Loves to cook, nest and grow! Inspired by simple recipes, craft and garden projects. Visit us at the Workshop to get inspired.
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My father's two-question cooking test:
1. Can you bake a soft chocolate chip cookie?
2. Can you grill a pink piece of steak?
Pass those and he'll try anything.
What's the dish that always wins at your table?
The dread is worse than the doing.
Roast the tomatoes. Make the quick pickles. Roll the herbs into butter and put it in the freezer.
November you will be so glad.
What are you preserving right now?
Happy 4th! A day filled with fireworks, parades, friends who are family and disco music at the bowl turns me into a dancing fool! #thepacific #4thofjuly #fireworks #feelingpariotic @ Pacific Palisades Beach instagram.com/p/BzhuOz1Jro_/…
4th of July has sprung in our garden. #santamonica #westcoast #thesearenothydrangeas @ Santa Monica, California instagram.com/p/BzeNhy3Jpdh/…
I wear orange today for myself and every victim of gun violence. I was shot in a drive by with a 38 in the back of my leg at the age of 22. Some wounds of mine have healed some never will. So I stand with those who… instagram.com/p/BycEVC7pMFR/…
Today is the day that both kids are free birds. School is official out for summer.So we celebrated with ice cream for breakfast. That is good parenting ....right?
Tonight some late night festive fun .... the… instagram.com/p/BycALHDJGnB/…
Almost better and this soup with the perfect hint of lemon is helping me get there.
Lemon-drop Chicken Soup with Rice
8 cups water
2 pounds skinless chicken thighs, with bones
1 onion,… instagram.com/p/Bvx3SfWFGzQ/…
We are on the home stretch of school days. This is usually the point where I can barely-bare to make one more single school lunch! I mean really!
From the complaints from my kids about… instagram.com/p/BvhpVQ9Fq9C/…
Who is eating popcorn and watching the hearing? We are glued here at the workshop. To sweeten the whole thing we are tossing in marshmallows, M and M's, peanuts and cinnamon.
Today is the day a lot of people are sitting in front of the TV. So might we suggest you jazz it up with M&M’s, peanuts and marshmallows or cinnamon and sugar or malted milk and sunflower… instagram.com/p/BuZOoWIlL0M/…
Everyone in my house is sick!
I am the last man standing.
So chicken soup for everyone in my home and some for my neighbors.
Cook it up.
Place it in a to-go container, attach a ladle to… instagram.com/p/BuXbd2olKOb/…
Just like in the movie “Alien”, you can give your pumpkin an inner-alien. This is an unexpected detail... youtu.be/yx-YXKNgBU4?a
Fishnet stockings and pumpkins? Two great things that go great together! Here is an easy way to glam up... youtu.be/vK-e1wX9hv8?a
Looking for new and fun ways to enjoy a glass of wine? This whimsical wine stopper fits the bill perfectly. youtu.be/SEuxNtxMJaM?a
The MALM dresser from IKEA is found in homes across the country, make it your own with a person this touch. youtu.be/CfFfYiM3WoI?a
You will not believe all the ways you can use ZIP TIES youtu.be/tX0V9npPwYU?a
A great way to make your herbal bounty last, is to create essential oils out of it. youtu.be/59b03CQigZo?a