My first dahlia bloom unfurled this month, which means that summer is here in all her vibrant, cheerful glory. The explosion of flowers and veggies in the garden is well worth the constant wiping of sweat from my brow that comes with any visit...
Two posts in two weeks? Yep, I’m finally getting a bit of breathing room after the whirlwind of activity getting our Portland home ready for sale. And there is SO much that has happened over the past few months, so I will hop, skip,...
Well reader, this likely comes as no surprise since I’ve been writing about painting and packing and the building of the homestead, but we have officially put our Portland home on the market. This June marks a decade since we first moved into our...
It seems we’re due for a heat wave, so I’m coming in hot with a pleasantly lazy recipe that will preserve all the chive blossoms from your garden + the market before they wrinkle up in the dastardly sun. There’s some flavors I always...
My life these days is a blur of paint buckets, brushes, plaster, and packing. The inkling I had in my last post about the flurry of painting that was in store proved to be correct. And while I made these buns over two...
I’m sitting here typing with my first tan of the year and dirt on my brow. Yes, I’ve been hard at work in the garden planting flowers from the nursery to spruce up the place (it looked a bit barren after I dug up...
This past week Jeremy and I intended to go mushroom foraging at our favorite spot tucked away deep in the woods near the homestead. But contrary to the typical northwestern spring, we’ve had rays of glorious sunshine for days upon days, and the heat...
Well hello again dear reader. I’m writing you about something that I wish I knew more about early on in the design process, and that’s what bits of a home are expensive to design + build. I’m sharing this in hopes that if you...
Hello, friend. I’m squeaking this recipe in right before western Easter, in hopes that if you’re scrambling for a last-minute bright + springy treat, this coconut lemon curd cake could be the hail Mary (no pun intended) that you’re searching for. It’s got a...
Well hello again. Apologies for the several week lapse in posting, it’s been a wild few weeks packed with a flurry of activities, and as such I wasn’t able to make + shoot anything to share with you for a bit. But as the...
Parsnips are one of those vegetable that you tend to forget about. They look a bit like carrots that have been out of the sunlight too long—hiding indoors all winter long, stark and pale and haggard around the edges. But their flavor is wonderfully...
This morning I woke to the sound of freezing rain pelting against the glass skylight above our bed, and was reminded that we are still deep in the thralls of winter. Dreams of garden-fresh tomatoes be damned. But, we do have plenty of delicious...
