AWE = Art, Wellbeing and Edibles.
It’s been an incredible fall, brilliant leaves and sunny days hovering right around 70 degrees. Last week gave us the first drizzly gray day we’ve had in weeks and it was almost a relief—I can handle only so many perfectly cheery sunny days before I crave some good …
There is something about the slow cook that sweetens everyone. Roasted garlic becomes less sharp, deeper, sweeter, and in some ways more powerful of a flavor in dishes— a more enduring flavor. Roasting is also a way you can preserve garlic to extend its life. Maybe …
If I called this ice cream you wouldn’t even want to try it because you don’t have an ice cream maker or churn. It’s too thick to be called a smoothie. Whatever the name might be, here it is and it’s tasty as-is or could …
How do you learn about a culture? Travel to the region and wander around indulging in street food. Street-vendor food in Mexico like the carne asada tacos in Hermosillo and churros in Tepic shaped some of my greatest food memories ever and have influenced my food choices my …
“A single, ordinary person still can make a difference – and single, ordinary people are doing precisely that every day.” …
Creamy, silky AND healthy, the Alligator pear, aquacate, manzana del invierno, palta, or avocado, is one of those incredible fruits we should be getting down on our knees and giving thanks for every day. A Superstar. A Helper. Limes and avocados are two of the …
It’s late June so time for the willow weavers to converge on our town at the 2015 Willow Gathering: A North American Conference focused on the art of the Willow. People traveled from all over the U.S. and Canada to learn weaving techniques and enjoy each other’s …
It’s Spring and there is no getting away from recipes about spinach, kale, eggs, nettles, peas and asparagus…so just get used to it. Embrace the green. Green is good. There’s a lot of green activity going on right now by that greenifying chlorophyll, absorbing the blue and red …
Tis the month of spinach and greenery and our livers are thanking us for being drawn to these deep rich colors then serving them up for dinner. Right now the local spinach is delicate and young, you barely need to add anything. A side …
“These are the Best Days of our Lives” This calligraphy is what I wake up to in the morning and see before going to sleep every night. My friends Greg and Jenny brought it back from China and now it lives in …
Coffee lover that I am, I have to secretly admit I’ve been enjoying this dark liquid lately. That’s right, roasted chicory is carving a new spot in my heart. It has similar components to a coffee description–acidity, body, aroma, bitterness, sweetness, aftertaste–and a deep rich satisfaction that …
Many gardeners in these cold climates overwinter their parsnips in the ground, letting the back-and-forth thawing-and-cooling spring weather sweeten their starches into sugars. So when little else is local in early April of the upper Midwest…parsnips can be found. Related and similar to carrots (they look like an albino carrot), …
Here’s the deal…I don’t have a recipe. We came home to a maelstrom of paperwork and whatnot and I cannot get it together to cook anything other than squash, pintos and the last of the frozen catering leftovers. So instead here is a celebration …
It was a beautiful day in northern Wisconsin last Saturday for the 42nd American Birkebeiner marathon. We had a two day window on Friday and Saturday with temperatures in the teens —the days preceding and days after the race eked out highs of only …
I’m beginning to understand why people do this. A year ago I signed up for my first cross country ski race on a 12.5 kilometer classic-only course. Having started this sport as a not-so-young adult it was not an obvious trajectory for me …
A few more shots of ABR in Ironwood, Michigan. Datsa lotta wood. I forgot to bring my coffee cup out to the ski-in cabin the first night so I made it in a jar in the morning. The heavy cream went in …
The International Paralympic Committee’s Nordic Skiing World Championships, right here at Telemark Lodge in Cable, Wisconsin near our winter home-base. The paralympic equivalent to the World Cup, this is the championships for athletes from around the world competing in biathlon and cross country skiing. …
On my way to bed recently I happened to glance at this window…what an incredible creation! The streetlight gives the orange hue, but the morning sunlight would erase this temporary masterpiece so there was to be no waiting until daylight. I know that my …
Hmm… Crystal Caves in Naica, Mexico? An inside peek at the Ice Caves on Lake Superior? Tibetan quartz? Bolivian Salt crystals?? As the world turns… May you create the time for what matters most to you during this new Revolution of …
