by Toni | Dec 18, 2022 | Come Home, Everyday Enchantments, Let's Eat, Sinful Sensations
Welcome to Midwinter; the December Solstice may mark the beginning of Winter for some, but for the ancients in the British Isles (and for some moderns like me, as well) the Winter Solstice begins the turning of the seasonal wheel toward Spring, when light, hope and...
by Toni | Dec 18, 2022 | Come Home, Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Meat Masterpieces
There are many ways to make shepherd’s pie, most of them quite humble since this was originally a peasant dish, not an aristocratic one. Traditional recipes use lamb (which I am doing here) and a white potato mash for topping. Yep…meat and potatoes, that’s about...
by Toni | Oct 13, 2022 | Be Simple, Come Home, Everyday Enchantments, Live Green
Once upon a time there was a fine lady named Alice, who was an expert seamstress. Alice had a beautiful daughter, very tall and slender with a thick braid of golden hair that swung in sassy fashion as she walked. Her daughter’s name was Mary Lynn, and she was about to...
by Toni | Oct 13, 2022 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
This is Ben. He is one of my favorite people at the Goshen Community Market. Ben runs Rumblin’ Ernie’s Farm, and he grows the biggest, sweetest carrots this side of the Mississippi. Not kidding. When Ben first showed up at my market with that steady supply of carrots,...
by Toni | Aug 3, 2022 | Farmer's Market, Let's Eat, Vegetables
I bet it is no surprise that one of my favorite ways to relax on days when it is too hot to be outside is to travel through my ever-growing library of cookbooks, chef biographies and eco farming articles. You too, huh? So the other particularly hot day, I was sitting...
