We skipped a week of planning because of illness and work and it really showed when we wound up flailing for something to eat near the end of the week. We also plowed through our freezer meals and finally wound up ordering pizza for lunch/dinner. …

This past week I had 2 recipes lined up ready to cook and photograph and then in the middle of the night Tuesday, I woke up with that feeling that says “here comes a migraine”. Meds didn’t help this one and I’ve spent the last …

The Friday Roundup is my weekly list of things that don’t rate a standalone post but that I found interesting. It’s been cold at night and so we’ve been keeping a fire going in the fireplace which may be my favorite part of winter. Work …

I’m reconsidering the “Friday Five” theme since it seems limiting to me. Some weeks I might have more than 5 things to share, and some weeks fewer, so I’m inclined to change it to some kind of Friday week in review going forward. In the …

A while back I posted a recipe for Instant Pot chicken stock, and I still use that recipe once in a while when I need chicken stock quickly or I need to make multiple batches for a big cook. In the last couple of years, …

The seed catalogs and garden catalogs are starting to show up in my mailbox and it’s making me excited about the coming year and some of the things we have planned to do around the property! Last year was our “discovery” year, so most of …

This weeks meal plan includes lots of soup. I’m in a soup phase and we’ll just have to deal with it! Last week’s Friday dinner didn’t happen as we were deep into planning Saturday’s event. We wound up reheating leftovers and making toasted sandwiches, so …

Adding more “lifestyle” to this here blog! How about a roundup of my reading each month? Maybe y’all will be interested, maybe not – but we’ll see how it goes, shall we? Here’s what I read in January of 2022: My favorite book this month …

. I’m late with the post today: My excuse is that today is my birthday and it felt like a weekend day, but also, I just plain forgot. So here we go. ONE In a little blog cleanup: I’ve moved the Monday Meal Plan posts …

Right before the Covid lockdowns started a couple of years ago, we were starting to see “poke” shops popping up everywhere around here. If you’re not familiar with it, poke (pronounced poh-KAY) is a Hawaiian dish of raw fish served with soy or sesame oil …

This weeks meal plan is slimmed down because we still have a fridge full of leftovers and a freezer full of freezer meals. Also continuing to add recipes from Grains for Every Season by Joshua McFadden and The Weekday Vegetarians: 100 Recipes and a Real-Life …

. ONE If you haven’t heard by now, you can go online and order free Covid tests to be delivered to your home. Right now every household is eligible for a 4-pack of tests. You can order them here: https://special.usps.com/testkits . TWO Zach and I …