snacks

Some snacks from this week:

roasted cauliflower and balsamic vinegar

apples and peanut butter

truffles with almonds and pink salt

We get very snacky when we work. Having the kitchen so close (about 5 steps) makes it hard to resist trying new combinations.

Ellie

(lovely lady found here)

smitten

These are a few outtakes from our video for Kinfolk magazine. We have a few summer picnics in our future and we are dying to take this salad. We found the recipe here, where we find ourselves wanting to make pretty much every recipe we read. We are thinking this might be next.

candlelight

Spending the evening in candlelight, and maybe by the fire, with no tv, talking, telling stories, letting the lit-up world go by without us, expands the hours, and alters the kind of thoughts and conversations we have.

I have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing-their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling-their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses.

-Jeanette Winterson, "Why I Adore Night"

An idea that that insists upon gathering those close to you and testing the shadowy influence of candlelight. Inspiration for such gatherings can be found in Kinfolk magazine-which comes out today! When we got ours in the mail we felt like kids poring over every page-we kept pointing to beautiful images or reading passages out loud to each other. We are excited to have our video included in the online version of the magazine-check it out here.

(quote via le projet d'amour)

picnic

We have a friend who gives shockingly good gifts. For our wedding (almost two years ago, time flies!) she gave us this amazing picnic kit, complete with all the necessary items for a successful picnic. (suspenders! dreamcatcher! keds!) Now we just need to whip up a few deviled eggs and some lavender lemonade and we will be ready to go.