Feed your family. Feed your soul.
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
On one miserable, wet day in April, we celebrated Meg’s birthday. As a member of Kenilworth Garden Club, Meg’s sister Ann invited us to a presentation and lunch with James Farmer III. What greeted us inside was a perfect antidote to the grey day outside.
For our final week of food and gardens we’ve arrived in San Francisco. Good friends live here, so it’s peculiar that the reason we’re here is in part, because they are not. It’s nothing personal. While Katie and her family explore foreign shores we are …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.
Fresh picked peas and strawberries taken straight from our Community Garden are the perfect finger food right now for my young girls living in the city. As always, my mind is on expanding my culinary repertoire. So when the raspberry canes are giving up their ripe …read more
Last week I did my own first, self administered cleanse. Inspired by Meg and the benefits she feels from a Mindfully Fed seasonal cleanse gave me the curiosity to try. I was confident to figure out my own approach, sticking to all single whole food ingredients.
May seems unusually busy. We’ve shed our Winter skin and seem to be racing towards Summer at a rate of knots. Awash with school socials and graduations, field trips and fundraisers, it is also the month in which Everest was first conquered by Sir Edmund …read more
If you’ve been following us throughout April, it’s time for our finale for Autism Awareness Month. We worked hard to create a visual recipe format for non-readers using our chocolate cake, and build a library of techniques that we hope to share with you in …read more
We are debuting our visual Chocolate Cake recipe this week. Providing access to a more user friendly format for non-readers has been a key intention for the Zen of Slow Cooking. In the future we hope to produce one visual recipe a month.
We’ve shared our heart healthy recipes this month with the Chinese New Year celebrations. Since Dim Sum (those delightful bite sized morcels) translated literally means “Touch the Heart”, we’ve made our own little parcels of tasty goodness – steamed soy salmon wrapped in crunchy lettuce.
I was 8 months pregnant with our first daughter when my husband, Graham, had a health scare which revealed his high cholesterol. Not what you’re expecting as an outwardly healthy 30 something soon-to-be father, eagerly anticipating your new arrival.
When we lived in our French hideaway in the Gascony countryside, we started a Valentines tradition. In the post Christmas seasonal lull we start planning.
