Oh, hey! I hope you are doing wonderfully and not going anywhere but to happy places in your mind or like maybe the back yard.
I know, I know. It's a lot right now.
...Make Your Own Ham For Easter!
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How To Make Baby Food Purees With No Recipe
You buy pouches! Obviously.
We are in the thick of baby feeding! It's so much fun. I realize not everyone gives a hoot about baby food, but I've all of a sudden been inundated with targeted baby food ads for some company that charges OVER FOUR DOLLARS for a jar of baby food.
No, just no. I buy a good amount of baby food to supplement what I make for Will, but I do find that making it myself is cheap and takes hardly any time at all with the tiniest bit of planning. I also don't use recipes because HE'S A BABY but I want him to BE AN ADULT at some point, so I puree regular food with enough water to make it a puree and that is literally the recipe.
You're welcome.
...Green Tomato Jam
Easy green tomato jam recipe that comes together quickly with the help of a food processor! This is a great way to use up green tomatoes at the end of summer. Onions in this recipe add great umami, and I love this with crackers or bread and sharp cheese.
I feel like this is a new trendy thing in the world, do you? Jams or jellies that are sweet but savory and go with savory stuff. I'm talking tomato jam on burgers, bacon jam (?) over pimento cheese, that kind of thing. Is it a southern thing? a soon-to-be-passe thing? I don't know. What I do know, however, is that it is all of a sudden feeling like summer is ending very quickly. Jay and I were walking to lunch yesterday (there's a taco place that's mayyyyybe 10 minutes on foot from our house and it's become our new Sunday outing) and talking about how the weather feels all of a sudden very different. I say that it feels like summer has broken, kind of like a fever. The humidity goes away, the temperature has dropped 5-10 degrees, and the sun is warm but not so piercing.
It's also the time of year where produce that was amazing 3 weeks ago is somewhat lackluster, like the sad dry tomato plants in our yard that are trying so hard to still produce fruit but it's just not great anymore. The red tomatoes we get are still delicious, but they seem to not ripen as quickly, or if they do they'll rot faster when we bring them inside.
...#tbt DIY Gifts
I realized the other day that while, yes, it's only December 8, I have very few Christmas gifts planned, and ordering pictures of Beck and buying a bunch of frames at TJ Maxx can only work for so many people so many times, you know? 
I love DIY Christmas gifts and try to do them when I can. Sometimes it works, sometimes ain't nobody got time for that. Here are some of my favorites! They include varying degrees of cost and difficulty, but are all pretty lovely and thoughtful, if I do say so myself.
Also there's nothing wrong with pictures of cute kids in frames, that's for damn sure.
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Baby Eating Part 2 (recipes!)
In case you missed it yesterday, our fav gear and kind of how we go about food with Beck. 
It is the day of baby food making! I love it so much. When we were planning how and what Beck would eat I knew I wanted to make as much stuff as possible for her for exactly one reason: cost. Cost to us, cost to the environment, all of the things. Babies (at least ours) produce a crazy amount of trash with diapers, wipes, and OMG YOU GUYS THE PAPER TOWEL USE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Baby food packaging just was going to add something to our output, so I really wanted to avoid that as much as possible. Plus, baby food is so expensive, and throwing frozen peas in a blender seemed easy. And it is!
I've kind of made a lot of this up as I've gone, and some things have worked and some haven't, but, behold, some of my lame cooking methods for Beck.
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