soup

In the new year we are often filled with grand plans and a resolve to Do Better — eat better, live better, better spend our money … I am not aspiring to many lofty goals this year, though I do have a few intentions:…

Thursday has become “soup for dinner night”, in part because I can make a pot of soup on a Wednesday while the big girl is at preschool. I set up my no knead bread — fortunately it’s a forgiving recipe as I sometimes let…

I wondered if I should even write up this recipe, given that it’s so very, very simple. Garlic, carrots, sweet potato, a pinch of salt, and water. But in the interest of preserving this very fleeting era of little childhood, I can’t help myself.…

Salisbury, Wiltshire, U.K., January 2017. Hi. Happy New Year over a month late. We’re just getting sorted after a lovely and whirlwind trip to Salisbury, England, to visit family and shiver delightfully over delicious cups of lattes and flat whites here and there, often…

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike. ~ John Muir (The Yosemite) Indian Summer is in full effect here in Northern California and as I…