Feed your family. Feed your soul.
If you’ve been following us recently then you’re familiar with the close of our successful Kickstarter campaign. It has propelled us forward as we busy ourselves with rewards for our backers and a new wave of large orders for Slow Cooker Spice Blends.
We’re finishing up the year with a fun and festive classic reinvention of Swiss fondue, using chocolate and liqueur. I’m back at home with my parents this New Year’s Eve and being a child of the ’70’s I managed to dig out and dust off my mum’s …read more
Home for the holidays, I’m transported to this vista of early eighteenth century Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England.* Over years we have wandered the landscaped Palace grounds striding towards its majestic and austere facade. Dithering pheasants get in our way and run all around awaiting their inevitable demise, sheep dully …read more
A cloudless sky, steel blue water and me with my girls on the beach is what “school’s out for summer” is all about.
Deliberating over the phone on what to cook for our final recipe of 2014, Meg cited our friend Dina at Bodyworks Fitness & Spa who was improvising with our Sweet and Spicy blend. “Dina is making spiced nuts in her slow cooker. They might be good …read more
Continuing our month of family traditions, Meg starts her Christmas morning by baking a sausage, egg and cheese strata.
It is a McKay tradition before Christmas to spend a weekend morning making and steaming a Christmas Pudding.
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
A warm pile of corn tortillas, leftover shredded meat or black beans, a jar of fresh locally made mango salsa and our endless supply of homemade hot sauce is all that’s needed to open the taco bar for dinner in our house. Once open, my kids …read more
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
Thursday last while Meg was airborne to Mumbai I caught a ride on the tailwind of her flight, to England. Meg’s trip is a long anticipated retreat in Pune in India with Frances Murchison of Mindfully Fed, and also a spice information gathering mission. My …read more
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
