Let's talk strawberries for a moment, shall we? I'm rather smitten with berries of all sorts lately, but most especially strawber...

Yesterday I regaled you with the tale of why we had to update our kitchen. Today I'm going to show you what the new kitchen looks like....

For more than 5 years, this was my kitchen. When we moved to L-Town, I was still working for a custom publishing company in Des Moines an...

I love reading food blogs. If time allowed, I'd spend hours gazing at them. All those striking photos of decadent cakes, divine dinners,...

My first—and for the longest time only—experience with crepes came when My Parents would occasionally throw parties for their friends. Every...

Hello. Just wanted to let you know I'm here. I'm alive. I've been absent for a while, I know. I've been buried under t...

I have come to truly savor the moments when it is just the two of us. Cuddled on the couch with a book. Swaying back and forth in front of...

It's hard to believe it's been nearly a month since I quit eating wheat. Honestly, it has been a lot easier than I imagined—in large...

For a week and a half, we packed up the necessities in our house (which, I've discovered, is more than a carload of things when you have...

Remember a while ago when I talked about my comfort food-making spree? Well, along with meatloaf and mashed potatoes and quinoa and cheese...

Happy Valentine's Day! We don't get too into celebrating Feb. 14 around here, simply because Conservative Hubby insists it's a...

For breakfast, I love a fresh, fluffy biscuit or a nice, crumbly muffin. If you stop by here very often at all, you already know that I'...

When I say "comfort food," what do you think of? Mashed potatoes and meatloaf? Chicken and dumplings? Homemade macaroni and cheese...

Remember that time I tried an at-home avocado hair treatment and it yielded ... um ... less-than-stellar results? It's OK, I forgot i...

I love oatmeal . I love regular oatmeal with brown sugar. I love oats with nuts and fresh berries or dried cranberries and a touch of hone...