Currently growing in Southern California
It’s mid-July already! Can you believe it? Its finally 100 degrees out here in SoCal and we are doing our very best to stay cool during the hottest part of the day. Around 5pm, when I start to make dinner it is still in the upper 90s so I am always trying to avoid cooking inside. Just using the stove makes the air conditioner kick on every time so to avoid astronomical electric bills I am doing 75% of my cooking on my amazing gas grill.
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Chia is my new obsession and this past weekend I spent an entire day making things with chia seeds. Being dairy free I don’t get to eat many puddings, so when I discovered that chia seed pudding can be made with any type of milk and doesn’t require cooking I was sold!
Read More“Mom, can I pick some peas too?” The pea vines in front of me begin to tremble. I look down to see her tugging on a pea pod, pulling the whole vine to one side. “Whoa there sweetheart, you need to cut them off, not pick them. Pea vines are too fragile to just yank…
Read MoreThe rush of the morning is over. My daughter has been delivered safety to school. My husband, long gone to work at an early hour. I sit at the kitchen table and take in the quiet of the morning. My house is silent except for the sound of our neighborhood sparrows and wrens softly chirping…
Read MoreI tend to associate my friends and family with a recipe they have once cooked for me. One friend is forever tied to an amazing layered ice cream cake she made for a party. Another will never escape the delicious chunky spaghetti sauce she made one night we came over. My mom will always be…
Read MoreWhen I was a teenager, the crisp cool weather of October meant my sister and I were on apple and pear duty. Our job was to pick the pears, apples, and apple-pears off the trees in the orchard before the birds or our fruit-eating dogs got to them first. We loved picking bird pecked apples…
Read MoreI have been thinking about this food blog thing for a long time. I am not new to the blogosphere. I have been writing a crafting blog called Elemental Stitches for the last 5 years. Over time I noticed my crafting blog became half crafting, half food. It had somehow morphed into two blogs fighting…
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Shoots and Roots 