Recipe—Irish Soda Bread Scones

Hey folks. The last 12 months have been a thing, huh? My motivation to blog has been near zero, but I’m surfacing for a moment to share a wonderful recipe just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day. I hope you are all well and doing the best you can. We’ve been baking a lot here…

Recipe–Dairy-Free Sourdough English Muffins

It's been a rough few weeks here. We lost my mother to cancer, and it took a lot out of me and my family. I hope you can forgive me for not posting. Life is returning to normal...well, a new normal, anyway. We still stay mostly at home, but home is now a self-care paradise…

What I’m Doing to Stay Sane and Healthy While Stuck at Home

Its has been nearly two months since I began winding down my normal life. Well before my state (New Jersey) ordered us to stay at home except for essential travel and shuttered all non-essential businesses, I had already begun to take steps to protect myself and my family from the growing threat of the pandemic,…

Recipe–Dairy-Free Banana Bread

The longer the need to stay at home drags on, the more I find myself returning to my old homesteading ways. I'm baking a lot, even tackling sourdough bread for the first time. And with every trip to the grocery store bringing a risk of exposure to the Covid-19 virus that is spreading my state,…

Recipe–Vegan Vodka Sauce

Here's a little recipe that uses mostly pantry supplies to make a really awesome pasta topping. We whipped it up to put on some homemade gnocchi on Easter Sunday. The gnocchi followed a traditional Tuscan recipe published recently by Travel+Leisure, and so it wasn't fully vegan because it included an egg, but the whole dish…