Feed your family. Feed your soul.
We’re fully embracing the holiday season and between the requisite quarrels over who gets to measure the flour first to how many times they each have licked the spoon, my vision for a perfectly orchestrated holiday cookie baking bonanza last weekend with my girls has now …read more
The smell of sizzling bacon wafting up the stairs is enough to get any member of my family leaping from their beds in the morning without hesitation. The salty, savory slices don’t last long and I usually end up short changed with just the scraps to …read more
When I met The Date Lady, Colleen Sundlie, at the Specialty Food Association e-commerce forum last month, my mind immediately focused on the versatility of her product as a sugar alternative in our recipes.
Founded in 2007, the Ferrer Foundation has a mission – “Our mission is to inspire peace and hope for children in underserved Chicago communities.”… ” Focusing on, but not limited to children of incarcerated parents..”
It’s almost 2 years since we took our debut whole spice infusion, Moroccan Tagine, to Anthropologie in Highland Park for a wellness event. At the same event we also met our amazing photographer Kerri Sherman and formed a friendship that would bring our spice blends …read more
Fueling up for a long day can be a chore for me in the early morning, especially in Winter when I dread stepping out of bed before the sun comes up. Coffee dominates my routine, but my girls treat breakfast with all the pomp of fine …read more
Continuing our month of family traditions, Meg starts her Christmas morning by baking a sausage, egg and cheese strata.
Until recently I had no idea what a Latke Party was. I had just finished creating our Winter Vegetable, Barley & Lentil soup for the Jewish holidays when an invitation, to join friends in lighting their Menorah and to share in a latke dinner to …read more
“You can make bread in a slow cooker?” they say, eyebrows raised, as we lift the lid off the slow cooker.
Our summer took an unexpected twist recently. What should have been an annual two week trip to the UK turned into a month long extended stay, due to an outage of the US Passport and Visa system, stranding tens of thousands of people worldwide including my …read more
Far from putting away my slow cooker this summer, I’m using it regularly so that I can spend time outside of my working hours doing fun things with my girls.
Some months ago our friend Susan Kelsey, the city’s Economic Development Coordinator who started the incubator program in Lake Forest, knowing that we were trying hard to emulsify our zen spice and blog concepts, urged us to ‘get moving” on our product in time for the Lake …read more
