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Recipe: Ten Minute Salmon

The thought of cooking fish used to intimidate me big time.  How do you know when it is finished? What if it is still raw? What if it tastes, you know, like fish? Even worse, will my house smell like...

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Book Review: Petit Appetite

When I was beginning to think about feeding Adeline foods beyond breast milk or formula, I started to do some research online about how to know what to feed her and when.  I knew that I wanted our...

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Make your own baby food

Have you though about making your own baby food? Do you or did you make yours?Last week I posted a review of the Petit Appetit Cookbook, the book I have been using to help me make Adeline's food the...

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Recipe: Easy Coconut Curry

While living in California, there was a Thai restaurant that had the best coconut curry.  I have yet to find anywhere here that matches it, and few have come close but nothing is as good as the one in...

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Why Local? Wednesday: When Local Gets Old

I know it's Thursday now, but there were some scheduling issues that I didn't catch until today!  If you had a post to link this week, please feel free to do so as usual! While talking to a friend...

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How to cut an avocado

While there may be more than one way to peel a potato, I am going to show you my favorite way to slice an avocado.  Now before you go and think I'm insulting your intelligence, please know that this...

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Farm fresh eggs and a giveaway link

Aren't these eggs beautiful?!  I love that some are blue.  I picked these up at the market on Saturday, which was really a blast.  We have friends who sell at the Saturday Market, so Adeline and I...

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Balsamic Vinegraitte the French way

When I was living in France, the first family I lived with made the most delicious foods.  My host dad would make a spaghetti sauce that simmered on the stove for hours, taunting me until dinner time...

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It's your turn to add your own Why Local? Wednesday post!

Tomorrow is Wednesday, and you know what that means!Grab the button and include your own "Why Local? Wednesday" post.  This can be anything from your own story of buying local foods to a local...

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Why Local? Wednesday: Join a local buying club

Walking down the steps into the church basement, I wasn't really sure what to expect.  In my mind, people who joined local buying clubs were people very different from me.  I won't get into the...

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Louisville Restaurant Spotlight: Bistro 301

Louisville is a city well-stocked with culinary pleasures of all kinds.  The choices downtown are a mix of well-known chain restaurants and local treasures such as Bistro 301.  One of the great things...

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Louisville restaurant review: North End Cafe

One of the local restaurants Brandon and I return to time and again is North End Cafe in the Clifton district of Louisville.  With an emphasis on local and seasonal foods, this is not your average...

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Why Local? Wednesday: Book Review, Bringing It to the Table

Late last year I walked into our local book store to see a stack of Wendell Berry's newest book, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food, and a few others being laid out for display.  I noticed...

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Product Review: Munchkin Fresh Food Feeder

Have you all seen these Munchkin Fresh Food Feeders?  I would like to personally thank whoever invented this...some harried parent must have figured that if they could give their child a frozen mango...

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Still here!

What a total whirl wind of a week it has been!  Between planning a big meeting at work, helping my hubby prep to officiate his brother's wedding, packing for a vacation did you know that one child will...

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From Standard Canadian Diet to Specific Carbohydrate Diet

Special Thanks to Kat from SCDKat who gladly agreed to write a guest while I'm taking some time off!  I really enjoyed reading this post when Kat originally sent it to me.  She talks about her change...

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Hot, Fresh, and Latin

Suzannah from So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter brings the guest post today.  She shares a recipe for Chimchurri which utilizes some of the herbs that abound in many gardens this time of year.  If you...

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Article 7

I'm still here. My blog is not dead! The summer heat zapped any desire I had to cook. My hubby and are aren't huge fans of two months of cold dinners, so my time in the kitchen has been minimal while...

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Perfectly Sweet Strawberry Lemonade from scratch

I am pretty sure that if there were such a thing as perfect drink, lemonade would be a top contender.  I love that it can be made with some many various options: sweet, sour, spiked or...

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Recipe: Southwest Pot Pie

When you cook, do you follow recipes? I do. sort of. kind of. I mean, I like to look at them and then figure out what I actually remembered to buy last time I was at the grocery store, and go from...

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