If by any chance you follow us on Instagram or have just been around here long enough to get to know our family, then you know that we love to eat. We cherish good food. Honestly, I somehow managed to completely LUCK out and score a man that not only knows his way around a kitchen-he’d prefer to just live there. The boy can cook up a mean meal…and he does it with so much love. He takes pride in researching, teaching us, and feeding us the best stuff around. So I got this idea that maybe it’s time to share this gift that he has with others. (*Note: He would be mortified that I just called it a “gift,” but truly, it is…and I don’t have it.)

The more I thought about it, the more I encouraged him to do something with this passion! He needed to somehow share this love and knowledge of food and nutrition. And so, the concept of Baba’s Table was born. His site will SOON be LIVE and we really hope that you will follow along, and that (hopefully) it will help you out in the kitchen. It will be a place where recipes from all over the world will be shared. A place that focuses on getting people back to the basics of WHOLE FOODS from nature, and working on cutting out processed. A place where old world tradition and wisdom are reborn. Most of all, a place where the entire family is brought into the kitchen- where together they enjoy the entire process of making a meal happen, and together sit down to reap the benefits of their labor; learning true appreciation of experience.

Baba’s Table will center around food, the family unit, and true nourishment. We welcome you to be a part!

And for fun….

Our family was just featured in a GORGEOUS local online magazine called 513 {eats}!! This is a Cincinnati based online magazine which beautifully showcases wonderful places to eat around our city. We were honored to have them into our home and kitchen, and have our family featured in their summer issue…..

Gina and Ilene, the main gals behind the beautiful online magazine, put together such a gorgeous collection of photographs and words. I encourage you to look through the entire issue, and you will find our article in the table of contents under “En Famille.”

CLICK THE PHOTO BELOW TO GO TO THE ONLINE MAGAZINE:

We just returned late last night from a whirlwind trip to our Nation’s Capital. What an exhausting, hot-as-hell, overpacked, incredibly FUN weekend we had!  We were going for business….one of our wedding couples invited us to DC to photograph their engagement session, but since the kids have been studying the U.S. in depth this year in homeschool, we decided to pack them up for the journey too! I was super jazzed for a road trip. I absolutely LOVE road trips. This one did not disappoint. Besides Priya’s moments of feeling car sick on curvy mountains, I’ve decided my kids are ideal road-trippers, even without TV or any electronics.  They were troopers for over 9 hours there, and back. Of course, we needed someone to watch the kids while we were working, so Brett’s brother Jason agreed to come be a part of the adventure too.

Here are some of the iphone pics we snagged which you may have already seen if you follow me or Brett on Instagram…..

From Thursday morning-Monday night we….
-drove 9.5 hours
-photographed a posh home in Georgetown
-walked
-took a trolley tour of the whole city
-realized the AC had blown in the place we were renting
-sweated and laughed that it was in the 90’s all weekend
-ate Turkish food
-photographed an awesome couple for a day
-walked
-visited 4 or 5 museums (it’s a little blurry now)
-ate TONS of gelato, many times
-walked and sweated more
-watched the kids try Ethiopian food for the first time
-then we all tried Native American food for the first time
-photographed a super cute family session
-dropped Uncle J at the airport and hug/kissed/thanked him for being so amazing
-drove 9 hours back
*It should be noted, I also popped a couple Ibuprofens during this timeframe.

We lovingly nicknamed the trip, “One big hot useless shower.”
It was a a super great adventure.