Jul
10
If you can stand the video and audio being out of sync, take a look at this wonderful video in which Phyllis Diller, fantastic funny lady behind the voices of many children’s cartoon characters–including the Queen in A Bug’s Life, speaks out on the importance of breastfeeding. She shares her experience of breastfeeding six children …
Jul
08
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Jul
08
My son, Gabriel, will be four in two months. As a generally mellow child who made it through the “terrible twos” and “horrific threes” without much excitement beyond the odd tantrum, Gabriel has shocked us in the past two months with what I’m coming to understand is typical four-year-old behavior. I tried to take this …
Jul
07
Russ Parsons, in his beautiful book on choosing fresh produce, How to Pick a Peach, wrote: …Springtime cooking has always been such a paradox. To get sweetness, you have to work for it. There is no better example than legumes. And this weekend, work for it I did! Lured by the $1 baskets at the …
Jul
06
After reading about method products on TreeHugger (How to Green Your Cleaning and Method Home Cleaning Products, in addition to several forum threads on method) last year, we decided to take a step toward keeping our brand-new Built Green Colorado home green and switched over the last few conventional cleaning products we had to ones …
Jul
03
This week, kohlrabi, the strange cabbage-cousin once again made its way into my CSA box. At first, I intended to make a slaw similar to the Kohlrabi Slaw I made last summer, but when I stopped and read my CSA’s weekly newsletter, I decided to give their Kohlrabi Salad a try. Man, am I glad …
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