Hello, and welcome to another My Week on Wednesday! The Year Wheel has turned again. Last weekend we celebrated Halloween, or Samhain (I pronounce it it “sah-win”), the last of three Harvest Festivals. Samhain literally means “summer’s end”, and is generally considered to be the Celtic New Year. We are … Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to another My Week on Wednesday! The year wheel is turning: Halloween, the last of the Harvest Festivals, is on Friday. That means that next week we will have a new cover picture, and that our “theme-style post” experiment is at an end. What did you think? … Continue reading
Hello, and welcome to another My Week on Wednesday! The weather has gone all October on us… which is to be expected, since it is October. The wind is damp and strong, yanking the leaves from the trees and tossing them into puddles. The nights are dark and full … Continue reading
This soup is a simple soup that is easy to throw together on a nippy fall day and has Comfort Food written all over it. Cock-a-Leekie Soup is an old Scottish soup made with leeks, chicken stock, and prunes (yes, really!) that dates back to the 16th century and is … Continue reading
Welcome to another My Week on Wednesday! Remember how I said last week that we were changing things up a little bit for My Week on Wednesday? Instead of just me listing a bunch of random blogs that I’ve visited, we are going to have weekly themes — last week’s … Continue reading
Once upon a time when I mixed up my first batch of Homemade Pumpkin Spice Mix, I made it for this recipe. Little did I know that this recipe would prove illusive beyond belief. I wanted a piece of pumpkin pie in a coffee cup. End of story, thank you … Continue reading
With the cold weather approaching, and longer nights, brisk days, and Halloween looming near, I am pretty sure you cannot have too many warming drink recipes up your sleeve. And what makes a better warming drink than Pumpkin Spice… something? Last week I made up some Homemade Pumpkin Spice Mix, … Continue reading
So what do real food, urban homesteader bloggers (who walk to pick their kids up from school) do in the afternoon? They try to find ways to legitimately inject a bit of alcohol into their days. Not every day. But sometimes. You know what I mean… how many of those … Continue reading
And Pumpkin Spice week continues over here at Once Upon a Time in a Bed of Wildflowers! If you haven’t already seen my Homemade Pumpkin Spice Mix, be sure to check it out… because you’re going to need to make some (don’t worry, it takes about two seconds) for … Continue reading
‘Tis the season of woolly sweaters, apple picking, and pumpkin spice everything. So I’m doing a little series of some of my favorite pumpkin spice recipes… done Real Food style, of course. 😉 Because I love a warm, spicy mug of coffee on a brisk morning as much as the … Continue reading
