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Myrtle's BBQ
Last Saturday our Grandma Myrtle hosted a BBQ. It started out with three couples and kept expanding until we had 16 people. Myrtle and I experienced a lot of joy anticipating the event. We talked about what to serve, who to invite, how to seat everyone, etc. We went shopping together to purchase all the…
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Scotter's 2nd Birthday Party
Yesterday, we celebrated Scotland’s birthday with our family away from family: Mary and Lydia, Jen and Cody, Claire, and Anne (or as Scotland calls her: Annie) and Brandon. They are all important people in Scotland’s life, his adopted aunts and uncles, cousins. When the night wrapped up and everyone left I felt overwhelmed by the…
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Interview Tour de West: Logan, UT – Part 2
The holiday featured plenty of playful moments. Becklyn is always keen for a laugh, as seen below featuring a stocking gift she received: The Big Kids Outing included “cleaning the sink” at Angie’s restaurant. Both sinks below were filled to overflowing with ice-cream, bananas, toppings and whipped cream. Thanks to Landen and Keiton’s resilience they…
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Bread bakers apprentice
My bread baking adventures continue. My first loaf of multi-grain hearth bread turned out okay. It wasn’t as lofty as I would have liked and I struggled transferring the loaf from the pan to the stone. The second attempt, a 100% whole wheat bread was not so good. It rose beautifully, was looking great but…
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Summer
Tonight, after coming home with bags of incredibly, fresh produce from my CAS, City Fresh I whipped together a Potato and Corn Salad that was delightful. The corn, was the best I’ve had in years. I purposefully picked the long skinny ears, knowing those would be less starchy. (I’m really not into starchy corn. Yuck!) They…
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Sour Dough Bread
I baked my first two loaves of sour dough bread today. (I’ve been in the process for three days now.) My friend, Janelle gave me a starter that has been kept alive in her family since the 1950’s. Considering how lax I was with the prefermenting stage I am pretty impressed with the results. The…
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City fresh, how I love thee!
I love my CAS. I don’t know why but picking those veggies off that card table, putting them in my self brought bag and bringing them home brings me joy every time. Today I grinned broadly knowing I was going to try bok choy for the first time. I could have bought it a hundred…
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Family Fun: Edgewater Park
After a pretty tough week, where I saw Tom not more than an hour every day, we enjoyed being able to spend the second half of yesterday together as a family. We tried the Mexican restaurant Villa y Zapata for the first time, and were hugely impressed. We’ll definitely be back. I wish I’d taken…
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Using modern conveniences
In response to my previous post about how to use modern conveniences to facilitate more healthful living, I had to share an experience I had yesterday. ALDI had their 5 lbs packages of fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts for $5.00 off. So I got 10lbs of chicken for around $5.00! But what to do with…
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Hmmm
There’s a move towards greater self-sufficiency, more “natural” ways of living, a move away from the industrial fast paced life to the “made from scratch,” homemade, slower life. I’ve recently scanned through “The Homemade Pantry,” “French Kids Eat Everything.” “Make the Bread, Buy the Butter” and read several blogs that encourage the same homemade approach…