Hey – it’s time for a quickie. I am squeezing this post in because I just made the most delicious vegetarian gravy I’ve ever tasted and had to share. Out of all the traditional foods we consume over the holidays, gravy is right up there…

Hey you. Yeah, you. You’re still cooking with olive oil, aren’t you? Yup. Thought so. I am sure you’ve heard the news that this is a bad idea, but you’re not sure why so you just keep doing it. Sounds familiar. Sounds like me. For…

We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Denmark. This makes me a little sad since I am always game to get together with family, eat like a maniac, and celebrate the abundance that is my life. Well, never mind that – I can make a ridiculously luxurious…

Even in the thick of Los Angeles, I can feel the weather changing. This autumn has been strange for me. I am not walking through the fire-coloured forests of Ontario, or biking in spitting rain under steel-gray skies in Denmark. Nope. I am in sunny…

To Do List: #1 – Get a goat. Seriously. Those four-legged, milk-giving wonders sure have worked their way into my heart. After spending morning after delightful morning feeding, grooming, and of course milking them, I have fallen into a total goat bliss-out. All I want…

Autumn is my clandestine lover. It’s true that summer is the reliable, constant, and deeply warming season that I look forward to most in the darkness of winter. But fall is full of secrets, it is mysterious and unpredictable, making those last dreamy-hot days with…

I realized something pretty major the other day: I have never eaten an artichoke before. Yeah, I know. How is that even possible? Not sure. This occurred to me, in fact, while I was driving through a town called Castroville – the self-proclaimed “artichoke capital…

Oh dear friends, it is so good to be back! And if you could only see where I have ended up – a place worthy to be called a Sarah B-style paradise. Tee hee. I am on farm in northern Califonia wwoofing for the next…