In her roles as an Ambassador for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (https://www.lirs.org), Pixie created a list of food-related items to assist our Afghan neighbors and friends as they resettle to life in the United States. These items will help to continue the connection our new friends have with their homeland. Spices & Herbs: whole…
Pixie’s 2022 Summer Garden Plans
I am hard at work planning my summer garden, are you? What are you going to plant? Do you have all your seeds, are you still ordering them from catalogs, or will you use starter plants and seedlings that you get from your local farmers market and garden stores? And me, you ask, what am…
#TheLongWelcome
As an Ambassador for the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (https://www.lirs.org), Pixie interviewed one of her friends who immigrated to the U.S. in 1962 from Alexandria, Egypt when she was a teenager. Her family settled in Colorado. Pixie asked her friend about her food memories of life in Egypt and the U.S. The following is…
The Long Welcome
In 2022, Pixie will be an Ambassador for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (“LIRS”). You might say, tell me more about LIRS and we are so glad to! See the next paragraph below, and here is a link to their website: https://www.lirs.org. The LIRS Ambassador Network brings together people from all corners of the United…
Cardoons
While strolling through my little Farmers Market about fifteen years ago, I saw something in the distance that put a pep in my step and drew me in like a kitten to string. Standing in a bucket on the ground, a large bunch of tall, leafy stalks waved to me in the gentle breeze, their…
Sometimes Mistakes Are Made
I consider myself a decent home cook and my friends and family seem to truly enjoy the fruits of my labor. They just assume that everything I cook will turn out well and that is generally true – mostly because I do not serve them the mistakes … except my poor hubby who goes along…
Rolling with the Punches
Memorial Day 2021 started as a beautiful day with mild temperatures and pretty skies. I curled up on the chaise tucked on the covered porch, a book in one hand and a glass of rose in the other, listening to the vibrant yard around me. Bees and hummingbirds were happily buzzing the abundance of spring…
Life in the Age of the Periodical Cicadas (aka Great Eastern Brood X) and the Swarm of 2021
Postscript: The Great Eastern Brood X Cicadas are almost a thing of the past. There are a few here and there, still crazily flying into just about any structure thinking or hoping it is a tree. But for the most part, they have done what they came here to do and life is getting back…
Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge
A long time ago in a land far away … OK, it was the early 90’s in Boston … I was a young mother married to a graduate student so our meager resources meant we had to be frugal with our purchases and live a simple lifestyle. Garage sales were our favorite store! I happened…
Rules for A (Vegetable) Garden
The winter months are moving along. The days are getting longer. Soon we will be in late-winter, early spring. What this means for many of us, me included, is we are planning our summer vegetable gardens. We are asking ourselves, what types of vegetables, herbs and fruits should we grow, where, when and how much….
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