ENTER TO WIN! Learn to cook healthier meals for your family! Click here to enter to win Real Food for Rookies, a new online class — retail value $120, plus over $60 worth of discount coupons. Don’t miss out! contest ends this SATURDAY Sept 4th at midnight Pacific.Sunday morning Kate and I got up and [...]

The key word here is “possibly”. This morning I noticed something funny on my blog. When I clicked to read the comments on one of my posts, I saw something I had never seen before. It said “Possibly Related Posts” and there were some links to other posts. Only I didn’t recognize them. These weren’t [...]

Kate and I ate strawberries and sausage and leftover shepherd’s pie on the lawn at LA’s annual Festival of Books, the largest literary event in the country. I got Kate a few books, including the Spanish version of “Goodnight Moon” — “Buenos Noches, Luna”. This is something I plan to do with the kids every [...]

I’m relaxing in our “outdoor living room” in the backyard with a glass of Viognier. Seth is putting the baby down. It was hot today, but now it’s pleasantly cool. I can smell someone barbecuing in the distance. Tonight’s dinner will be easy. I got a dozen fresh scallops at the farmer’s market today. So [...]

I finally got some clotheslines rigged up in the backyard. I found some rope at the local hardware store — I just tied it to some trees. Nothing fancy — but it works. They had clothespins at the store, too. These are Kate’s cloth diapers and cloth wipes. The sun really does bleach out the [...]

I have more seedlings! Here are the plants that are sprouting so far: Chamomile Basil Cherokee Tomatoes Roma Tomatoes Calendula Wheee! This is so fun!

I grew up on Tex-Mex and I love it. Now Seth loves it too. Which would be great… EXCEPT… I still don’t have a source for decent tortillas and tortilla chips. Those sprouted grain tortillas are an okay choice (except they do have sprouted soybeans which is NOT good). But they don’t taste that good. [...]