Chocolate Equals Love!

choc dessert

We love chocolate! We love to get it, we love to give it! And remember, Valentine’s Day is one week from today.  During these somewhat gloomy winter days, what could be better than an easy and  delicious chocolate dessert to share with your loved ones?  Before we get to the recipe, I wanted to cover [...]

A More Humane Holiday Table

With holiday meals on everyone’s mind right now, I wanted to share some information with you about your main course.  It may be difficult for some of you, I know that many readers of this blog are vegetarians or vegans and I applaud you for your choice. If on the other hand, you are like [...]

Butterscotch Pumpkin Cookies

organic sugar-pumpkin-butter

The leaves have fallen along with the temperatures and now is the time to think about some holiday baking. Here’s a great seasonal cookie that will use up any leftover pumpkin you may still have hanging out in your refrigerator. Simply mash your cooked leftover pumpkin, you only need one cup for this recipe. It [...]

{Food and Gardening} An Ancient Harvest: Wild Rice

Wildricecooked

19th Century tribal women harvesting wild rice in the traditional manner — by S. Eastman During the month of September a harvest that has taken place for thousands of years, began again.  It was the harvest of wild rice. Generations of Native Americans have considered wild rice a spiritual food and as a sacred gift [...]

{Food and Gardening} The Joy of Native Plants

jewelweed, phlox, rose

As I step out the door into my backyard, I can feel a nip in the air on this late summer morning.   The sky is an unbelievably bright blue with a just a few small puffy clouds overhead.  This is one of those days we long for in the upper Midwest, pleasantly cool temperatures, no [...]