Feed your family. Feed your soul.
The Margaret Fulton Crock Pot Cookbook 1982 edition is as you would expect from the early 1980’s. I removed it’s external cover to reveal a bare brown book with a funky white font. Fulton is a British born Australian food writer who brought global dishes into the homes …read more
Flour Bakery carries the tagline “make life sweeter…. eat dessert first!” Well I wasn’t so sure about that but was certain that my love for a freshly baked loaf of bread and sweet pastries at breakfast would not die.
Continuing our month of family traditions, Meg starts her Christmas morning by baking a sausage, egg and cheese strata.
“You can make bread in a slow cooker?” they say, eyebrows raised, as we lift the lid off the slow cooker.
This week is all about tomatoes and our upcoming demonstration at Elawa Farm in Lake Forest to showcase our Marinara blend which we launched earlier this summer.
When I arrived in Yorkshire earlier this month, we were greeted by an unusually warm, settled and balmy stretch of weather. The gift this weather gave us was being able to spend all of our time in my parents’ garden, admiring the view of the …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.
Following on from our introduction to the New Year post Namaste, this week we are honoring our friend Susan Kelsey at the City of Lake Forest Business Accelerator.
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
My journey as an ex-pat has encountered a few bumps along the road. Consumed by the excitement of our adventure in America I was initially swept along and kept afloat by the momentum of the move. I didn’t have time to miss much at first …read more
Last week Meg talked about her recent move in “Lighten Your Load.” Both Meg and I have relocated states, countries and continents. We agree that making the decision to start organizing is often the biggest hurdle. So if you’re looking to get over the inertia and …read more
I like opposites, the hottest summers against the coldest winters, city living so long as we have a rural retreat, and so leaving behind the concrete and straight lines of our Chicago landscape is easy but then so is returning.
