Category Archives: Home Remodeling Posts

Farm To Table: 3 Ways to Prepare a Farmer’s Market Seasonal Salad

My family visits our local farmer’s market every other week. Partially because it is a great way to have fun while supporting our local farmers, but it is also because we pick up our bi-weekly CSA share there. When you shop at the farmer’s market or you are a member of a CSA, being creative is essential when it comes to deciding how to use all of the vegetables that you will find. For example, right now in Florida our farmer’s market is full of mixed greens, squash, peppers, winter fruits, strawberries, and root vegetables.

Since we are a busy family, finding time and creative ways to use all of those vegetables before they expire is very important to us. We have found the quickest way to use a lot of vegetables at once, regardless of the vegetables that we receive each week is by having a salad with our dinner every evening. The k

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Yorkshire Pudding part 3: Hedonism Wines

Hedonism Wines, 3-7 Davies St. W1K 3LD

For Easter my husband and I went to France for the weekend and decided it was only appropriate to kick start our trip with an evening of wine tasting…one of our friends had recommended that we try Hedonism Wines-so on Thursday night we headed out into the cold to find this “seriously cool” wine ‘boutique’ off Berkeley Square. As we approached Davies Street we were met with a beacon of (sparkling bottles and glasses) light. Hedonism Wines entices you in with a magnificent display of every wine and spirit that you can imagine, beautifully placed around the shop floor shining through the giant glass windows. This place really does live up to its name!

As soon as you step in you are met by a charming member of staff, who not only looks the part in a pristine lime green apron but you discover is also very well-informed and extremely passionate about all things vinous. You insta

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Föhr House by Francesco Di Gregorio & Karin Matz

Reflecting its exotic, sea-swept location and rich nautical history, Föhr House by Francesco Di Gregorio & Karin Matz, in a village on the German North Sea island of Föhr, converts an old farmhouse hay storage interior. With treated pine, blue polypropylene rope, and 3,200 hand-drilled ceramic tiles that reference an old local symbol of wealth – hand-painted Friesan tiles – from merchant seafaring days of old. Via ArchDaily. Photos by Francesco Di Gregorio. Read more…

Kitchen Addition: Grandma’s Recipe Art

I thought Id share a little project with you today that I recently hung up in our kitchen, but that I actually created about six months ago. We lost my Grandma just before our big trip to Europe and it was devestating. She was the local Grandma in my life that I was very close to the one that taught me to bake, gave me sage advice on finding the one (which subsequently confirmed my yes to Kevin) and who picked blackberries with me every summer when we visited Washington together. It was a very heartfelt loss and there were no words to describe it. To add salt to the wound it was in a matter of weeks that we were celebrating the passing of my other special Grandma, whom we had lost the year before.

But, I took what meant most to our relationship and created a piece of art that I thought my family would enjoy.

 

Grandma and I baked together at every opportunity we had she was an incredible baker!

We couldnt attend her funeral because of travel and that was a second blow to my heart.

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Do Not Try This at Home

Most creeping or vining plants will seek some form of support.  And if it’s a pumpkin vine, it can apparently latch onto a nearby tree and use it as a host.  That’s what this heirloom pumpkin plant did when its seeds were planted close to the base of a well-established redwood, and the wayward vine produced some lovely pumpkins as it ascended the base of this large trunk.

Our customer, Manfred S., shared his story and photos:

Dear Garden Harvest Supply Folks,

We live in a cooperative housing complex in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Have lived here since 1965 and in that time I have planted a lot of shrubs and trees on common property, including a Dawn Redwood just across the sidewalk from our unit.  In t

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