on ginger bugs & ginger sodas

A friend of mine shared some bottles of her homemade ginger soda with us earlier this summer - and I fell in love! Those bottles did no t ...

black-eyed pea salsa love

At our family Christmas celebration my sister and her family arrived bearing, among many other wonderful things, this delicious black-eyed ...

aronia harvest

When we first moved onto the farm and began to landscape, Clay planted (among many, many other things) a choke berry bush behind the mailbo...

picking persimmons

Last Sunday we borrowed the family farm truck and went persimmon picking. This year there seemed to be an extra abundant harvest....

gingerbread

We tried a very simple take on the gingerbread nativity idea this year. I used this recipe for the actual gingerbread pieces: 6 cups...

the big zero-one

Our youngest celebrated her one year birthday last weekend.   Born last year the day after thanksgiving.  Thanksgiving ti...

muffins

My sister shared a fabulous muffin recipe with me a while ago. They have now become a staple in our house and we eat them for breakfast, wi...

sweet hearts

Valentine's Day is pretty simple around our house. But it's still a good excuse to indulge in some treats and remember the original ...

santa lucia

Last year I posted about St. Nicholas Day . We celebrated that again this year, although in a slightly abbreviated fashion - turns out I am ...