Feed your family. Feed your soul.
“Don’t worry we can camp out in the backyard” – my famous last words as we watched the final vestiges of our long planned trip to Thailand slip away. With literally nowhere else to go, the prospect of an imminent lockdown staycation was all I …read more
I recently contributed to an online round up article for allthestuff.com by Minuca Elena on “How to organize a successful BBQ party”. I’ve updated it here to include our grilling recipe for Smoky BBQ marinaded Cauliflower Steaks.
On hot summer afternoons my mother would give me a nickel to get a treat and I would bike across the tracks to our favorite neighborhood ice cream parlor – Homer’s. Even today, whenever I dip my spoon into peach ice cream my mind travels back …read more
I never imagined, 29 years after my mother ran the Show of Summer (now part of the American Flower Show) at the Chicago Botanic Garden, that I would be on the Esplanade with Jane running our own show – the zen of slow cooking – at their …read more
Our month long tour of community garden initiatives concluded this week when Meg visited the dedicated garden space for the Julie and Michael Tracy Foundation (JMTF) Urban Garden Program. The purpose of Meg’s visit was to finalize the details for our cooking class for a …read more
I finished Jeanne Nolan’s memoir “From the Ground up.” It’s a fascinating narrative as Jeanne describes her departure from the North Shore of Chicago at age 17 in search of a life more closely connected to the earth and to detach from the trappings of …read more
