We created this recipe for Chai Oatmeal Crunch that you can make on a Sunday evening and have breakfast ready to go when you wake up on Monday and for a few days afterwards too. If you’re still sleepy while you’re eating, you might convince yourself that someone else made if for you.

We’ve hatched a way to combine embroidery with stationery and stitch our greetings. Challenging us all to stitch outside the embroidery hoop, we have created 3 designs to stitch onto blank greeting cards.

After returning from the farmers market with a generous bag of plums, a friend called to offer some more from the tree in her backyard. Two hours into the picking, she hadn’t made a dent in the crop and wanted to know if we were good for 10 pounds. Who says no to that?

Some food hacks are too good not to be shared - like this recipe for dulce de leche. 

A springtime addition to a simple, classic year-round recipe that leaves you with plenty of time for fun.

Sometimes the whole truly is greater than the sum of its parts.  One dish meals have a way of creating new flavors that you can't arrive at unless all of your ingredients mingle and bring out the best in one another. 

Have you heard?  Grace had a nip and tuck.  No, not that kind!  We've trimmed down our regular-sized Grace Apron to offer our petite customers a size that makes them feel more comfortable.  It's no secret, we all come in different shapes and sizes.  Our Grace Apron is designed to fit most women, but now we offer two options to flatter even more body types.

While many parts of our country were still covered with a veil of frost, we were inspired to create this beginner embroidery project of stitched blossoms to bring some springtime optimism inside. 

Now that November is upon us, enticing scents of holiday spices are starting to sneak in and the spirit of making and sharing is front and center.  

Oh beloved heirloom tomato, another moment on the lips and you'll be gone again until next summer.  No tomato in January will every steal our hearts the way your seductive jewel tones win us over. 

A grilled pizza’s thin, slightly charred crust is as close to making wood-fired pizza at home as you can get.  Better still, it can be a vastly different experience each time you make it, depending on your toppings.

In the spirit of celebrating summer and keeping things simple, we're sharing a template for our T&W Summer House Salad.  Who knew you could get so excited about lettuce?  But with the range of colors and flavors available at the summer markets, you really can.

 We've gone from three seasons of SAD (seasonally affected disorder) to GLAD (giddy, laughing and delighted) now that the sun is back out. We've finally had an opportunity to eat our first outdoor meals and we're not going back inside.

The sensory feast of summer awakens fond memories from our childhoods.  Outdoor sights and smells trigger summer camp memories like canoeing across the lake to the boys camp, telling scary stories by the campfire, and making arts & crafts with old school tools and materials.

There’s Sassy Water and then there’s Sassier Water.

There's more than one way to crack an egg.  In this case, we crackled some eggs.  Traditional Chinese tea eggs, or marbled eggs, sparked an idea for us.

It's said that the airy meringue topped with whipped cream and fruit was created for the famous Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova during her tour of Australia and New Zealand in the 1920's.  Our version skips the eggs in the meringue and omits the heavy cream in the whipped topping, but lacks for neither.

Moving away from heavy roasted dishes and dreaming about some simply assembled meals that we normally share during warmer months, we set out to reexamine the mezze plate from a different viewpoint, using seasonal ingredients.

We have imagined a Hand & Heart Warming Pillow which is a perfect use for our little fabric scraps and we hope yours too.  It’s a small token of us to share with those who warm our hearts.

Get ready to dust off your superhero cape if you haven't worn it lately.  Here's a plan to walk through the kitchen door, flip on the oven and get things rolling to enjoy this flavor bomb of Flank Steak with Pomegranate Glaze and Smashed Potatoes.  Your dining companions will shower you with praise and they'll never know it was one of the easiest tasks you accomplished today.

What is more comforting than being able to pop out of a snowstorm and into a friend or neighbor’s house for a nice warm bowl of soup and some great conversation?

A yuzu tree in full blossom cast its fragrant spell on us this summer while we were barreling through a plant nursery looking to pick up something completely unrelated.  It led to our most popular recipe.

In case we ever call you "honey," we're not trying to be sassy.  It means that you are very precious to us.  Recently we learned that it takes 550 bees visiting 2 million flower blossoms to create 1 pound of honey.  How's that for precious? 

If there is one ingredient to have in your kitchen that is most like fairy dust, it would be fennel pollen.

Things to cook with eggplant when you accidentally buy eight of them.

Quilting circles were probably the original social media platform.  Plus it allows you to be creative without burning your eyeballs at the computer. There's a reason that traditions like this have been passed down through centuries.

