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Local Blueberries
Where I live in the Pacific Northwest, blueberries… [more] are still draped across bushes, and big flats of blues adorn countless kitchen counters (in season through middle/end of September). In fact,...
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apple cider vinegar recipe (and apple drinking vinegar recipe)
All I know is the corner of my dining room is spewing odor as if it has a place in the conversation. How can one do homework with sour fermenting apples penetrating your nostrils? My poor sons put up...
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Green Tomato Recipes
We are gamblers. Risk-takers. We balance shoulder shrugs against sleepless nights. And year after year we ask ourselves: will they turn red? Anyone who plants tomatoes in the Pacific Northwest is...
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pumpkin recipes and pumpkin puree recipes
Tis the season. Yes – I just said that. Folks might think that phrase is locked up for Christmas but in my little humble kitchen ’tis the season’ is a year round affair. One ‘season’ of food after...
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12 brussels sprout recipes + how to store brussels sprouts
Is it really all about the bacon? I asked a pile of blogging friends for their best brussel sprouts recipes and I confess: you’d think it was a case for “everything it better with bacon.” Brussels...
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California Ripe Olives Tour
On a recent California… [more] Ripe Olive Tour, I enjoyed a whirlwind 2 days of meeting farmers and visiting olive orchards, snapping pics at [olive] plants and eating chef-inspired, olive-themed...
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Christmas holiday 2013 (part 1): cabin in the woods in Yaak, Montana
… [more] I ignore the dead fly floating in a sea of candle wax while it burns. I wake up and have to pee, then close my eyes and will another to run to the nearby creek in below freezing temperatures...
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oxtail recipes – and how one long tail made it through 4 meals.
… [more] We all have sides to ourselves that need to be fed. We have nuances that keep us sane. Habits of comfort, people we call, ways we organize. New year beginnings are a time to revisit our...
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Grandma’s Special Salmon Sauce
… [more] I would get up at 6am with my dad, pull on my boots and add one jacket on top of another. At only 8 years old, I’d fill that dented and well-loved Stanley thermos with hot chocolate – dad had...
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Buy local food online: A storefront for every farm
… [more] Amazing how we grow and evolve. We follow our passions and goals; they evolve and come in and out of focus. For example, I started this blog because I loved food and cooking… it further...
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