I have all the Thanksgiving recipes you could ever wish for at my Thanksgiving Round-Up here at my site. I leave these recipes on my site up year round because I don’t want the holiday meals be the reason you get off track. I’ve never done a cranberry sauce before now because I personally was never attached to this element of the meal. But here I am, making a cranberry sauce…a different kind of sauce.

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“The Silverado Trail strawberry stand is open,” a friend emailed me earlier this year. “Summer is coming.” He is not the only one in the valley who waits for the banners to go up, announcing strawberries are in at the Saetern Family Farm on the Silverado Trail, just beyond the intersection where Trancas Street turns into Monticello Road. Mouang Saetern opened the stand 23 years ago, and on a busy Sunday afternoon, as cars were pulling in and out of the parking spaces to claim their fresh berries, she took time to talk about her idea and how it grew.

One of my favorite parts of having kids is when you can start introducing them to the books and movies you liked as a child. My six-year-old brought home a Babysitters Club book from the school library a few weeks ago and while my first reaction was “wait, you’re six, are you even going to understand this?” my heart also sang with excitement, because how thrilling it is to finally be able to discuss important topics in 80s pop culture—by which I mean Claudia Kishi keeping junk food under her bed—with my kid!

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