Have you ever made oven dried / roasted tomatoes? Ohmyheavens, it’s time to talk about how to make your own. I have a huge bounty of ripe garden tomatoes and not enough time to make my favorite salsa recipe, so I’m doing the next best thing: I’m making oven dried tomatoes with olive oil and sea salt. It’s the easiest possible way to utilize your fresh garden stock while pimping your pantry for the Winter. And the dividends are…
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My life has been wall-to-wall Malala Yousafzai over the last few weeks, and I couldn’t be more grateful. Do you know about Malala? Certainly you saw media coverage of her in 2012 when she was shot in the head by the Taliban in her home country of Pakistan on her way to school, for speaking out in favor of girls being educated, in direct defiance to the Taliban. She was 15 years old. Malala made a phenomenal recovery and now…
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A good book is the cure to all ills in the world, I genuinely believe that. I’m always reading something, and since I discovered Overdrive, an app that lets you check out books through your local library, but online, my world has opened right on up. With my Kindle I’m listening to between 3-5 books a week and it’s the very best. I’m listening to / reading all the awesome books I haven’t had time to read over the…
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Learning how to clean cast iron seemed like a daunting task for me before I knew all the hoodoo-voodoo tricks, but I have to be honest: it’s one of the easiest things in the world to clean. Especially if you do it my way, which only uses TWO ingredients, both of them natural! Gotta love that. We have two major pieces of cast iron in my house: a cast iron skillet we use every day, and a cast iron wood…
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This month’s Netflix must see is . . . Narcos. OH MY GOSH. Are you watching? Have you gotten a Netflix subscription yet? I hope so, because every month we have so many of the shows to talk about. So many. The first month of this (relatively new) ‘What to watch on Netflix‘ monthly series, we talked about Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Go watch it immediately if you haven’t already. Tina Fey can be my girl boss / best friend /…
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This summer we had the unique opportunity to spend two months in the Boston, Massachusetts area. While there we tried to squeeze as much out of our time on the East Coast as possible. Our first weekend exploration adventure began in a quaint town just 30 minutes from where we were staying in Andover, MA. If you’re driving from Boston, it’s only 50 minutes. Newburyport is absolutely darling. If you’re looking for boutique shops, homemade ice cream, gelato, strolling down streets…
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Okay, so I took a summer vacation off of everything, including blogging, and blogging about organizing. But I’m back and there’s so much more organizing to do to get all of our houses in order, so let’s get started! If you’re just getting started on this organizing project, here’s the drill: I’m helping you get your house organized, one week at a time. Sometimes we take breaks, and sometimes we organize two weeks in a row. The main thing is…
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September 11, 2001 is a date that is etched in every American’s mind. Most of us can remember exactly where we were when we heard the news that two planes crashed into the Twin Towers. I know I certainly can. It was a day that brought fear around one of the greatest joys in life…travel. My husband and I were in transit on 9/11. It was our second anniversary, and we were traveling with a group of friends to a…
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Movie to watch on Netflix this week: To Kill A Mockingbird. It’s that time of the month again, when we talk about what you NEED to be watching on Netflix right this very second. So far in this series we’ve talked about Tina Fey’s most recent T.V. project, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Jon Stewart’s directorial debut Rosewater, the BBC’s Luther and now To Kill A Mockingbird. To Kill A Mockingbird just popped up as newly added to Netflix, and…
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