Kitchen & Cooking


I cook therefore I am ~ Kitchen series introduction

I cook therefore I am ~ Kitchen series introduction

Generally, I don't write a lot about food on my blog but I'm going to explore the topic in a series.

A foodie birthday

A foodie birthday

It was Laurent's birthday today. And I recall that a couple days ago I said I wasn't blogging till next month, oh well. I have to share these photos and thoughts from the day. I suffer from "if I don't write about it, it didn't really happen". The day was ...

Garlic, the medicine in your kitchen

Garlic, the medicine in your kitchen

I was hurtin' earlier this week. Thanks to good old fashioned rest, prayers, garlic and heavy doses of vitamin C I'm on the mend. No doubt most of you have heard or read the wonders of garlic. I'm not going to go into all the great evidence that points to ...

Indoor Sunshine

Indoor Sunshine

I'm such a fair weather photographer. When the days get really cold and really snowy (most of the winter, or so it seems) I'm largely indoors. But in my defense, it's not totally my fault that I'm such a wimp about taking my camera outside, I do live in Maine ...

Gluten Free Kinda, Sorta

Gluten Free Kinda, Sorta

We've been a largely gluten free household for a few years. A couple years ago we got a super-duper expensive bread machine that could make 100% whole wheat loaves. I was in bread making heaven. No more door stopper loaves from the oven. We started to eat a lot of ...

It's all good ~ Chocolate Truffles

It's all good ~ Chocolate Truffles

We spent Saturday night with friends and during the visit our friend Myke asked me to start posting more recipes. So I told him, like a good friend would, fat chance. Although I have a Vegan Kitchen tag I rarely post recipes for a couple reasons. Most of our meals ...

Oven Roasted Chestnuts

Oven Roasted Chestnuts

I'm not a Christmas baker. But I miss warm goodness coming from the oven. So I was pleased to roast chestnuts this week with the kids. This time around I actually looked up directions on-line so we didn't have chestnuts exploding in the oven like last year. I think the ...