Monthly Archives: October 2013

My Favorite Three-Bean Chili

Today we’re talking chili, and I’m taking it pretty seriously. Most people I know have a very specific chili preference. Sure we may like to walk down a chili buffet line at a cook off and get a taste dozens of varieties. But I’m pretty sure that all of us deep down have a favorite […]

Random Acts of Foodness

Here’s this week’s dose of good news about food. We’re in the last few days of Fair Trade Month. Here are 5 sweet ways to support and keep up with fashion fair trade companies by reading Grace’s Fair Trade Friday updates on her blog. Speaking of fair trade, we just discovered Wild Ophelia chocolates this week. […]

Simple Saturday: Indoor S’mores

Last week whilst celebrating my husband and my 1.5-year wedding anniversary, we came up with a genius plan. A plan to make Indoor S’mores. It was rainy, cold and dark by dessert time, so I knew that I had to find a way to get some marshmallows perfectly toasted and crammed in between dark chocolate […]

Butternut Squash Farro Salad

A few weeks ago I got the privilege of having to take a day off of work. It was my last day to use my last personal day before it disappeared, so I put the day off on the calendar and started planning/fighting the urge to plan a million things to do with my free […]

Carrot Cupcakes

My grandmother always told me to eat my carrots so I would have good eyesight. And I gulped down my mom’s tender, savory carrots in our Sunday roast and hoped that I wouldn’t be like everyone else in my family and have to get glasses. And then in seventh grade, I took the vision test […]