I’m known to make a peach cobbler on Labor Day weekend. There is something about a peach cobbler that both reminds me that it is the end of summer and makes me feel like summer is unending. How is that for a paradox? At this time each year the farm down the road has peaches…
keeping cool
Some good friends of ours, who moved to South Carolina this past March, drove back to our town to visit with friends and to pick up some of their belongings that were left behind. We were thrilled that they stayed at our home because we have missed them so much since they moved away. Our…
lemonade for everyone!
I discovered lemonade syrup two years ago when my family visited my Auntie Lynn’s house for a summer party. It was a long drive, so when we arrived, we instantly slipped into her cool, bubbly not-so-hot tub where Chick lounged until her skin was wrinkly and raisin-like. We were sufficiently relaxed, feeling perfectly in love…
table
I have been in total planning mode the past few days, which is why I haven’t posted as much as I have wanted to. Projects 1. recovering two thrifted chairs (I will have before and after shots) 2. sturdying an old stool and repainting with red milk paint (I will have before and after shots)…
eat & look book
This pumpkin, oatmeal, applesauce muffin is my new favorite muffin. You can sprinkle sugar in the raw on the top before baking or an oatmeal, butter, brown sugar topping. Pumpkin Applesauce Muffins based loosely on Jessica Seinfeld’s Deceptively Delicious recipe for “applesauce muffins” Ingredients: 3/4 cup of white flour 3/4 cup of wheat flour 1…
potato
We belong to a beautiful and fruitful CSA (community sustained agriculture) farm where, at the end of the fall, we went home with way more potatoes then we could possibly eat. So, we got crafty and made potato stamps. They will rot after a few days, which is the perfect excuse to become obsessed with…
