Lefse (and now gluten-free lefse) is all about tradition. Justin’s family has been making lefse (pronounced leff-suh) since I’ve known them (and for a very long time before that). Every Thanksgiving they pick a home, tote over their Norwegian gear and paraphernalia and spend the evening grilling what is probably most easily described as a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘food’
On Trusting Our Kids (and Their Candy)
This is the candy Zeb got from two trunk-or-treat events and one night of trick-or-treating. Or I should say it’s all the candy he has left. From Friday through Tuesday he probably ate another grocery bag full. Because of all the sugar in his system he ate little else during that time. Was I worried? [...]
Real Food On The Road
Breakfast of Champions I’m not into food dogma, the “rules” that say if you eat this you’ll be healthy and live longer and if you don’t eat it you’ll live a miserable, disease-ridden life. And sadly, I’ve heard nearly those exact words. What I am into is “instinctual” eating: tuning into your body and eating [...]
Cajun Cooking Experiments
It seems we’re funny travelers…falling somewhere between feeling like we’re on vacation and resisting the urge to play a tourist. I feel like we’ve been so many places (some of which is already running together) and met so many people (some of whom I’m blanking on their names) and yet we haven’t done very much. [...]
Mudbugs and Madness
When in Louisiana, eat at the locals do, right? We made our way down to Mudbug Madness this weekend. Zeb wouldn’t even consider trying it, but Justin and I did. I won’t say crawfish are bad, but I do have two preferences of my food: 1) That it not be so much damn work and [...]
My name is Tara. I am a mama and a lover, a full-time nomad, a passionate devourer of Life and an Organic Life Coach.
