recently in the 🌙 kitchen August 1 marks the start of Lughnasadh, the traditional beginning of harvest season. A time of bounty and abundance. A time to start getting excited about efforts becoming yield. Concepts very much on my mind these past few weeks as we spent some time visiting family in the Midwest. Look in any direction out there and it's miles upon miles of cornfields and rolling row after row of soy. The sheer volume of it is humbling, in the best of ways. Knowing that each plant...

recently in the 🌙 kitchen May and June were quite a time. Between working through a flurry of migraine treatment options, then recovering from a small lumpectomy (nothing scary thankfully!), it has been a little more medical than usual around here. Acceptance of the fact that simply existing in this particular body of mine is its own part-time job (full-time? OVERTIME? 😅) hasn't always come easily to me. But I do feel like I'm getting there. In the meantime, I'm practicing giving myself two...

October recipe wrap-up I'm usually more of a savory gal, but last month I surprised myself with dreamy thoughts of baked goods. Rather than try to salad myself out of it, I leaned right into the craving for cozy autumn baking and we ended up having an October full of sweet treats--no tricks in sight! From maple-buttercream crowned Spiced Chai Cake to cinnamon-sugar dusted Applesauce Fritters and ginger laced Acorn Squash Bread to buttery Pumpkin Brioche Bread Pudding, last month was packed...