My favorite way to end a winter day is with a hearty bowl of soup for supper. Every winter Mark and I discover a new favorite to add to our repertoire, and this year it’s this wild rice and mushroom concoction–thanks to Cooks Illustrated. With the abundance of shiitake mushrooms on our logs this year we had a half gallon jar of […]

One small downside of a very BIG upside to getting to see our grandchildren often is our exposure to their viruses… I’ve been a little under the weather with a cold that Eden inadvertently shared during a sleep-over. But I’m not complaining. If anything I have more empathy for her own little body that battled a cold virus that took some of the […]