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Becoming Lola
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MEATLESS MONDAY: braised artichokes & rhubarb tea cakes

I know you guys over in the States were or have been celebrating Memorial Day this weekend. The festivities that go along with it have always made me a bit jealous... In Europe, Im afraid we dont kno...

2 days ago 1 person likes this

SUNDAY SUPPERS: vegan roasted garlic cauliflower soup

She worked quietly as the aroma wafted across the house, drawing mouths to feed from near and far. The table was set. The food was cooked. The day was complete. Sundays are the best days. For those l...

3 days ago 3 people like this

RECIPE: garlic scape pesto with fusili

Hey, did you hear? Im a farmer. An organic farmer. Still! Im officially ten days in and I have never been in more pain and more bliss all at the same time. This week, Ive probably learned more about ...

6 days ago 4 people like this

RECIPE 6: minty roasted apple radish salad

Popping in for a minute to post this recipe I made for lunch today as part of my farm girl diet (yes, Im still farming...but oh how my body aches). Its another six ingredient beauty. So simple, yet r...

23 may 12 1 person likes this

MEATLESS MONDAY: tofu stir-fry and doughnut balls

Lola here is so nice to actually host me again for a Meatless Monday, though I am currently really bad company and in a bit of a shambles. I just broke up with my boyfriend (who was a really great gu...

21 may 12 3 people like this

RECIPE: spicy wilted green brown rice with tahini mushrooms

Im finally in for the night, and will have a full report tomorrow. This morning you were witness to the lovely radish harvest I experienced. Both harvesting radishes and eating radishes were a virgin...

18 may 12 3 people like this

RECIPE 6: first harvest radish omelette

Are you there reader, its me, Lola. And if you didnt hear, I took my well-heeled city girl derrier to the country and started farming. Organically of course. And today was my very first harvest! Noth...

17 may 12 2 people like this

my first morning as an organic farmer

Is this not the most serene way to wake up? My only disappointment is that you miss the magic through the lens, because in person it was a sunrise a thousand times more spectacular. I havent actually...

16 may 12 3 people like this

SPOTTED: yours is the earth shop

Im officially a farmer! Fresh off the midnight train from one countryville, (Georgia) and newly planted on the land of another countryville, (Pennsylvania) I am happy to announce that my bonafide cit...

16 may 12 3 people like this

MEATLESS MONDAY: stuffed peppers and peanut butter marshmallow cupcakes

When Im in the kitchen, I feel the day finally makes some sense. Though Im far from being a Gault Millaut cook, I love to prep veggies, pat them dry, chop them up neatly, with a sharp knife (compared...

14 may 12 7 people like this

RECIPE: the whiteout cake with berry cream cheese filling & white chocolate ganache

She may walk with a limp, but I bet she has a creamy filling. (Never said this blog was for kids, ha!) The making of this cake has got to be as bittersweet as child birth. On the one had, it was the ...

14 may 12 3 people like this

SUNDAY SUPPERS: mothers day seasonal garden buffet

 Menu Tea Sandwiches & Horderves Creamy Beet Sandwiches Herb Cream Cheese Cucumber Sandwiches Crispy Pea Risotto Balls Chicken Liver Mousse Pate Baguette, open face French Cheese Plate with ...

14 may 12 4 people like this

SOUND OFF: dark truths behind supermarket ice cream

Shed always giggle when momma teased daddy every morning, "want some coffee in your sugar dear?" Wonder if daddy would laugh now, knowing a bucket load of sugar is the least of our worries. N...

13 may 12 2 people like this

DIY: mothers day brunch drinking bell jars

Just popping in for a little DIY that would be perfect for your Mothers Day soirée. I hosted a lovely brunch last weekend, that quickly turned to cocktail hour, and soon enough a dessert party. Lucky...

13 may 12 1 person likes this

RECIPE: when life gives you lemons, make apple crisp

She grew up on the coast of Naples, shaping pizza dough with her mama, plucking ripe juicy tomatoes from the entangled viny fence in her neighbors yard. Me? Im just a brown skinned girl, born in the ...

