Food

Honoring Mom

When I was a teen, my mom, sister and I would go to the South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa as an escape from Riverside. I’d dress my best, do my hair and makeup and we’d go and browse high-end shops. Any name brand designer store was fun since nothing existed like that in Riverside […]

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Squirrel

Looking into Our View Garden, I saw a brown head of something that wasn’t my dog. I thought it was a gopher, since moles or gophers had recently invaded our front yard. But I looked more closely and saw it was a squirrel! A squirrel? I’ve never seen a squirrel in my yard before. Well,

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Our View Gardens

We get our weekly CSA share from Fairview Gardens. When the kids were ooohing over the strawberries I brought home, I told them to go harvest thier own strawberries in “OurView Gardens.” They liked that.

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Blackberry Shortcake

Wandering around Costco, as I do every weekend of my parental life, one of the free food samples was strawberry shortcake. The product to be purchased was the sponge cake cups for the strawberries to sit in. A 16-count container of cakes was more than I wanted in the house since I would proceed to

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Food circle of life

We got a worm compost bin over 10 years ago but failed at making it work. Yes, it takes work. We have been mostly successful composting our fruit and veggie scraps for almost 5 years now. Being vegan for 5 years and vegetarian for the past 1+ year, we generate a lot of raw material

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