.:Let’s Simmer:.

So we’ve hit that time of year when we “fall back”.  Night sets in a little sooner, and the air stays a tad bit crisper all day long.  With the onset of the cold season, (my favorite season) I find myself hustling home to curl up on the couch, fuzzy slippered and a warm bowl of soup in hand.

Today my bike ride home was weighed down by my trip to whole foods, and no joke, I was dragging! ugh.  Cold and windy, bit of a drizzle and not a spec of color in the sky.  It was on this dreary ride I dreamed up this recipe exchange with my friends and family.  At times I find myself sort of baffled by the diversity of my friends and family, but rather than do a tug of war to reconcile where I am and where I come from, I’ve decided to let them come together in the kitchen.

This is more than a blog, this is a project — a collaborative effort, tying together the loose ends of all the friends I’ve made in the last couple of years.  

Hearts to the Midwest.