I’ve been having a hard time getting Eden to eat recently. Inherited from both her parents, that kid has one crazy sweet tooth. I foolishly put a bag of tangerines in a bowl on the middle of the table and whenever I try to feed her lunch or dinner, she just points at the bag and makes her noise that [...]

Last weekend I experienced something I never thought possible: life had become just a little too sweet. My overactive sweet tooth was shutting down, begging for a long-awaited break. I have worked in bakeries for years. There were days I decorated 50+ cakes, frosted hundreds of cookies, mixed 80 quarts of brownie batter. There were days I would come home [...]

Recently I asked my facebook page what they would like to see more of on The Sweet Life.  I was thrilled with the variety of responses with which I will enjoy working into this blog. Several people, and I’ve heard this before, asked for easy to prepare meals with few ingredients. So per your request, I present: I am a huge fan [...]

I love homemade pizza. Jason and I usually enjoy a pizza once a week, which has turned out to be a great way of using our weekly CSA vegetables in a creative way. A few weeks ago I saw this salad pizza and immediately wanted to try my own version. Jason, who likes more traditional saucy “cheese”-y pizza, and can’t get [...]

I love beets. It took me about 28 years to figure this out and then a couple years ago I was reintroduced. Oh how quickly I realized how foolish I’d been. So earthy and sweet, you can eat them with just about anything! So when last week I picked up my farm share and saw three beautiful magenta beets, my [...]