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a bowl full of simple - zucchini

Zucchini

It’s that time of the summer when fresh produce is at it’s best.  Whether it comes from your garden, grocery store, local farmer’s market, or a generous neighbor, it’s zucchini season! A few easy favorites of ours for simple summer fare. Grilled Zucchini Grilling zucchini is one of my top summer side dishes.  If we […]

Free Time

This is what kids do when they have nothing but TIME … they build “go-carts” yes, that’s a piece of plywood, a beach chair, 2 scooter boards and a whole lot of bungee cord I love the protective gear big brother insisted that his passenger wear!   they pack a snack albeit, chocolate covered cherries, […]

BLT

The BLT may very well be my all-time favorite sandwich!  With tomatoes ripe off the vine and salty slices of bacon what could be better?  For dinner last week I put together some tasty sandwiches and included a family favorite, the A – avocado.  And why stop there, try it with some P – pesto, S […]

Top Ten | Summer Music Edition

  Remember these??? Oh, how I wish I still had some around to play, they would bring back a lot of memories.  I was going through my music library recently, need to make some CDs for an old stereo I have where I can’t use my iphone, etc. it was reminding me of the season in […]

Spicy Pickled Green Beans

In July, the green beans in my garden grow faster than we can eat them!  This year, in addition to blanching them for a side dish or salad, I decided to try pickling green beans.  I LOVE spicy pickled green beans in a tall spicy Bloody Mary!  I’ve never been much of a food preserver […]

Mama Bear

For the past two days, I’ve been walking around like a mama bear whose lost a cub.  I have been thinking about my oldest child whom we took to his first sleep away Sunday afternoon.  He was ecstatic!  The smell of the redwoods as the 3 of us approached the field for the first time […]

anniversaries

Today is our 10th wedding anniversary. we were married on a beautiful day in the Sierra Nevada. I put much of the wedding together myself on a crazy little budget, but it was lovely. no pintrest. no wedding coordinator. our photographer wasn’t even shooting digital yet! Since 2002, we’ve bought our family home, we’ve had […]