by Gigi | Jan 3, 2026 | Food, FoodWISE, FoodWISE blog
Our next-door neighbors on Summer Street started the little coffeehouse, using a precious copper espresso machine that had been in the family for decades. Avellino, today, is still producing rich coffees and flavorful pastries. In the image here, a berry muffin and... 
by Gigi | Dec 27, 2025 | FoodWISE, FoodWISE blog
Move over potatoes….gnocchi with ricotta is both easy and confidence-building…thanks to Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman. A version of that recipe is here. Deb’s recipe using spinach is here. I prefer without, as below. Soft, pillowy…... 
by Gigi | Dec 15, 2025 | Finding Balance blog, FoodWISE, FoodWISE blog
Here’s one of our forays into homemade tomato sauce. We have others, including using food processors! As you can see, we decided to remove seeds for compost. Sometimes we use my mom’s press for this, other times just a small sieve. Others, of course,... 
by Gigi | Nov 30, 2025 | Food, FoodWISE, FoodWISE blog
Bounty! We’re imagining even greater harvests with our new greenhouse (soon to be functional; more on that later). These, from the bounty of Obergeckler in Germany—a town in Bitburg-Prüm, in Rhineland-Palatinate, western Germany, during my last trip: Luscious... 
by Gigi | Nov 15, 2025 | FoodWISE, FoodWISE blog
A bountiful harvest of beans with a second planting (and garlic and dill) greeted me upon my return from Germany and Switzerland this fall. Dilly beans is our little farm’s “cash crop” and partner Jim is a master of supervising their assembly and... 
by Gigi | Oct 30, 2025 | FoodWISE, FoodWISE blog
The role and importance of warmth and thermoregulation in somatic health in plants and animals was the focus of the Natural Sciences section’s annual conference on connection and transformation in nature. The image below features the Glashaus in the distance,...