For the last year, I’ve eaten oatmeal for breakfast pretty much every day. I love it with fruit and almonds and cinnamon and a splash of milk. Yum! But recently, I switched up my eating schedule and bam! No more breakfast, which kind of meant no more oatmeal (or at…

In a stroke of genius, John suggested using the roasted garlic and herb no-knead bread I made yesterday as the base for some yummy bruschetta. Here is the result: Yes. That’s really my lunch. So easy! He just mixed fresh diced tomato (from our friends at Scenic View Orchards) with…

When I decided to make my life about making things instead of thinking things, it was inevitable that I would eventually arrive at baking. Honestly, I’m pretty obsessed with food. I don’t cook often (one of the perks of being married to a retired chef), but John doesn’t really bake…

My kitty boy is basically the handsomest, and he knows it. Such a cutie Kemura Saisho Ototto (so named by my anime-obsessed teen) doesn’t come for pets very often. But when he does, look out, because he’s a purr box. Like our two dogs and our other cat, Capitano, Saisho…

Gentle reader, meet our long-awaited gardenia blossom. ❤️ She took her sweet time, but here she is.