Tomorrow is the big <3 day and I like to make something special for the Valentines in my life. This year, I am sharing my recipe for Black Bean Brownies, which I made and cut into heart shapes for each…
One of the holiday traditions in our family is to bake Christmas cookies together. Each December, we pull out our cookie recipes and pick out our favorites, gather and shop for the ingredients, turn up the Christmas music, and get…
When we have a family dinner or get-together, we all like to contribute something to the menu. My grandmother often volunteers to make or bring a dessert (she’s got quite a sweet tooth!). At one family dinner, she showed up…
Several years ago, when Joe was really into learning about permaculture and increasing the productivity of our little woodland homestead, he purchased about 30 fruit trees and bushes from an online nursery to add to our landscaping. We spent…
I know this is a little late for Easter candy but homemade chocolate desserts really never go out of season, do they? Not in our house! I definitely have a sweet tooth and try to have at least one homemade…
Winter blues. I think we all get them. The long, dark nights. The cold temperatures. The snow and ice. At least that’s what happens here in the Northeast. Maybe if we lived in a tropical climate where the temperatures…