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  • Summer Vegetables are in Peak Season: Photo’s from our kitchen, our summer meals and an odd looking mango

    In our household we love to eat light veggie meals in the summertime. We have lots of local fresh produce from Florida, Georgia and Tennessee available now and all the summer produce is at its peak, so we create meals around what is available at our farmer’s market. Butternut Squash Roasted with Cinnamon and Sea…

  • Pop Craft Craze Arrives in Sarasota, FL!

    Our weekly farmer’s market trips always yield a delightful new experience for my partner and I. On this trip we tasted our first Pop Craft treat. What a great way to cool down after a trek through the hot morning sun. They have a fantastic choice of both, creamy and icy artisan popsicles to choose…

  • Cha cha ching!

    I love being liked by 100 people….and counting!

  • The Ink People

    Here are a some ink and brush drawings I created on newsprint.

  • Succulent Roasted Chicken

    A delicious roasted chicken recipe created by my wife.

  • 50 Follows!

    WOO HOO!!!! Thanks to all my followers!

  • Originally posted on Elliott in Gotham: [http://www.frick.org]  This fall The Frick Collection will present Vincent van Gogh‘s Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier). The painting has not left its home institution, the Norton Simon Museum, in Pasadena, CA, in nearly forty years, making this a particularly rare and exciting viewing opportunity for East Coast audiences. This modern…

  • Fried Yella’s – Tomatoes that is!

    These beauties are the start of a great summer meal, Yellow Tomatoes! Pretty little things, aren’t they? Slice and dip into a seasoned breadcrumb, no egg needed here. Stack ’em all up on a plate… beauteous! Get out your favorite cast iron skillet. Carefully place into hot oil, I used Canola oil. Turn over when golden. Drain…

  • Crepe’s To Go ! Oh Yeah !!

    Our new market experience “Traditional French Crepe’s”  made to order folks!

  • This post from Cultfit is something everyone should practice. Life is too short and sweet to race through and miss all the wonders of the world. Enjoy!

  • Stir Fry is Da Bomb!

    And why is stir fry da bomb ?

  • Purple striped eggplants

    It isn’t difficult to forgo the heavy meat laden yummy meals, that are more suitable for colder weather indulgences during these steamy days of our hot Florida summer.

  • Originally posted on veggiezest: Sorbets are here!! Sorbet is my answer to this scorching heat and hot air this year. Pick up your favorite fruit and turn them into these icy cool, vibrant sweet treats. They are even guilt free– it does not get better than this. You are golden if you have an ice…

  • Originally posted on Blank Space BLOG: I love to see artists who are classically trained doing something MORE. Anyone can paint a perfect still life with enough  time and practice, but to truly see things differently is a great talent. Its great to see his realistic work (which, by the way, I think has amazing volume to…

  • Our indoor Memorial day barbecue

    I was reading my monthly subscription to Bon Appetit, and it inspired me to make a Skirt steak from a portion of one of their recipes.

  • Fellow poet

    Originally posted on infinite.budalla: In recent years, when I am home, I tend to live in silence. There is beauty in the near silence. My TV isn’t on and neither is my radio. Yet, there is the sound of the birds twittering, the voices of children laughing, the cicadas crooning in the evening, and the…

  • Surprise at the Farmer’s Market

    We only have one more week before our favorite organic veggie booth, Worden Farms, shuts down for the summer. Rats! It is that time of year in Florida where it’s hard to grow anything because the sun is so blazing hot!

  • Community comes together

    Originally posted on from scratch club: I grew up loving food, so much so that I fluctuated between 180 and almost 200 pounds from the time I was 18 until after marrying my hubs at 33, almost eight years ago (we joke that I was overweight and he was bleach-blond when we got married…must have…

  • A Nod to the Vegans of the World (Diet Tips From Scott Jurek, Ultrarunner And Vegan)

    Here’s a great look at how powerful and healing the vegan lifestyle can be if done correctly. Even I myself were a vegetarian/vegan for over 10 years . I would highly recommend the diet to anyone wanting to explore this way of life. May even consider going back to it myself! Diet Tips From Scott…

  • That Day

    When the light of day sits pensive and dull…