When my little J was just starting to eat solid foods I felt like I didn’t have the time or energy to make my own baby food. I bought Beech Nut Pureed Veggies (Gerber had too many additives) and rice cereal and we mashed bananas. Then M arrived and I had learned to puree veggies […]

Need a great place to stop for ice cream, play and hang out with animals: Kilby Creamery. One of two places in Maryland that starts and completes the entire ice cream making process on site. They have a nice play set for the kids and animals for petting. Today, was a glorious day to be […]

We hit the Inner Harbor tonight for dinner with the kids and parents. It was late and we wondered into Pizzazz Tuscan Grille. By a stroke of luck we found that they support local, free range and other sustainable cooking practices. Wahoo! The food was yummy and the staff was attentive especially to our three-ring […]

Reduce, reuse and recycle. For a long time I was only focusing on the ‘recycle’ part but this earth love triangle doesn’t work without the first two. It isn’t enough to just recycle if you are not purchasing recycled products, first reducing your trash output and then reusing as much as possible before sending your […]

Barbara Kingsolver in her book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.), mentions that March is the hungry month. I had never thought that much about food before. It is really a recent thing that we don’t worry about having enough of a harvest to last through the winter. Goodness, many people these […]

Today was a shopping day. Buying local means that you do not get all your food in one place. I have this dream of opening a store, well maybe not a store, just a four walled space where farmers could bring their produce year round here locally. Really all my dreams are self serving, I […]

This fall, I just happened to catch the show Ellen on tv and she just happened to have the author Jonathan Safran Foer of the book Eating Animals there as her guest. First of all, the fact that I had the tv on AT ALL in the afternoon was a ‘pigs fly’ kind of moment […]

Changing the world one bite at a time. I was going to use that as my catch phrase. But, I googled it and lo and behold a gazillion other people already thought of it. But, thankfully, they were all thinking what I was thinking. You’ll see. I love food. I love to eat food. I […]

Ecclesiastes 1:9 (New International Version) 9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. There are many blogs out there that talk about food, slow food, local eating, eating with enviromental responsibility, saving money through food choices and the list goes on. […]