Read with Us : Women’s Day Edition

Happy International Women’s Day!

If you’re a lady or wanna be a lady, I hope you’re doing something good for yourself today. If you appreciate the women in your life, I hope you’ll let them know. And no, not by whistling as they walk by (unless they like that?).

We thought we’d take this day as an opportunity to highlight some of the women-related books that we love.

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Ingredient of the Season : Potatoes!

Every season we like to feature a single ingredient and use it in a variety of ways throughout the house, from the food to beauty to art. You can see our full archive of featured ingredients here. And you can see some of our previous potato posts here.

Potato, patato. However you pronounce it, we’re excited to call this tuber our ingredient of the season. Ah the potato, always the side-dish, never the main dish.

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We think this vegetable gets a bad rap as being full of carbs and too bland (without a boatload of salt and butter) to be the centerpiece of a meal. We’re hoping to change that this season with a line-up of simple but delicious meals. Just a little something to bring spuds into the limelight and inspire you to give them a second (or third!) look.  We’re also hoping to entertain you by putting the potato to work in a few unexpected ways…

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Make with Me : Lace Scarf

At the beginning of the year, I encouraged our readers to “make with me“. In that post I shared a few of the many benefits that you may get from picking up a hobby, and I gave you a few simple suggestions for how to turn your hobby into a regular habit (that’s good for you!).

If you follow our Instagram feed or have been a long-time reader, it’s no surprise that my primary hobby is knitting. I always have a project (or ten) in the works. While I don’t need the encouragement to knit more, I’m taking this resolution as a nudge to share more of my projects, in their many phases, on the blog.


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Make with Me : Lace Scarf

This pattern is Goldfinch by Andrea Mowry of Drea Renee Knits.

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