flakes drifting down. And inside, […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Close to Home, Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, Garden, Uncategorized, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, Cooking, greenhouse, Maine, micro-greens, Recipes
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February 27, 2013 – 10:19 am
I couldn’t take it one more day. The seed catalogs have begun to saunter in and I’ve resisted looking at one, but instead have filed them in the cabinet next to my desk. It’s February you see. If I look at seeds and green and growing, I will start to yearn – for seeds and […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, Garden, Uncategorized
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Tagged greenhouse, growing, indoor gardeing, lettuce, Maine Gardening, paper boxes, radishes, recycled seed trays, seed starting, Seedlings, Spinach
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January 29, 2013 – 4:43 pm
Isn’t it awesome when you figure out what makes you more efficient, life run smarter, processes cleaner, efforts smoother? We just had one of those moments here in the office and as of today, Maine Sails Blog will be folded into the At Home, At Sea blog. Only one blog instead of two. One blog […]
January 7, 2013 – 9:49 am
Grumpy didn’t begin to describe how I was coming to feel about our 15 year old couch. My parents still have the couch they were gifted when they married and even more, the couches that were my grandparents. Yup, re-upolstered, but still have them. So when I looked at our couch, only 15 years old, […]
November 20, 2012 – 1:16 pm
Dear Grandma, Well, the moment I’ve been dreaming about and waited on for so long has arrived and I’m about to go out to harvest my first crop of elderberries. When I do, I’ll don a white, long sleeved shirt that Jon tossed into the rag pile, only it won’t go down to my knees […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Canning and Preserving, Close to Home, Cooking, Eco-Friendly & Sustainability, Fruit, Garden, Uncategorized, Vegetarian
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Tagged Annie Mahle, Cooking, elderberries, grandma, jam, Recipes
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November 14, 2012 – 11:00 am
My dad has a saying, ‘Once you get a good thing, why change it?’ This saying applies to hats, jackets, coats, flashlights… and the list goes on. Electronics, of course, are excepted from this adage. Which means that when a hat wears out after 20 years of use, he looks for a new one just […]
November 8, 2012 – 11:41 am
Before they came to us to sail for 4 days, bloggers Joy Wilson of Joy the Baker and Jen Yu of use real butter ate at El Rayo, Ten Apple Farm, In Good Company and last but not least, Fore Street. They cook, they write recipes, they write books, they blog about food and they […]
January 23, 2012 – 9:35 am
Certainly when the girls and Jon gifted me with a greenhouse for Mother’s Day last year, this is not what I was hoping for when I walked to the back of the house one recent blustery day! The winds blow so hard on our property that securing this house to the ground somehow becomes a […]
September 24, 2011 – 11:02 am
People say that the memory of smell is one of our strongest and when I smell my mom’s Spaghetti and Meatballs I am transported. Suddenly, I’m looking up at my elders, hanging onto pant legs, bickering with my brothers and feeling unbelievably wrapped in home and love. My mom and dad are here for a […]
By Annie Mahle
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Also posted in Close to Home, Columns, Cook the Book, Grains and Pasta, Kids Food, Main Dishes, Uncategorized
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Tagged Annie Mahle, cooking with mom, meatballs, spaghetti with meatballs, stuffed meatballs
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The things that I use everyday that give me a moment’s pleasure are some of the best gifts I’ve ever received. When the kitchen faucet handle came off in Jon’s hand the other day and I turned to see what his sound of ‘uh, oh’ was all about, I almost jumped up and down. Being […]
