tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21292739442822038302024-03-13T00:36:57.231-04:00Earth To Mother Ship Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-5794987330599144342013-05-10T12:59:00.000-04:002013-05-10T13:01:13.658-04:00A Food Author is BornIt seems my distractions have been many lately and I've had little time to sit and update on all the comings and goings - the BIG NEWS is this:
I'm currently writing for a new FOOD JOURNAL called HOT PINK APRON as a regular contributor and this month of May marks my second article published to the site. I'm having a blast and really am enjoying the new interaction of hobnobbing with Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-51515523380713463812013-03-30T08:40:00.000-04:002013-03-30T08:41:41.072-04:00Squee! I Made the National Post paper AGAIN!
I have to tell you how surprised I am about how much I suddenly love cooking. It's my new creative outlet born from a quest for whole food, clean eating, no preservatives, nothing processed and allergy friendly. This past weekend I catered our yoga retreat for 12 people with ease converting more than one person to eating kale and one woman tried beets for the first time since Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-2724836258321206902013-03-16T12:08:00.001-04:002013-03-16T12:08:32.295-04:00Bumming Around Leon, Nicaragua
Leon, Nicaragua is the closest city to our new home in Salinas Grandes. This is where we will come to do groceries in the big central market or at the Pali which is believe it or not owned by none other than Wal-mart. We spent three days here puttering around exploring the down town core. Leon is not a touristy town it survives on a local economy made up of the Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-68934444796187528622013-03-02T08:31:00.001-05:002013-03-02T08:35:19.789-05:00National Post Gastropost - Bacon VRS Buffalo Cauliflower
Hey Michelle,
Congrats — you made it into today's National Post!
In case you can't pick up a copy of the newspaper,
I've taken a PDF,check it out!
Thanks again for picking sides in our
latest tasty battle, and enjoy the rest
of your weekend.
Leora
Team Gastropost
FOLLOW This Link to see the GASTROPOST IN THE NEWSPAPER March 2, 2013 PAGE TWO
Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-39153716435338216802013-02-28T11:47:00.000-05:002013-02-28T11:47:11.776-05:00So This Happened Yesterday ...
The funny thing was that I was having a bad kitchen day and this meal was the one I pulled out of the hat to save dinner and The National Post's Gastropost thought it looked pretty yummy too.
I've been cooking a lot lately and am really enjoying toying and modifying recipes to suit my gluten free, meat free and dairy free diet. My husband won't eat any of it, he is a meat and cheese Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-69509055702687868232013-02-14T11:49:00.000-05:002013-02-14T11:49:44.135-05:00Operation Freedom Forty
So, this is what operation freedom forty looks like people. Our new house is located nearby the fishing village of Salinas Grandes, which is on the coast of Northern Nicaragua just about a 25 minute drive into the city of Leon.
We were told in December that our house would be turn key move in ready in February. Looks like we'll be moving in next week! Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-30672265496404060372013-02-13T09:28:00.000-05:002013-02-13T09:28:17.230-05:00Hate Grocery Store Plastic Bags? Me Too.If the winter blahs have you trapped in side and you need a project to do I have one for you! Do you have a stock pile of plastic grocery store bags hanging around? You don't have a giant dog to pick up after and use up those plastic bags? Well how about a crochet project!
One of our local artists, Mary Helen Ellis, is a client at the yoga studio where I guide classes. She came Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-63055962498334024822013-02-05T12:54:00.003-05:002013-02-06T08:00:05.869-05:00Casa No Name Salinas Grandes Nicaragua
This is our beach! Isn't it beautiful? The sand is very dark, even black in some areas and the seashells are a stark white lying against the sand. We have yet to show a proper post of the land we have bought and the house we are beginning to build in Salinas Grandes, Nicaragua, so here you are.
Standing on the beach in front of our build looking north.
Standing on Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-41678865852778696962013-02-04T08:43:00.003-05:002013-02-06T08:02:05.086-05:00Beach Dogs in Salinas Grandes
There is no shortage of skinny stray dogs in Nicaragua. When we arrived at the beach in Salinas Grandes to check on our build the first thing to take our hearts were these gorgeous little puppies! I hadn't even seen the beach or our lot yet, you would think I'd be running to look, but no, I got all caught up in puppies! Who can resist a puppy in paradise especially with Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-64438248478832066402013-01-24T20:20:00.002-05:002013-01-27T16:37:32.473-05:00Granada & Las Isletas
We took off from Apoyo Lodge on a Tuesday morning to head into Granada to explore the city center and to take a boat tour through Las Isletas. This day will forever be remembered as the day our three year old talked non stop from sun up to sun down. She was so excited and fascinated by everything we did and saw. She asked us a bazillion questions piled on top of Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-55266871116364884832013-01-14T10:16:00.001-05:002013-01-14T21:52:17.717-05:00Playa Hermosa Nicaragua
This is Playa Hermosa, one of the most beautiful beaches we visited on this trip. It has a gentle beach break good for beginners, occasional surfers and as my hubs Big Daddy P calls it, fat guy long board waves. We headed here so the guys could surf some small waves and get ready for the bigger break out front our house... The weather was cool...I say that and it was about 77 Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-29330688044962839702013-01-12T10:00:00.000-05:002013-01-12T10:00:00.680-05:00Nicaragua the Highlight Package - First Weekend
Feeling old hand now at traveling internationally with our three year old, I was super stoked to finally be able to fit the two of us in one back pack for this trip. We no longer needed to pack the necessities of a baby with us. The stroller stayed home and while the car seat came, it was quickly apparent what a luxury it was. We hit the ground in Managua running, it Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-78480713897628545652013-01-12T09:29:00.000-05:002013-01-12T09:29:17.109-05:00Nicaragua Makes Top Three in the New York Times
You know it's really cool when the universe rears her beautiful head to reaffirm your path.
