Simple Meal Plan

Arepas (pronouced “Ah-reh-pahs”, with a lightly rolled r) are a primarily Colombian and Venezuelan dish made from corn flour, salt, water, and butter. Don’t let the short ingredient list fool you, though; there are few things as good as an arepa hot off the griddle, dripping with warm butter… In fact, the only thing keeping [...]

Recently, I talked a little about the struggle we experienced while trying to get our 6-year old son to try new foods. For most of his life, his preferred foods could have been counted on the fingers of two hands: Chicken nuggets, pizza, bread, peas, corn, apples, and a few other items. A couple of [...]

This afternoon I made my first visit to a local farm. It’s still a little on the early side – for the most part, the only local produce at most farms is asparagus and lettuce – but it was still nice to reconnect with our local farmers. I picked up a cantaloupe while I was [...]