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 | Aug 1, 2022 | Be Simple, Come Home, Everyday Enchantments
Have you ever opened a book, heard the author’s voice as she speaks to you for the first time and thought: “I know her! We must have spent time in my kitchen together. Or…she must be reading my mind!”? It was just this way for me when I opened Tamar Adler’s An...
by Toni | Jun 16, 2022 | Be Simple, Fruits, Let's Eat
We eat a lot of oatmeal in our house. All winter long it is only McCann’s Irish Steel Cut Oats, cooked slow overnight in my cute Crockette. But in summer, I need a different approach to getting my oats—something cool and creamy and fast. So, from June to September, I...
by Toni | Apr 20, 2022 | Be Simple, Come Home, Live Green
At the end of the movie The Wizard of Oz, the Tin Man asks Dorothy what she has learned that will take her back home to Kansas, the only thing she’s wanted since falling from the sky into the magical land of Oz. Here’s her answer: “If I ever go looking for my...
by Toni | Jan 16, 2022 | Be Simple, Let's Eat, Live Green
If you have been reading along these nearly six years (Oh my!), you’ve come to expect the winter posts to feature at least a few recipes that rely on stored and frozen vegetables and meat. These are the lean months of the year, when gardens are dormant and grocery...
by Toni | Dec 20, 2021 | Be Simple, Let's Eat, Vegetables
One of my favorite winter greens are those cute little cabbages know as Brussel sprouts. They are easy to fix in a million ways and bring a real freshness to wintertime meals. They are a family favorite with us now, but that used to not be the case. Years ago when I...
