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    Banana Bread Roll-Ups

      I’ve been having way too much fun with this dehydrator. The latest adventure: banana bread fruit roll-ups. Over the last couple of months I’ve been changing my eating habits and cutting out a LOT of the wheat products. Not entirely, of course, because seriously if I ever give up homemade…

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    Yarn Day

    My knit group girls had our 3rd annual yarn day this morning. We started our day with wonderful breakfast and coffee at First Watch, then a trip to the nearest yarn shop. In snow. Apparently it doesn’t matter if we do it on MLK day or President’s day, we’re just going…

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    With a little dried lemon

    Back around the holidays my parents gifted me with my very own NESCO Snackmaster over the holidays, and my wonderful husband (who knew ahead of time what my parents were doing) gave me a book on dehydrating to go with it. I’ve wanted one for a while now, so of…

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    Garden dreaming

    Seed catalogs have arrived, the weather is unseasonably warm,  and I’m dreaming of getting back outside and working our little piece of land. There will be tomatoes and peppers and eggplant, oh yes!  And this year will also bring cucumbers – proper cucumbers, not those nasty pickling cucumbers – and…

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    Back to it.

    Well, we’re back to our usual non-holiday routines around here. We live quite the quiet, unexciting life. Work, dinner, watch TV (while I knit), and then go to bed to read and sleep. I’m not sure if we’re just really lame, or maybe that’s normal. It’s not like anyone wrote…