Check this out you little travel bugs! Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-44989470281160693602013-01-08T11:29:00.001-05:002013-01-08T11:29:46.878-05:00The Writing Floodgates Are Open
A year ago I wrote a post about our 2012 plans ... then I lost it when I was trying to edit the post from my ipad. That pretty much sums up 2012. Buh - Bye. So this past year flew by and in it's rush some pretty monumental developments occurred right beneath our noses. Okay, they were all things we had set into motion, but, after two years of limbo we are starting to move people!
Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-26458450546525388002012-10-10T20:19:00.000-04:002012-11-12T16:16:48.053-05:00Stoooooopid B&EHi remember me?
I'm a gal with so much to write about and a toddler in pre-school in the mornings - so I have actual time to write - and I can't write here in this blog.
Why?
Because while I was on vacation this August and my husband was at work our house was broken into by some little punk who stole our Xbox, my MACBOOK Pro and smashed my daughters piggy bank to steal Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-89490315069668487602012-07-10T09:42:00.000-04:002012-07-10T09:42:02.514-04:00Never Ever Ever Ever Ever
... miss lunch at Rachel's House if you're invited!
I'm pretty certain I don't even need to add words to this page to prove why you should never ever ever miss an invitation to lunch at my friend Rachel's house. Honestly, she puts on the most beautiful spread at every occasion. This luncheon was for our dear friend Alice who was celebrating her 80th birthday! I'm after Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-26160964347330842322012-07-05T09:23:00.002-04:002012-07-05T09:27:18.194-04:00Wave Babies
Last week, on what turned out to be a perfect beach day, my friend Susan; her boys Jonah and Luka, Fin and I headed to Fort Macon Beach on the Atlantic Ocean in Morehead City NC. We arrived in time to picnic lunch and spent the whole day exploring the beach. It was AWESOME!
Happy Mamas
Luka & his Boogie Board
Finner & Luka Dooo
Jonah
Jonah Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-11420748312570499162012-06-19T09:16:00.001-04:002012-06-19T09:21:33.335-04:00John Deere Birthday Party
Let me begin this post by saying the only involvement I had in this party was the cake and some of the food. Otherwise this party was the brainchild of my sister in law Dee. She and her husband live on an awesome horse farm in Eastern NC, our children all have birthdays within a few days of one another so Dee usually does up a party with her friends and our family and we join in.
Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-12020144767766188332012-05-25T15:58:00.000-04:002012-06-19T09:02:38.082-04:00Tractor Cake ....
This year's birthday party theme was John Deere so it called for a TRACTOR CAKE.
I surfed the Internet for cake inspiration and then settled on this basic concept for a cake.
9X11 cake pan
I made a cup cake for the front tire and a small corning wear dish was used for the back tire.
Place the tires on the cake and cut out the cake where the tires will fit Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-36616909568074361322012-05-23T16:40:00.003-04:002012-05-24T14:58:38.624-04:00Recovered the Dining Chairs
It was high time I recover the dining chairs. We have only one dining set and it is a family heirloom and we love it ...being that it is the only dining set in the house we use it every day. I had been pretty lucky about keeping the chair's upholstery in good repair until January when it seemed everything landed on the chairs and by landed I mean the chairs were; peed on (not Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-34237371011897702762012-05-17T17:54:00.002-04:002012-05-17T17:54:54.222-04:00Toddler Tales
Today's GEM from the Mouth of MY Toddler
Me:
Finner there's apple sauce all over my chair!
Fin:
The apple sauce did it all by itselfes.
I fold my face into my shoulder and walk briskly out of the room before I laugh.
Seriously kid. NO ONE is gonna buy that story.
Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-3414012849302805692012-05-16T09:47:00.001-04:002012-05-17T11:30:30.047-04:00Back Yard Bok Bok
For years my husband Steve has been talking about getting a few chickens to raise for eggs and meat. I'm totally on board the whole pets/eggs scenario, but, I don't eat meat and I really don't think I can get past our named backyard brood to eat our birds. I digress, Steve raised chickens when he was a kid and so he has a grasp on the whole operation - this is entirely new to me, Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-83063926617744662342012-03-20T14:19:00.000-04:002012-03-20T14:20:09.633-04:00Anywhere Yoga
Anyone who knows me will tell you I am a yoga addict. I love studying, teaching and practicing yoga. I live in yoga clothes, read yoga books, listen to music to set my classes to and here I am posing for an editorial on yoga in Washington Magazine!
I'm pretty stoked.
Will post the rest of the article shortly.... we are in the process of moving houses.
Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-44032161126974832562012-03-09T11:40:00.001-05:002012-03-09T11:40:53.665-05:00What I DoHonestly, this has been a real question mark for me in the past year. Everyone you meet wants to know what you do, meaning for work, money, career of course. I used to do all kinds of amazing projects in my line of work. I am a TV producer by trade. There was always a next project lined up to go to upon wrapping the first one - even if I spaced them out to allow for a brief Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129273944282203830.post-25827000024338707922012-03-04T09:50:00.002-05:002012-03-04T10:08:21.431-05:00Repurposing - A Work in Progress
Ha -ha, I just came back to work on this post and realized the title is a metaphor for my life. I digress, the purpose of this post is to show you all what I've been working on for the past few months. I seem to get going and then life interrupts and I have a repose from my crafty work and then I come back to it.
This is an antique frame I picked up and redid as a wedding Mother Ship + inFINciblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11076394402772267462noreply@blogger.com3