For the first time in a long while Scott and I had the whole day off together. We were going to bike to downtown, but it's already pretty cold outside so we took the bus.  I've really been a wuss this year when it comes winter biking. In fact, it's not even winter yet and the bus has become my primary means of transportation. I figure that between the nine months of biking and three months of taking the bus I save a lot of money.    We decided to eat at Hell's Kitchen , one of our favorite breakfast joints in town. Since it was already well past noon I had lunch instead. Brooke of course always eats breakfast before lunch. For what seems like the millionth time, we got one of the "worst seats in the house." We love sitting there because you get a free carmel roll. Everything is made from scratch at Hell's, so you know that they have "damn good food." Scott ordered the Reuben. It was really good. Brook...

Our local month didn't turn out exactly how I thought it would. I think we'll try again next year when we don't have a wedding to plan and were not in the middle of the Northwoods for a week. Still, I am proud of how we did. Well, we finally got our freezer this week. After having all our food stored at our neighbors we finally got it all back. Our new freezer is already full, which left our main freezer with free space. The first thing I did was make lemon-lavender popsicles .    The honey that's in the pops reminds me of lemon-honey cough drops. The honey mellows out the sour nature of the lemon. We've had a few harvests this week from our garden. Our first tomato! Lots of red Thai chilies and our only 2 ears of corn. Note to self: Plant more corn next year.  Scott actually had off today and made me breakfast. I've been going back to Mark Bittman's everyday pancake ever since my sister introduced them to me this summer. They...