A sad thing is happening in my life. The cup-pour-ri loose tea infusers we use all the time are starting to fall apart. It’s not that they’re poorly manufactured; the one that’s breaking I’ve owned for almost 10 years and I use it all the time. The other one I bought 3 years ago on [...]
A couple weeks ago I posted about the kitchen tools I could live without; those items in my cupboards that I’m not always sure why I’m holding on to. Come to find out, a lot of people need cocktail shakers. Anyway, the only acceptable follow-up would be to share the kitchen items I love and [...]
I love kitchen gadgets. If there’s a kitchen store around, I have to go check it out, even if it’s one I’ve been in a million times before. I frequently manage to escape with my wallet intact because, between the wedding and subsequent Christmases and birthdays, we’ve amassed a pretty decent number of kitchen tools. [...]
Remember Christmas? It was only 10 days ago, after all. But for some reason (and I’ve only been back at school for 2 days) it seems like a lifetime ago. Going from vacation to work again is like whiplash. So let’s go back a couple weeks ago, when I was in North Carolina wearing a [...]
Before, we only had enough dishes for 8 people. You would think that would be enough, but when some of those dishes get used as serving dishes or aren’t all clean, it’s not always enough for company. Thanks to the generosity of my parents, we now have enough dishes for 12. Before, we only had [...]
Generally speaking, we don’t use a lot of salad dressing around here, despite the fact that summer finds us consuming an awful lot of salad. Growing up, my family always had several varieties of salad dressing available, but once I married Brian we switched to making our own vinaigrette on a nightly basis to top [...]
There are a lot of things I life I frequently tell others about. Our CSA, my recent cooking adventures, how funny my students are, my church, etc. When I find good things, I like to share them. For the past year and a half, I’ve been borderline obsessed with Evernote, which has only gotten better [...]
It’s sort of crazy around here this afternoon so tomorrow’s post is going to go up tomorrow, when I (hopefully) have a chance to finish it. Still, I wanted to make sure I announced the winner of the Seventh Generation giveaway. The winner is Julie from A Case of the Runs! Congrats Julie! Thanks to [...]
Way back in 2008 I read an article in Time magazine about the environmental impact of meat and I reduced my consumption almost immediately. It seemed (and still seems) like such a simple way to make a positive impact on the planet, and my diet. Since then I’ve also been trying to buy produce that [...]
We have a very robust collection of herbs and spices. Our local food co-op has made it easy to purchase spices, in small or large quantities, for very reasonable prices. Many of the containers are not filled with their original contents-they’ve been saved and refilled. If you were to look through my entire spice drawer, [...]
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