11 may 12 9 people like this

RECIPE: unexpectedly delicious roasted cauliflower mash

The mark of hosting a successful meal is pleasing everyone. And not cursing by dessert time. So when one guest of mine said she despised cauliflower, I of course made cauliflower for dinner. So this ...

08 may 12 3 people like this

MEATLESS MONDAY: saffron eggplant & orange blossom cake

When Lola offered me to contribute to her amazing blog for the Meatless Monday column, I was touched and honored - and also just a little bit freaked out. Im obviously a veggie lover, (or so I think)...

07 may 12 2 people like this

MENU: seasonal mothers day garden party

Its that time again. Not sure what time Im in fact referring to actually, seeing as how Ive never even attempted to undertake what Im about to delve into this weekend, but I can certainly allude to a...

05 may 12 3 people like this

CRAVING: chocolate sacher torte

Did you meet my beautiful new guest blogger Scarlett yet? Oh goodness, if you havent, please go read the About page up there on the left and get acquainted. Shes not just a beauty, shes uncontrollabl...

04 may 12 6 people like this

RECIPE: blackberry farm pineapple upside down cake

It was the party of the year. The tasteful kitchen remodel complete. The living room decked out in antiques from their trip to Greece. The guest list like the whos who of NY Housewives. And a 24 kara...

04 may 12 2 people like this

RECIPE: best ever crusted buffalo macaroni and cheese

I have a love hate relationship with dairy. On the one hand, Im completely lactose intolerant with a newly discovered understanding that humans arent meant to drink milk after infancy, much less the ...

02 may 12 5 people like this

MEATLESS MONDAY: strawberry cake & fava bean pilaf

Ever find someones beauty radiates, permeates, and magnetizes you toward them? And theyre not even in the same room... Thats how I feel about Scarlett, our very first guest blogger here on Becoming L...

30 apr 12 5 people like this

DIY: gold frosted bowls

Did I mention I am the poster child for procrastination? No...never dropped that bomb? Ahh yes, probably because I was too busy doing other completely unrelated things and didnt trouble myself to tel...

30 apr 12

RECIPE: roasted sweet potato apple soup

During a global warming induced late April summer, the last thing youre craving is a big warm bowl of soup. To those cynical bouts I say, "open your mouth and swallow". But dont be fooled, as...

28 apr 12 9 people like this

RECIPE: best vegan peanut butter choco chip cookies

She said she was vegan. Thats when I pretended I didnt know her and proceeded across the street to the leather handbag sample sale. Its funny what a person will proclaim they are, until they arent. I...

26 apr 12 8 people like this

RECIPE: oatmeal cranberry choco chip cookies

Heres the thing. I woke up yesterday in my own bed for the first time in two weeks (a long story for another day) and felt the urge to cultivate some semblance of a healthy morning start, if you will...

24 apr 12 4 people like this

get rid of a cold in a day & creamy tomato soup

Hey you. Yeah you. I got a secret. It does not have to be winter or even flu season for you to catch a little something something. Can you believe one night I am perfectly fine, up late as usual, com...

24 apr 12 5 people like this

THE CLUB: fat toad farm goats milk caramels

Off in the misty rolling green terrain of Vermont is a farm where goats roam freely, grazing the dense patches of prickly grass to their hearts content, trotting off in a herd of white, black, grey a...

24 apr 12 1 person likes this

LUSTING: apolis market bag

Sometimes you grab any old bag and just head to the nearest market. But sometimes, you lust after a bag so beautiful in its simplicity, that it makes you desperate to find a market where you can wand...

24 apr 12 5 people like this

SPOTTED: sugar and flour glass jar diy

Honestly, if I see one more gosh darn perfectly furnished country cottage off somewhere in the pristine rolling hills of Australia, where the sun is always a joyous shade of mustard yellow and everyt...

24 apr 12 10 people like this

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