by Flora Caputo | Oct 1, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Full of natural, gluten-free spaghetti!There’s nothing more fun than digging your hands into this week’sFarm Fresh Now! vegetable and pulling out long, golden strands of spaghetti. So this week we are offering not one, but two great recipes for...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 30, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
This recipe was adapted by Gail Gand’s “Brunch!” cards. I keep hoping I get to meet her, especially now that I was enducted into Les Dames D’Escoffier in Chicago. She is a prominent member of the group and a baking goddess. Maybe she can...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 27, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Well, gang. Peach-A-Pa-Looza continues in our kitchen. But I think we are getting to the end of it. My dad dropped off a bushel last week, so we have been making our way through all those before we get into all the apple-pumpkin-spice-a-pa-looza. This is a super easy...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 22, 2013 | Crafting, Uncategorized, Urban Cottage Chic
This is a SUPER EASY wreath that I made with my girl scout troop. I had them make smaller ones, and I made a larger one so they could see an example better, and I could put it on my door for fall. I got the idea from a blogger in Denmark, and she used a simple wire...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 21, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Tomatoes are still going gang busters in my yard, but all I see everywhere is apple this and pumpkin spice that.Well, I always was a little rebellious. And I’ve always been thrifty. SO I am going to keep my SUMMER garden bounty going as long as possible,...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 13, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Well, it seems everyone is all “Hey, let’s do slow cooker recipes!” and “I must pin more pumpkin recipes ASAP!”But not me! OH NO! My garden is still in denial that fall is a cold-snap away, and it’s still producing a ton of...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 10, 2013 | Crafting, Uncategorized
So like many of you I am obsessed with Game of Thrones, and impatiently wait for the new season. My favorite character is Catelyn Stark. She has elegance, beauty and strength. She is the ideal archetype of a mother; fierce, beautiful, protective, strong and honorable....
by Flora Caputo | Sep 9, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Around last Halloween, my daughter’s teacher sent a note home saying that for the class Halloween party, the kids had to bring “gross cuisine”. The children were supposed to find a recipe online to create their “gross” concoction. My...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 8, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Some of you have been following me a while, and I know you have seen lately what my daughter puts me through on Halloween and her birthday lately. She really pushes me to expand my creativity, that’s for sure. This year was no different. For some of you moms out...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 7, 2013 | Recipes, Uncategorized
We are up to our ears in peaches. My father grows peaches in his backyard, and what’s funny about that statement is that you would think he lived in the country. My father lives in the most white bread western suburb of Chicago you ever set foot in. People often...
