The local small town grocery store has dramatically expanded, actually allowing for decent meal preparation without a drive into town for produce.  Tonight’s dinner was broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, snow peas and bok choy stir fried in an orange-ginger-soy sauce over jasmine rice. I sauteed chicken for those of us who eat it.  Pleasantly, the meal [...]

I also managed to come home with about twice as much pumpkin flax granola as I’d intended today. I like pumpkin flax granola. I do not, however, see any way we’d have eaten the 12 or so cups of granola that ended up in our bag (thank you overly enthusiastic middle child). I used Ina’s [...]

I bought vanilla beans at the health food store today. Okay, perhaps I went a bit crazy buying vanilla beans. I should have checked the price before I did this, but such is life. I have homemade vanilla extract started in a dark kitchen cupboard. I combined  8 vanilla beans with about 2 1/2 cups [...]