Thanks to our Portland friend Diane Morgan, the James Beard and IACP award-winning author, we are making and sharing her recipe for Chunky Salmon, Corn, and Potato Chowder.

Oregon’s beloved Douglas fir trees serve as a lush backdrop to the lavender fields and berries ripening on their vines.

A message in a bottle doesn’t always wash up on shore. Send special thoughts in this unique way.

Sometimes, it's not what you add to make something better, it's what you take away - like the top slice of bread.

We thought of creating a little stash of hostess gifts to have available when someone graciously invites us over for an impromptu gathering.  Regular hosts consistently put others before themselves.  So here is a little something to remind them to pamper themselves in return for treating others.

When you were a kid, didn't you wish that the week was flip-flopped and that the weekend was five days long instead?  We still wish for that.  Who wouldn't mind a few extra days of  moving at a slower pace and paying a little more attention to living well.

Ever dine on one of those crazy gastronomic meals with tons of courses?  Each course is more complex than the previous, with dessert usually culminating into a work of art.  Just when you think you've taken your last rich and unctuous bite of the cheese course, unexpectedly, out come les petites gourmandises.  

If you mentioned to someone how transformative it felt to clean out your closet, could you imagine the look you'd get in return?

Good health, happiness and simplicity - that's what we should have wished you for the new year!  Ever notice that when something looks simple, it actually takes way more effort to do it?  How about reverse engineering simple so that the results only seem like you broke a sweat.  That resolution tops our list.  

We're looking forward to the luxury that New Year's Day offers us. Definitely no alarm clocks and possibly pajamas all day. Maybe it's a desire to accomplish at least one thing, but going for a walk always feels like a virtuous cause.  (In that case, we'll throw a sweater on over our jammies and hope no one notices.)

You will never mistake these marshmallows for those that come out of a bag.  
 

Every so often one of the Thread & Whisk gal pals sends us a photo text from the market.  It's usually an exotic fruit or veg and it's followed by, "What do you do with this?"

Dessert to go that will definitely be savored.

A twist on a traditional Monday dinner in the South.

Musicians do it.  Dancers do it.  Cooks and bakers do it too.  Start with something simple and classic.  Add a flourish or a twist.  Alter the mood.  Create something new that refreshes your appreciation for something that's already done so well. 

Coming home from a trip to the Adriatic Coast to find the grocery store loaded with figs was a delight.

Summer is good for the soul. It gives us the excuse to slow down and savor life a bit. You might even capture some digital moments in an analog way.

Bring home a bag with the intent of making something special and find yourself peachless once the word spreads around the house that they are particularly juicy.

Paris is a special place for us.  Several years ago during a trip to Paris, a seed got planted that would sprout into Thread & Whisk.  Sometimes it's just getting on a plane and breaking routine that can put you into a different mindset.  Even more so, when the destination is so rooted in tradition, it inspires the two of us to reinterpret, reimagine and explore our own takes on classic form in design and cuisine.

What is it that makes dads tick?  They are a quirky bunch, but our lives wouldn't be the same without them.  They each have their own unique talents.  That's what makes them special to us.

Food/fast/here/now.  Dinner, BAM!

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."  The writer Mary Shelley was onto something when she spoke those words in the 1800s.  

If someone offered you a warm scone every day at 4pm, you'd drop everything to observe ritual wouldn't you?  

The Japanese word kokoro is as diffuse to translate as it is to describe. The literal translation in English is heart, but really, it is so much more.

Romanesco entered my life in adulthood.  Had it shown up earlier, my life could have taken a much different path.

"Come quickly, I am tasting the stars," Dom Pérignon called out to his fellow monks after sampling the beginnings of the heavenly effervescence we would come to know as champagne.  More than three centuries later, the pop of a champagne cork speaks for itself when you want to attract a crowd.  It signals that the party has started. 

The thing that inspires us most about cooking is going to the farmers market.

It’s Thread & Whisk’s favorite day of the year.  We couldn’t have invented a better concept than Thanksgiving.  Pick a weekday during a dreary month, cook up a ton of amazing food, and invite your friends to enjoy the feast while reflecting and giving thanks.  How about that for a brief moment of grace?  It’s a whole day devoted to it.

There is the reason we assume that friends won't divulge their secret spot for mushroom hunting.  We figure that they think it won’t be a secret any more.  There is a kernel of truth in that.  

When your neighbor knocks and asks if you need any extra chanterelles…