I absolutely drool and envy the pure gorgeous that is Serena’s life. Beautiful surroundings, home, family, pantry and food mixed in with a liberal dose of love. Who could ask for more?

“Life on the prairie is good.”

My family and I have been lucky enough to call the prairie just outside of Spokane, Washington our home. It’s an area that “moves” me in ways that I find hard to describe. I think Teddy Roosevelt said it best when he said, “Anyone can love a mountain, but it takes a soul to love the prairie.”

We’ve raised our children in our happy home, filled with light.

And a pantry that made me smile every time I opened it.

This summer, we began building a new home, the farmhouse of our dreams, just a few miles away, surrounded by orchards that my boys and I visit several times a week in the summer.

(image by John Granen)

I love that I can walk next door to my neighbor’s farm and pick fresh strawberries any time I like. Or walk down the road for fresh corn, carrots, apples, peaches, plumbs, hazlenuts, pumpkins, apricots, berries, and squash.

Our neighbor farms our property, rotating crops of pumpkins, corn, and strawberries.

Much of my spare time is spent in the kitchen, baking to my heart’s content. It’s what I love to do.

(Image by John Granen, from my cookbook, The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen).

And I love sweets the best.

(Image by John Granen, from my cookbook, The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen).

(Image by John Granen, from my cookbook, The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen).

And I always say that I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. Life on the prairie is good.

(Image by John Granen, from my cookbook, The Farm Chicks in the Kitchen).

(You can enter to win a basket of goodies including Serena’s fabulous new cook book AND a Kitchen Aid mixer starting on Friday for our ‘Blue Plate Special’ weekly giveaway! Make sure you tune in! And don’t forget that you still have time to enter this week’s Blue Plate Special featuring Leigh Standley and a Le Creuset 6.5 quart pan!)

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