• Frozen Yogurt Fruit Bites
  • Blueberry Pie Yogurt Parfaits
  • School Farm - Teach a Child to Grow
  • Chocolate Almond Caramel Slice
  • Just Hurry Up and Be Patient: Tips to Get Through the Weight Loss Process
  • Summer Salad Topping: Parmesan Savory Granola

Posts by Annelies :

Breakfast Cookies and a Big Traveling Potluck

Breakfast Cookies and a Big Traveling Potluck

It’s not everyday that one of my carry-on’s is shellacked in tin foil tucked into the corners of a 9×9 pan. When traveling with food to a potluck, there are things to keep in mind, like what will travel well, both from a spoilage and structural integrity standpoint. Then again, there is the matter of [...]

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Getting Dirty

Something interesting is happening in the U.S. Recently, I chatted with my uncle about the popularity of homesteading and of my escalating desires to see this come to pass as a city-dweller. It might help to know that this uncle built his own home and was one of the last homesteaders in Idaho many years [...]

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A Cooking Revival and Quick Chat with Michael Pollan

“Is a cooking revival possible in the United States? Can it happen without home economics classes in school?” This is how I first met Michael Pollan at the Environmental Working Group dinner, Wednesday evening, March 13th.  Daniel and I had ventured to this fundraiser dinner to learn more about new projects in store for EWG [...]

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Sweet Tooth, Interrupted

Taste determines so much of what we eat, doesn’t it? Sure, we eat with our eyes and aroma causes us to whet our appetites, but if something doesn’t taste good, it doesn’t matter if the other senses work overtime to try and persuade us. Consider taste again. Made up of five flavors, we spend a lot [...]

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A New Year to Learn Healthy Habits

I’m a sucker for clean starts. You know the kid who couldn’t sleep the day before school began because she was so excited? That was me in spades. I relished new notebooks to write in, the anticipation of new classmates to befriend and new teachers to prod my brain with their subject matter. For most [...]

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