Feed your family. Feed your soul.
As we share our favorite “comfort” meals in celebrating Hygge – I wanted to share mine from an earlier post! Enjoy… When I first ventured into slow cooking I spent years cooking meals you expect from a slow cooker – beef stew, soup, chili…
The Zen lab is busier than usual as we prepare a new series of 5 minute prep recipes for all of our spice blends.
The name “Silk Road Pumpkin Soup,” conjurs up images of ancient trading and movement of not only silk but other goods such as spices across the vast landmass of Eurasia and via circuitous sea routes.
In the final of our collaborative series with Michelle at Organa Wellness, we focus on Build: growing, developing, and achieving new goals, the third chapter of the program. Step 1 shares our weekly recipe, followed by Step 2 and a printable exercise from Michelle.
A traditional Chinese hot pot is a communal dining experience. Each diner selects, dips and cooks individual ingredients in a pot filled with flavored hot broth at the centre of the table. Once braised in the broth the fork full is plunged into a dipping sauce for a second layer of …read more
“It’s continuing traditions that are well-established for a reason…” “New World food is exciting, tasty, healthy, romantic, and possibly, easier on the earth” – Steve Sando’s thoughts on using beans indigenous to The Americas (Rancho Gordo Beans)Â
Having just emerged from the 4 day Windy City Gift Show in Chicago, we’re keeping things short, sweet and simple this week.
A cloudless sky, steel blue water and me with my girls on the beach is what “school’s out for summer” is all about.
“Recently there has been something of a vegetable boom. It started in the fifties with Elizabeth David, who championed vegetables in their own right, not just as adjuncts to meat.” I concur with Jane Grigson’s sentiments in the introduction to the first edition of her Vegetable …read more
I was free to putter around in my community garden last Sunday, on a scheduled but very relaxing “annual work day.” It was the perfect pairing of purging and planting. I’m committed to growing my own, organically, in support of Earth Day every day.
“Andersonville’s roots as a community extend well back into the 19th century, when immigrant Swedish farmers started moving north into what was then a distant suburb of Chicago.” – www.andersonville.org
Slow cooking aficionados will know that harder working cuts of meat – think shoulders, legs and butt, give optimum results when cooking low and slow.Â
