Recipes

The Red Ripe Strawberry

Are you familiar with the children’s picture book The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear, by Don Wood?  The field mouse has her eye on a very large and very ripe strawberry.  She manages to take it from the plant and haul it home, but…

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Berry Salsa
Recipes

Berry Salsa

Summer doesn’t start in our house until someone makes this oh-so-good and oh-so-healthy salsa!

Recipes

Let’s Do Breakfast

I have a friend who used to make Oreo cereal for breakfast.  She would put five or six Oreos in a mug, roughly break them up with a spoon and add milk. She wasn’t a kid when she did this, either. I have been forbidden to divulge this information to…

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Real Life

got dirt?

It’s the middle of May and time to grow some of your own real food inspiration!

Real Life

Spring Market: Radishes

Sometimes I play a game called Three Ways Before No Way : prepare a vegetable three different ways before saying, “No way”.  If, after trying a vegetable in three different recipes, I go back for seconds on any one of them, the vegetable wins.  Carrots, eggplants, and most recently, Brussels…

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