We all have cookbooks that we just love and adore, right? They're often the cookbooks we use the most, because the recipes inside just taste great every time. The cookbook is so trustworthy that you can try something new on your friends and know that it's going to...

A Little Piece of England
Last week, I had the pleasure of learning about a cute little sort of self-sufficiency novel which is not only meant to help you learn about life on a homestead, but also be entertaining. It's not The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency (nor does it attempt to be)....

Beer Poached Salmon in the Römertopf
Since the day my new Romertopfs arrived in the mail last week. I have been wondering what I should cook in it. I found a few nice salmon filets in our trunk freezer that definitely needed to be used, so I decided to throw in whatever ingredients I had at home (which...

Baby Hearts Book Review: Don’t wreck your kid
While in the hospital for four days, I finished reading Baby Hearts: A Guide to Giving Your Child an Emotional Head Start. When this book arrived, Stefan looked at it and said, "You know I'll never be reading that, right?" Not because he doesn't care about how Mack...

Diaper Free Book Review: Bring on the bare butt babies
I just finished reading Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene and found it to be a very interesting book. While the primary focus of the book is communicating to a parent how they may be able to have their baby out of diapers by the age of one, the...

The Harley Biker Cookbook Review
Nearly ten years ago, Stefan and I were rummaging around in a book shop, looking for gifts to take home to friends and otherwise finding a huge pile of books we wanted to take home. Thankfully, that was back in the day when you could carry tons of luggage back with...


