Today I am here to talk to you about shrubs. No, I am not talking about bushy green plants that grow out of the ground, I am talking about the tart, sweet, and fruity vinegar syrups that used to be added to water and...

I’ve had an amazing time trying out home preserving this past year. Before 2012, I’d never canned, pickled, or extracted anything; now I’ve tried my hand at all of those things, and they’ve actually all turned out pretty successfully, save for one grape jelly...

      When I was little, my mother used to take me and my brother to a mercantile shop situated in what looked like a giant old barn. The only things I can remember them selling were fancy sliced soaps and local fruits...

I recently made a bit of a gardening splurge purchase at Home Depot, bringing home a heavy kumquat bush weighed down with fruits. I wasn’t familiar with the kumquat until I moved to California, as Oregon’s climate is not very conducive to citrus-growing and...

I know it’s still aways until Saint Patrick’s Day, but I just love all the green everywhere during the month of March and thought I’d get started a little early with these cupcakes. I am obsessed with the vibrant green shade of these sprinkles,...

The weather here has been very back and forth lately. It was in the 80’s this past weekend, with hail a few days before that, and today it’s in the 50’s and raining again. But I don’t mind the weird weather so much because...

Me and the mister don’t really do anything too fancy for Valentine’s day, we might go out to dinner or a movie, but we don’t really do a big gift exchange. Sure, someday when we have money to throw at each other (yes, this...

Now that I have a lot of extra time on my hands, I’ve been able to get to work on some of the projects around my house and garden that I’ve been meaning to work on for a while but never realllllly got around...

I’ve been wanting to try my hand at making croissants for a long time now, but once I read about the length of the process of making them I decided to put it off for a time when I would have more….time. And now...

It is that time of year again, friends. Yes, the super bowl is upon us. I am not a huge sports person, as is evidenced by the fact that the last time I watched a football game I asked Jeremy what inning it was....

I’ve been needing some comfort lately, specifically because the show I work on’s first season is ending soon and I will beunemployedfunemployed(got to stay positive, right?….right.)in a few days. This is normal for the industry I work in, and *hopefully* I will be working...

 Something strange has been happening here in Southern California lately. The weather, our fair and constant friend in these parts, has seemed to turn against us. I awoke on a recent morning to find ice on my windshield, and that the frost had killed...