CHEESESLAVE

Sunday morning Kate and I got up and I felt like doing something special for breakfast. So I made my favorite: Eggs Benedict.
I hadn’t made it in a while but you know what? It’s really not hard. And what a healthy and delicious breakfast! All those egg yolks and tons of butter. This is a [...]

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 my [...]

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 year. [...]

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 fresh, [...]

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 stains.

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.
What I really [...]

Ever since I discovered that I was hypothyroid and iodine deficient, I’ve been digging around on the internet, trying to find a connection between an underactive thyroid gland and iodine deficiency and low milk supply.
I did my best to breast feed Baby Kate but it was not easy. I had to start supplementing at just [...]

Most people give me a funny look when I tell them I feed Baby Kate liver every single day. I guess maybe they think I’m going overboard.
She gets 1/2 tsp of cod liver oil daily. In addition to that, she gets liver at lunch or dinner — or both. Usually chicken liver, sometimes cow’s liver, [...]