“Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.”~Hermann Hesse~

Along with some impressive pictures she’s taken, Spiritual Dragonfly posted this beautiful quote about trees from Hermann Hesse’s book Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte on her blog today. (I will not pretend to know what that means!) She was kind enough to pull out the bit in the book it was taken from for me to post.

I love trees of all kinds because they provide what every person needs: roots for knowing who you are and where you came from, and tall branches from which to sprout your wings and fly knowing you’ll always be able to shelter there. It’s a very common theme when we’re talking about things we…

About this time last year, I posted a Blue Crab and Chipotle Tabasco Bisque that quickly because one of my most-cooked soups (and this is coming from a guy who cooks a lot of soup). I’ve been playing around with the formula a bit, to the point where I felt it was appropriate to post another one using shellfish (and that Shellfish Stock recipe from last week).

Quick reminder – I am giving away eight $25 Costco gift cards, and the giveaway ends on Thursday, so jump on it if you haven’t already.

And now for the big news: I found out that my cookbook, Paleo Takeout, made it onto the New York Timesbest seller list for July! How cool is that? Now I need to go through all of my social media profiles and add my new title to everything. I’m super excited and tremendously…