Kati Esperes-Stevens

Make the Bread, Buy the Butter

When it comes to food and the buy it vs. make it debate, a lot of folks take the initial leap with, say, making their own peanut butter or mayonnaise. When it c...

the Hippie and the Housewife

The cookbook – in all of its spaghetti-sauce-stained, dog-eared tangibility – speaks less these days to necessity and practicality than it does to who y...

New Local Products

Kati Esperes-Stevens

Alpendough cookie dough had me at step number one in their directions for baking: “Eat raw cookie dough.” If you say so! After all, who am I to argue with direc...

knobbly, weighty & funky

Kati Esperes-Stevens

By Kati Harr In our household, as in most, I imagine, duties are split between the adults via some combination of availability, willingness and nec...

Weeding Weeds, Naturally

Kati Esperes-Stevens

Oh, weeds: those impervious little suckers, always threatening to elbow out your lettuce or strangle your tomatoes. Every home gardener has to contend with ...

Soup 101

Kati Esperes-Stevens

My Grandma used to say “Security is a casserole in the freezer.” I know how she felt. In our household, we believe security is a pot of soup on the stove. The...