I've been perfecting a no-knead artisan bread for the past 7 years. I've combined recipes and techniques from the New York Times no-...

This Thursday our public school served a special Christmas meal for lunch. When I read Zari's menu, I had a "we're not in Kansa...

A cold, snowy day in Minnesota made a lovely Christmas. Ivy turned 9 months old today. Her biggest milestone this month is ...

Tonight we had simple but extraordinarily delicious dinner: Dijon chicken with new red potatoes (from our garden!). I went back through the ...

A few days ago, I was browsing through some clearance bins at the grocery store and saw a package of Betty Crocker Decadent Supreme Chocolat...

In November, I and two other families started a dinner co-op, which I wrote about here . We were all so happy when the holidays were over an...

4 pm is my witching hour. Naps and quiet time are over. The kids need to run around and play. They're also hungry. It's time to star...

This summer, we found a big, fat caterpillar in our garden that looked like this. Zari still talks about it. When I asked her what kind of ...

1. Find a sugar maple tree. 2. Wait until the temperatures start to rise above freezing during the day. This just happened last week where ...

Earlier this week I was listening to an NPR program interviewing Michael Pollan (author of several books on food, including The Omnivore...

I just had to share these two news articles that just came out. In Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You , Jane E. Brody discusses rece...

Today Zari and I met Eric on campus to attend a lecture by Joel Salatin , owner of Polyface Farm . He is the "grass farmer" featur...