Feed your family. Feed your soul.
As many of you know, as a young mother I was faced with some difficult years. Beyond a series of successive corporate moves for my husband, one of my children was diagnosed (at the age of 2) with a complicated speech and language disorder. At that time …read more
Habit: a settled or regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.
My parents have arrived just in time to take control and look after the kids while I head off to the Specialty Food Association Winter Fancy Food show at the Moscone Center, San Francisco from 19th – 21st January. Their welcome dinner? Instant Pot Venison …read more
In early November, out of the blue I received a text from my dear friend, Susan asking me, “Do you want to go skiing next month?”
What better way to kick off Christmas lunch this year than with seasonal Winter soup goodness to unite us around the Christmas dinner table.
“I am constantly telling my own story to myself, and these days that’s about all the narrative flow I can handle.” ― Andrew Clements Last January, Steve and I decided to spend each Thursday night studying Buddhist philosophy with our friend, Carl Jerome. We spent the …read more
Keto friendly curried cauliflower coconut soup for those chilly nights
For the past 7 years (each January) I have carved out time to enjoy a period of “mindful” eating It’s not about “dieting or cleansing”, rather it offers me space for observation as I begin the new year. It involves a commitment to a mindful …read more
One of my earliest memories in developing our business was the afternoon I spent sitting in the warm sunshine on my deck reading a book about spices. A single sentence jumped off the page. “Over long slow cooking whole spies release their essential oils”…in that …read more
“Plant Based Eating – this is a movement, not a trend” – Michele Simon. Summer Fancy Food Show NYC, June 2019
I did not know that Italian Beef was a thing at all until I lived in Chicago. It quickly became one of my favorite home cooked easy dinner fixes. There are a plethora of restaurants such as Al’s, Tony’s, Roma’s, and Mr Beef all devoted …read more
If you follow our blog, you’ll know I was born in the 1960’s into a family where nightly meals were a ritual with music, conversation and candlelight – we did not dine and dash. Memories of those evenings always bring me back to a place …read more
