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Vegan Fuji Slow Cooker Pumpkin Chili

Life with a newborn isn’t what I was remembering/expecting . . . it’s actually so much easier. Maybe it’s that I know what to expect and my other children are older? Maybe it’s that I’m not exhausted from nine months of pregnancy and having to recover from another c-section? Or maybe it’s just that our […]

Three more days until Thanksgiving! (Or as my kids say, 3 more sleeps!) Mashed potatoes are a classic Thanksgiving side dish, yet there are more variations than you could probably sit down and count in one week. I am working on a church Christmas dinner and came up with a recipe for mashed potatoes that […]

This post is brought to you by Harmons Grocery. I know, I know, you’re thinking “Gluten free slow cooker pot roast? Rachael, isn’t a pot roast naturally gluten free?” Well yes, and no. It depends on how you make it! If you make your own homemade beef stock without any added thickeners and you don’t […]

This post is brought to you by Redwood Hill Farm. I know we have yet to hit the New Year, but has anyone started their post-holiday detox yet? I’ve been craving fresh fruits and vegetables (especially the mandarin oranges from my parents’ trees here in California) and not really wanting to even look at any […]

Living in the United States, it can be easy to forget what seasonality is. Fresh tomatoes in the middle of winter? Of course! What isn’t easy to forget however, is how much better things taste when they are eaten during their season. They are bursting with flavor. It used to be that we didn’t have […]

We are at the tail end of apple season and I am sad to see it go. We have a fantastic source for apples here in Utah—Allred Orchards in Payson, Utah grows 8 different varieties of apples and sells them at a farmstand in Provo, Utah. Last month Bug and I drove down to the […]

Now that we are in serious holiday mode (how is it that it is already November?), I’m sure that things around your neck of the woods are just as crazy as they are here! I love this time of year. I love the changing colors of the leaves, the crisp snap in the air, the […]

Mother Nature is flat out fickle here in Utah. When we arrived the weather wasn’t much different than the weather we left behind in southern California—warm and sunny—still summer weather.

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