Katie’s Balsamic Chicken
The second installment from our favorite cookbook and blog authors comes from Katie Morford of Moms Kitchen Handbook.
The second installment from our favorite cookbook and blog authors comes from Katie Morford of Moms Kitchen Handbook.
Fun and unexpected – a summary of last weekend’s camping at Devil’s Lake, WI. The unexpected came in the form of Saturday night dinner of spear fished bass straight from the lake. We also hadn’t bargained for Timber Rattlesnake sightings either. The boys filleted the fish while sitting …read more
Mulligatawny Soup, the first in our trio of recipes from the Midwest Palliative & Hospice Care Center cookbook this month, was submitted by Lila Bondy.
The spotlight this week is on my store cupboard hero, garlic. Garlic’s health benefits come in many guises from preventative and treatment of heart disease and the common cold to regulating cholesterol levels while reducing high blood pressure and strengthening the immune system.
This week we took flight on our latest journey into retail at Andersonville Galleria. Tucked away in “foodie corner” on the second floor our shop is compact and bijou, just large enough to share a slice of Zen.
I arrive home from work: the dishwasher needs emptying, there’s a mountain of washing up left from breakfast and the trash and recycling need taking out in the cold and snow…..where to begin? Thankfully I left a Slow Cooker Cassoulet bubbling for dinner! I shared …read more
This week I finally got back into my own kitchen after our extended trip abroad. I missed our routines around breakfast: my morning pot of fresh brewed coffee on the table, lunch – being creative with leftovers, and dinner – the pleasure of chopping onions …read more
Each summer Meg and I go in different directions for at least 2 weeks, and end up in vastly different time zones, so there’s always a lot of preparation to provide “padding” around our fixed monthly commitments writing the blog, spice blending and all our …read more
In the third installment of our kitchen skills this week we share how to use your microplane grater for making a very simple 5 ingredient recipe of Vietnamese origin.
Last week we shared some of John des Rosiers kitchen skills for the home cook from his professional kitchen at Inovasi. Meg wanted some tips to help become a more functional cook, since most of us never receive any formal training. I admitted that I …read more
Our last, but by no means least shout out this month goes to Patty Charhut and her son Nick, with a posthumous recognition to Patty’s mom Suzanne Wilson Sheehan. It’s another family affair and reflects how our business is committed to not only being “nourishing” …read more
This year in our Chicago home we’re celebrating with my temporarily transplanted Mother-In-Law, who at the age of 83 “never thought I would ever come to America, it’s marvellous.”