I’ve been wanting to start my day off with more protein, but scrambling an egg, or making an omelet takes more time than I usually have in the morning and…

I know it’s just barely February, but it felt like spring today and inspired this dish which I’ve decided is going to be the perfect Summer breakfast. It also doesn’t…

For a few months I’ve been putting together the story of building the Memorial House, which means spending a lot of time in the archives of DIYdiva, and one of…

When I finally decided to formalize DIY Life into an actual part of my website I was hoping the mindset that’s taken me through seven years of documenting projects and…

Let me just say, it was a happy happy day in my life when I found frozen butternut squash in the freezer aisle of Whole Foods. My usual method of…

This blend of spices could very possibly be the key to my personal happiness. The origin for this blend of awesomeness was a flavored butter recipe for sweet corn, which,…

I know, it looks eerily similar to this recipe, and it is. A lot of my more recent kitchen experiments are variations on other recipes I like but that need…

I don’t usually do New Year’s resolutions in the traditional sense of the word, although for a long time I would give something up for the year as an exercise…

Next to building stuff (which started around the time I was two, and hasn’t stopped since) taking pictures is my longest running hobby. It’s also my most-often neglected hobby, unless…

The big secret here is that this smoothie looks scary (and when I first read the recipe on Whole Foods website, I was like, spinach and kale, really? That’s going…