grilled green beans & peaches with mint

grilled green beans & peaches with mint

This blog was originally posted on July 24, 2013, but I updated it with a couple recipe tweaks as well as some new photography. Enjoy!  It’s been a hot one in Boise this summer. Days upon days of triple digit heat and as much as I love to cook, that love is...
roasted beets with salted yogurt

roasted beets with salted yogurt

My dad is in his late 80’s and still grows a garden big enough to feed a small third world nation. Everyone tells him that he should cut back. Make the garden smaller. Grow less. Spend more time relaxing and less time planting, and harvesting, and weeding. My...
free standing garden trellis

free standing garden trellis

When I was dreaming of the alley project and an alley lined by edible vertical gardens, fruit trees were an integral part of that vision. I’d always thought espaliered trees were very cool but had been a bit intimidated. Sometimes you just have to jump in with...
breakfast tostada

breakfast tostada

The weekend is in sight and since my last post was about the advantages of having breakfast at home, let’s run with another idea of something that feels like you’re at a restaurant with all the benefits of still being in your PJs. I like breakfast burritos...
having a ball – concrete landscaping spheres

having a ball – concrete landscaping spheres

My husband and I are stalking a house a few blocks away. We are always finding reasons to add it to our route even though it’s out of the way of most anywhere we go. There’s all kinds of things to admire there, from the landscaping to the pool area that we...