This past Wednesday⏤more than 11 months after we initially ordered it  from BASCO⏤we finally got our new induction range. I meant to blog ab...

Our Ilve Range finally arrived in Portland, and it's the wrong f-ing color! It is gray , not green. I am not kidding. It is the worst p...

With no range in the kitchen, Jeff was motivated to pull our old camp cooker out of the shed. It was a lovely day to do some outdoor cooking...

Jeff and I have been depressed about the world situation right now. Really depressed. He responded productively by getting extremely active ...

Today was one of those amazing days where I got more done in the morning before 11AM than I usually get done in the entire day. I wish I had...

We had one of our more productive weekends this weekend. Saturday, as usual, we both had school until 4PM then we usually both spend the eve...

We have been canning and baking up a storm this weekend. We found a good deal on local apricots so we ended up buying 2 full boxes (about 30...

Dinner was wonderful and we really enjoyed our visit with friends. We went off to Scott and Pattie's house in Mountain View. And we were...

Jeff and I are hoping to go visit Oregon again next week, so I am spending this week working on my To Do list. Some of the tasks are fairly ...

This afternoon we got this week's CSA delivery. This week we got: chard, 2 kinds of lettuce, rutabagas, green garlic, carrots, new pota...

I mentioned quite a while ago that we had subscribed to an organic farm and we got our first delivery today! (The programs are called CSAs/C...

Anybody who knows me, knows I am not the cook in this house. Jeff is the cook and a good one; he makes beautiful, tasty food. But with him w...

I have been keeping so busy between school and the internship this week, I hardly know how it got to be Friday afternoon. I worked at my int...

We're having a really productive day today. Jeff went and picked the rest of the plums off the tree in the backyard (about two lunch siz...

One thing this too-hot weather is good for is solar cooking. Yesterday, Jeff made brownies and then asparagus for dinner. They were both yum...