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Meghan’s Homemade Red Sauce

March 26, 2014October 6, 2017 - by Meghan G - Leave a Comment

I have many, many fond memories of my mother cooking sauce on the stove when I was a kid. Stirring the sauce turned into something that felt intuitive, although it was obviously learned. If Mom had to go for a walk or step away for a while, “Stir the sauce” was the parting reminder. Making home made sauce turns into part of the rhythm of things, like your heartbeat or the bass line of a really good song. Plus, it’s FREAKING DELICIOUS, PEOPLE. Seriously freaking delicious. You can also process and freeze your own garden tomatoes and they work great in this recipe, but here it is with store-bought ingredients.

Dinner Rolls From Scratch that turn out every time!

March 19, 2014October 6, 2017 - by JMM Contributor - 1 Comment

Everybody loves fresh bread, so sometimes all you need to make dinner super special is some hot, fresh dinner rolls and a little butter. I bet you think they are …

Gardening is life: equal parts beauty and brute force.

On the planting and cultivation of children

March 17, 2014March 31, 2014 - by Meghan G - 2 Comments.

In the garden as in life: Give food, water, shelter, and room to grow. Remember that this year’s disappointments may bring about next year’s successes. Enjoy the exuberance, and let go when it’s time. Leave room for surprises. These things, I can cultivate. Actual plants, well. I don’t know about that.

No more lunch rut! Quick, easy, nutritious lunch ideas for busy moms & Dads

Lunchtime SOS! Lunch ideas plus The Best Egg Salad EVER

March 12, 2014March 13, 2014 - by Meghan G - 1 Comment

Good morning, Joy Makin’ Mamas. Let’s have lunch. No, really, I want to talk about lunch! It’s so easy to get into a rut here. I mean, if breakfast is …

{Insert adverb here} Parenting: You’re doing it…

March 10, 2014April 5, 2014 - by Meghan G - 8 Comments.

We know, on a visceral level, that our children are all different. We KNOW it. We see it, we live it… but somehow we can’t stop listening to the people who try to tell us we should parent them all the same.

The site soon to be known as "the patio."

Operation: Brainstorming #TeamCrocus

March 4, 2014March 4, 2014 - by Meghan G - Leave a Comment

It’s that gardening time of year, but everything is buried under snow and ice. So there’s only one thing for it… it’s time to bust out The Pretend Garden. That’s when I read garden catalogs, decide where I will plant 500 plants this year, plan hideously ridiculous and/or impossible hardscapes, and just generally let loose. But this year, I have an actual project planned that I would have started on already if it weren’t for all this late snow we’ve had.