Apple-Cinnamon Doughnuts

14 Nov 11 by | 1 Comment | 145 view(s)
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Our family (starting with Tim’s parents and maybe even before) holds hands and sings a prayer before dinner. (So consider yourself warned if you ever join us for dinner.) Perhaps the most beloved song is the one we call “Johnny Appleseed”. The tradition is that the youngest member of the family is given the opportunity to solo on the word appleseed. Well, back in 2004, as Oakley was still learning the song, the following was our version…

All: Oh, the Lord is good to me
All: And so I thank the Lord
All: For giving me the things I need
All: The sun, the rain, and the…
Aspen (then almost 4 years old): Say ‘apple’, Oakley
Oakley (then almost 2 years old): Apple!
Aspen: Say ‘seed’, Oakley
Oakley: Seed!
Aspen: The Lord is good to me.
Oakley: Amen

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Chocolate Wafers (Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies)

21 Apr 11 by | 1 Comment | 567 view(s)
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There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my daughter, though some days I’m louder about other stuff so it’s easy to miss that. – Brian Andreas from Storypeople

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Cheese Bread

14 Mar 11 by | 1 Comment | 124 view(s)
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When I picked up my youngest from preschool the other day, she was clearly troubled. You see, for lunch she had brought some homemade cheese bread and proudly showed it to her friends. However, X (our own He-Who-Must-Not- Be-Named) insisted that it wasn’t cheese bread. It couldn’t be cheese bread. His 5-year-old logic: it was white. Cheese is yellow. Therefore, it was not cheese bread.

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Pack & Cheese

31 Jan 11 by | 3 Comments | 122 view(s)
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I’m not big on jewelry. Good thing considering that early on in our relationship Tim gave me these:

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Chocolate Butter Cookies

22 Dec 10 by | 2 Comments | 1,626 view(s)
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“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Scatter joy this Christmas!

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Yeasted Cranberry-Pecan Pumpkin Loaves

20 Nov 10 by | 9 Comments | 1,184 view(s)
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“The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight…”

-M.F.K. Fisher in The Art of Eating

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But what about the sound of good bread making? Yes, the sound, at least when it comes to these yeasted cranberry-pecan pumpkin loaves.

The boing, boing, boing of fresh cranberries bouncing, just like Tigger. While trying to stuff as many of these crimson beauties into the dough as possible, some inevitably ended up on my kitchen floor. Oops!

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Why do cranberries bounce?

Bolzano Pear and Chocolate Cake

7 Nov 10 by | 10 Comments | 1,713 view(s)
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We have a plethora of pears, thanks to a considerate friend and her parents’ pear trees. (Thanks Becky!)

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Eggplant Potato Pizza

13 Oct 10 by | 1 Comment | 198 view(s)
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Tim has a series on our blog categorized “Why I Did That to You“. These posts are written for our daughters when they become older, wiser, and question the sanity of our family. Hopefully by reading his letters, our girls will gain some insight into our parenting philosophy (or lack thereof as the case may well be). Writing out our thoughts makes us feel like we’ve really figured out this whole parenting thing and aren’t flying by the seat of our pants. And maybe, just maybe we have more reasons than “because we said so.”

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Zucchini Pickles

24 Sep 10 by | 3 Comments | 746 view(s)
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Ahh…zucchini. The Energizer Bunny of the vegetable garden.

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Goat Cheese and Crackers with Blueberries, Tomatoes, and Cucumbers

1 Sep 10 by | 1 Comment | 268 view(s)
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Something was amiss at our farmers’ market recently. Justyne of Noble Springs Dairy, whom we’ve affectionately nicknamed Goatgirl in the same vein as Supergirl, was nowhere to be found. Her place had been taken by her fiance Dustin, aka Goatboy. On a typical Saturday morning he’s at the West Nashville Farmers’ Market while she’s at the Franklin Farmers’ Market with us. Why the change? Goatboy’s response: “Well, I gave her the morning off to get ready. We’re getting married tonight.”

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