“May I do my work out of love, and not out of duty.” I say this every day as part of my morning prayer. I added it in a few years back, when homeschooling Saoirse and Ula was at its most challenging. Like every over-achieving mom, I was having a hard time sorting out what […]
Headcheese
I know. You’re super-sad that you couldn’t make it out to the cafe this past weekend to enjoy our headcheese special. But…what luck! Your neighbors just happened to have a spare pig head they’d like to give to you! Well, now you can make your own… Okay, this is a big project. But it isn’t […]
Sap Bush Cafe Prix Fixe Brunch July 29-30
Your choice of: Tomato Garlic Chicken Salad Barbers’ Cherry tomatoes and braised garlic, paired with Sap Bush Hollow pastured chicken OR Head cheese (c’mon! Ever tried it?) Sap Bush Hollow Pastured Pork and fresh herbs, served refreshingly cool over Barbers’ greens, drizzled with olive oil and coarse salt, paired with a wedge of lemon Also included: […]
Culture Shock
Is this character, or is this cultural? I’ve just returned home from the cafe for lunch to find two Spanish teenagers melted across my living room couch, faces illuminated by smartphones. My own teenager has retreated to help her dad stack the firewood. I don’t think they notice she’s left them. They don’t even notice […]
Adventures in Shopping
“We’re at a store called Pink. Did you know you can try on thongs over your shorts?” This is a week of many firsts: Saoirse’s first “hang out” at the mall with Martina, our foreign exchange student from Madrid; her first siting of a Wendy’s restaurant; her first exposure to the makeup aisle at Wal-Mart, […]
How to make a berry pie
Strawberries in the fields, raspberries in the yard, blueberries in the garden, blackberries along the road, cherries on the trees… It’s pie time. Last week, I shared with you my no-fail gluten-free pie crust. This week, let’s talk pie. When it comes to summer pie, there is really one basic recipe that I follow. […]
Heart-Vision
“She needs to learn to advocate for herself, Mom.” I say it with such an air of authority. It’s Ula’s second day of Circus Camp down at the Panther Creek Arts Center. Cornelia organized it for all the local kids, and Ula, with her own passion for the circus, was especially excited. But she had […]
The Other America
Going to watch fireworks is the last thing I want to do on the Fourth of July. I’m mulling over the possible excuses and reasons I can present to get out of it as Bob and I walk the dirt road, scanning the blossoms on the elderberry bushes. We’re checking to see if any of […]
Week Night Heaven: Tamari-Ginger Shaved Steaks
Shaved steaks, also called “sandwich steaks,” are extremely thin slices of meat that your butcher cuts from the top, bottom and eye round with a rotary meat slicer. They are often used for Philly cheese steak sandwiches, but here they take a fabulous Asian twist that is one of my kids’ favorite dishes. Once marinated, […]
The Business of Creativity
Become a Patron When I was a teenager, my mom had a prescient friend who traveled to New Orleans with her. An aspiring jazz sax player myself, I longed to go with them, but had to stay home and go to school. While wandering down Bourbon Street one lazy afternoon, they came upon a young […]
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