We're off to San Francisco, Andras, Greta and I, for the wedding of my darling friend Lillian . It's always exciting when one of...

{Hameeda and Greta, summer 2011} This week, I bought Greta baby food , the kind in a tube, for not quite the first time, but almost. I...

{ recycled canvas eco lunch-sack from a little lark, etsy } Writing the Clean and Green Ingredients portion of my new book, which I just f...

Last summer, our first in our house upstate, we chanced upon a roadside  plant sale  with a sign advertising raspberries, $5 . Baby Greta ...

 {Photo by Dana Gallagher for Whole Living} What if I told you all the produce in this beautiful plate of pasta was grown in just 8 square ...

In honor of Earth Day 2012  {this Sunday, April 22}, the second installment of my favorite new cookbooks is all about inspiring you to grow...

My friend Andrea Nguyen has said,  Anthropologie  is the holy grail of lifestyle books. It's also a communal happy place, one of my fav...

Depending on where you live, the first serious day of gardening season may be Easter, or Memorial Day {or if you're one of the lucky so...

I hate to go all girlie on you, but if you'll let me for just a second, there's something about a pretty shop and a gathering of gi...

  {Photo by FRANÇOIS DISCHINGER} Pssst.... I should be sleeping right now, but I'm going on The Martha Stewart Show tomorrow, and I...

Okay, I'm officially declaring this southern love  month. And one of my absolute favorite things to come out of the south since the bu...

{photo by Sara Remington for The Newlywed Cookbook } There is nothing, nothing I love more than a full house. A house full of chubby...

Hi friends. Thank you so much for coming back to read. You deserve a big thank you for humoring me. I know my site has been all The Newl...

This is Grace, my goddaughter and niece, our little dreamer girl who's been stealing hearts since day one. I don't know anyone who ...

I've waited too long to tell you about my darling cousin Allison Jagtiani , creator and founder of  Goji Gourmet , a lovely line of ...

I've told you all that I'm a southern girl at heart, right? And, if you have my new book , you might have noticed the shrimp-and-g...

{photo by Sara Remington} "In the end, the love you get is equal to the love you give."  John Lennon  {a famous misquote}  ...