my new favorite: butter chicken
It is the last day of school here in the desert. I’m trying to sort out my feelings about this one. My baby is graduating from Junior High School. And…
baking hurdles and my mom’s pumpkin bread recipe
A few months ago Lucy determined that “bread” is not part of the dessert or candy category (things she decided to give up for 2020), and fell in love with…
Julie’s peanut butter chocolate chip cookies
My friend is the best baker in the whole wide world. And when she first brought these cookies over to us we were wigging out they were so good. It…
cowboy caviar
I don’t think I have ever posted this recipe, which is crazy because we make it so much. Claire and I had it on “repeat” probably twice a week in…
easy-peasy pumpkin cookies
This is the time of year when I am in love with everything pumpkin. So when I came across this recipe on r2sense last year (I think they just posted…
lentil tacos
I’m getting ready to post about our Eyre reunion. For anyone who has read about past reunions (you can see them if you click on “deliberate mothering,” then “having a…
watermelon and feta salad
The timing when we got this new blog format up and running happened to coincide with the midst of the college-kids-shuffle (more about that soon, phew!), and I’m almost a…
Nichol’s vodka pasta sauce
When we lived in China, there was this family, the Nichols, who invited us over to dinner after church one Sunday. For us, invitations to Sunday dinner were pretty fantastic,…
Island Pork Tenderloin Salad
Let’s just start by saying this is my new favorite meal. It is SO GOOD. Not sure I can emphasize the “SO GOOD” quite enough on this one. So many…