It’s always important to have a few meals in your repertoire that involve ingredients that you seem to always have on hand. For us, that is usually shrimp (because we buy it on sale and but don’t usually eat it that often) and asparagus (because I always seem to want to eat it when it […]

Late on a Saturday afternoon in 2010, less than two weeks before Christmas, Stefan and I were sitting around in our farmhouse in Germany and thinking about our plans for the rest of the weekend. We’d gone out running errands in the morning, buying everything imaginable (besides the tree we wanted), came home exhausted, tried […]

Firs off, let me just thank everyone who entered for such an amazing response! This was by far the biggest giveaway that NOH has ever put on. And many thanks to Mackenzie Frames again for sponsoring these two gorgeous frames! If you didn’t win, be sure to hop over to their Etsy shop and put […]

Don’t forget to enter the giveaway to win one of two beautiful handmade picture frames from Mackenzie Frames. Just hop on over to the giveaway page and find out how to enter! But hurry — the contest ends tonight! The assignment for You Capture this week is “sweet.” That brings a lot of things to […]

Hello my dear friends, Do you ever go through spurts of time where you just feel hungry ALL THE TIME? I’m having those lately. Mom talks about food with Mackenzie all day…and I only get fed in the mornings and at about 4pm. I’d be very willing to have a nice big snack around noon […]