by Kelli Donley | Aug 31, 2008 | Domestic Art, Happy Hippie, June Cleaver, Kitchen Talk, Recipes, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
So, you are going celebrating a three-day fabulous summer weekend with a BBQ. May I make a suggestion? Take an hour while the meat is marinating, the beer is cooling and the cake is in the oven to make homemade BBQ sauce. This is a family recipe that I can promise BBQ...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 26, 2008 | Get Fit, Goals, Happy Hippie, Journal, Reduce
Call me a sucker, but lookie what I just bought: May I present, Ms. Olive Oil. Aptly named because she is a mean, green, healthy machine. We’ll just call her Olive for short. Holy guacamole! Isn’t she lovely? Granted, she’s not a Townie and I’m...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 26, 2008 | Get Fit, Happy Hippie, Journal, Reduce
I’ve been dreaming of buying a new bike. I gave Esme away because the fit wasn’t right and after spending weeks of my life on Ruby, I wasn’t willing to ride with a cramped bike. Riding Ruby to work isn’t practical for a dozen reasons, namely...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 24, 2008 | Domestic Art, Happy Hippie, Kitchen Talk, Recycle, Reuse
The first jars of renewal project requires a bit of time to prepare — hence its place in the lineup. The December 2007 issue of Sunset magazine featured a myriad of ideas on what to do with all those lemons us living in the southwestern US would soon be seeing....
by Kelli Donley | Aug 21, 2008 | Domestic Art, Happy Hippie, June Cleaver, Kitchen Talk, Recycle, Reduce, Reuse
What to do with all those jars? Tempe doesn’t recycle glass in my neighborhood, so I’m often scratching my head in my kitchen trying to figure out how to put yet another perfectly good glass jar into use instead of into the trash. Let’s just say...
by Kelli Donley | Aug 12, 2008 | Domestic Art, Happy Hippie, June Cleaver, Kitchen Talk
Roasted garlic hummus. This is the first time I’ve cooked chickpeas and made the entire recipe from scratch. The result is good, but not worthy of the extra hour of cooking. Canned chickpeas are a-okay. Vegan brownies. Also my first time making this recipe and...
