Fermentation is something I have just started to get into, so I was super-excited to review this new book, Mastering Fermentation: Recipes for Making and Cooking with Fermented Foods by Mary Karlin. This book is filled with delicious traditional recipes from all different cultures, paired with beautiful color photographs. “Fermentation improves digestibility, deactivates antinutrient compounds…and stimulates probiotic functions, which benefit…
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Four years ago right now, I was in labor. Labor is a strange thing. You can’t practice for it. If you’ve never experienced it, you can’t really prepare for it. You’re exhausted, excited, terrified, mesmerized, joyous, and about a million other emotions all tied together. And then the truly amazing part happens, after all of that, there’s an overwhelming calm…
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It was 8:30 pm. I wanted to started a sewing project for my daughter’s birthday, but I was thoroughly exhausted. I’m not an energy drink or coffee drinker, so I had to find something else to keep me awake. What about…dark chocolate ice cream?? Perfect! I looked through a number of recipes before coming up with my own. This was…
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My husband is a teacher and that is our primary income, which means 3 summer months with no real pay. I buy most of my food through farm orders, farmer’s markets, or Whole Foods, but with a really limited budget this month, I had to go to the regular grocery store, Publix. I was happy to see there were some…
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If you’re a loyal reader of my blog (thank you, by the way), you’ll probably remember this post about my terrifying drive to Cincinnati. While there, a friend took me to Sewn Studio, a great local fabric store. I was having one of those ‘carpe diem’ kinda moments, so I just bought whatever I liked, knowing I’d find something to…
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