Our family cookie bake took a dramatic turn this December and we stopped doing the big Milwaukee Zauner women all-day bake-a-thon we’ve been doing every single year since I was literally in the womb. There was no sadness or big conversation that led to the change. The tradition just sort of naturally reached it’s end….
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Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide + RECIPE: Spicy Ham Hand Pies
It’s official. We have entered cookie bake season which means I’m feeling very festive, a little fat, and way behind schedule on all of my gift purchasing. Without fail, every single Christmas I repeat this pattern where I sort of forget to be thoughtful until it’s nearly too late. I wax poetic to everyone who will…
The Cookbook Gift Guide for Every Friend on Your Christmas List
Christmas is coming my friends– whether we are ready or not. (We’re not). And it’s time to start leaning towards the gifts that add value to the lives of our loved ones and away from the things that feel like a burden (and like one more odd item to try and figure out how to…
Snow Stuck + RECIPE/GIFT: DIY Roasted Cherry & Ginger Old Fashioned Kit
Back a month ago when it was 70 degrees outside and my hubby and I were doing fall hikes for my birthday in t-shirts and a light stocking hat, I really swore I didn’t care if winter ever came around this year. (Of course as an organic farmer I had a different opinion. I knew…
Chicago Christmas
Way back when I was a young farm kid who frequented no town larger than Janesville on a regular basis, one of the highlights of my year was the Rock County 4-H Santa Train to Chicago. All us country kids and our families would bundle up during a cold day in December, carpool to Harvard, Illinois and…
Holiday Preparations + RECIPE: Sweet Rolls with Winter Squash, Pecan & Salted Caramel
Hi everyone! How were your Thanksgivings? Is that old news by now? Have you already moved on to decorating and Christmas things? I’m in that perfect in-between land where I’m still glowing from all the good Thanksgiving food and all the wine and all the fall gratitude that comes with being a farmer (read all about…
Cookie Bake + RECIPE: Thimble Cookies
Have you ever had a weekend where you come into the office on Monday morning and for once you aren’t sleepy or grumpy to be back at your desk, but instead you are filled with this intense joy? This kind of happy where a calm just washes over you and literally nothing can bring you…
Goodbye Christmas, Hello Work Week.
Goodbye Christmas tree. Goodbye cozy daytime wood-stove and the books I read curled up in front of you. Goodbye spontaneous trips to Madison with lingering afternoon Scrabble games over mulled wine. At least goodbye for now. Because now it is time to shake off all that holiday joy and head back to work. Okay, maybe…
The Leek & The Carrot 