If you dread every holiday season, beginning with Thanksgiving, because you feel like it exhausts you, then turn the holidays on their head and start a new tradition: celebrate simply and begin this year. Consider trading what you’ve done in the past and not enjoyed for a different standard of what you plan to enjoy.… Continue reading Celebrating Simply: Thanksgiving
Whole Foods Market Heritage Breed Turkey Giveaway
I’m excited to share a tasty giveaway that the Whole Foods Market stores and I have cooked up here in Portland, Oregon. One lucky Go Gingham reader will be the recipient of a heritage breed turkey to serve on Thanksgiving day to your family! Not being a turkey expert or really knowing the history of… Continue reading Whole Foods Market Heritage Breed Turkey Giveaway
Weekly Meal Plan
Our meal plan this went according to plan but on Tuesday morning, when I was reminding someone to get the vegetarian chili out of the basement freezer, I heard a groan. “Didn’t we just have that?” Yes, indeed we did just have that. That’s the beauty of cooking a big batch of something, freezing it… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Screen Time Equals Potato Chips
I know that Forest Gump gets credit for the line, “Life is like a box of chocolates…” but the line I’d like credit for is, “Screen time is like potato chips…” and here’s how that math works. We’re a family of four, 2 adults and 2 teenagers, and we’re pretty normal. We like to do… Continue reading Screen Time Equals Potato Chips
Dinner Group Gathering
At our last dinner group get together, which we hosted in our backyard, we planned a summer meal for the evening. Even though our dinner group met over Labor day weekend, we carried on like it was the middle of July. Well, that is until it got chilly and dark. So dark that it was… Continue reading Dinner Group Gathering
Weekly Meal Plan and No Paid TV
Every Friday morning during football season, my teenage son heads straight for the sports section of the newspaper to see if his favorite NFL team is being televised on network TV. His team is the Washington Redskins and with us living on the west coast and without paid television (think bunny-ear-antennae here), our chances of… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan and No Paid TV
Pumpkin Spice Cake
The thing with recipe testing is that you have to have people other than yourself make your recipes before you hit publish and send it out to the world. When I say “people” I mean the people in my family. So, this past Saturday, I ever so sweetly asked our 15-year-old son, “Do you want… Continue reading Pumpkin Spice Cake
Home Exchange Holidays
My favorite way to travel is to home swap and after 8 home exchanges in 8 years (4 in the U.S. and 4 in Europe), I’m ready to go again! When you home exchange, you get to stay in a home with a kitchen, live like a local in a non-tourist area, and skip having… Continue reading Home Exchange Holidays
Weekly Meal Plan
If you read our weekly meal plans, you know how often I cook with dried beans. About once a week, I cook 6-cups or 2 1/2 pounds of dried beans in our electric slow cooker that has a ceramic insert. I love it because beans can cook whether I’m home or not or even overnight… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Happy Two Year Anniversary Go Gingham
Yes, indeed, it has really been two years of me pushing the publish button. I know it feels like just yesterday we were high-fiving and butt-bumping about my one-year blog anniversary and yet here we are again. Here’s a little review of the past year. What have I learned? Posting everyday doesn’t work for me:… Continue reading Happy Two Year Anniversary Go Gingham
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