The Choconut Banagurt: Eli's favorite smoothie

This combo has been doing it for Eli lately: one cup milk scoop plain yogurt scoop chunky peanut butter one banana two ice cubes squirt of chocolate syrup I forgive the chocolate syrup because, well, I’m scarfing back the dark chocolate all day long, so I...

Yes to carrots!

Hurray! There’s nothing like first food, I tell ya. Last night, after Zuzu grabbed at everything on Dave’s dinner plate, we finally decided that maybe we should just feed the poor girl some solid food. She downed an entire jar of carrots, mostly by feeding...

Why exactly should I be buying organic milk?

Ok, so I missed the Organic Milk Memo of 2007/2008. Maybe it was disguised as junk mail and I recycled it. But it seems like everyone but me is buying organic milk, and is kind of militant about it. Why? I mean, I get the point of organic food, sure. But why is milk...

Holiday Cookie List: What are you all making?

Here is my list for holiday stuff this year. It seems a little lacking, but also, four things are plenty. Peanut peanut butter cookies, from The Good Cookie by Tish Boyle, which are already made and waiting in the freezer. Chocolate pecan thumbprints, also from The...

Your Daily Pie

Family legend has it that my aunt made my uncle a pie every day when they were first married. Also, my mom has a friend who makes pie daily, and also makes the world’s best coffee, and her husband is a solo logger who comes home every day from chopping down...