Category: Life

  • Rookie on the Blog…

    Rookie on the Blog…

    I know. This is a rookie thing to do. But, I just have to share, because there is only one first time that your photos get published in a magazine.…

  • Five on Five

    It’s been quite some time… since September in fact, since I’ve done a non-cooking related meme, so I was quite happy to oblige when Melissa, author of one of my…

  • Sitka & Spruce, Take 100.

    Sitka & Spruce, Take 100.

    I miss my kitchen. I’ve been working on a restaurant project now that continues through the next month, and eating out almost every night has been a requirement. And the…

  • Menu For Hope III: Up for a Nice Cup?

    Menu For Hope III: Up for a Nice Cup?

    Yay! It’s Menu for Hope time again! Very likely one of my favorite blogging events from last year. Really. It’s foodie-shopping and doing something great for so many lives. How…

  • Trufflicious (SHF #25) Day 1: Dark Chocolate & Lemon

    Trufflicious (SHF #25) Day 1: Dark Chocolate & Lemon

    It’s Sugar High Friday time again! Yes, I know it’s not Friday yet… but when I saw that the theme was truffles, hosted this month by The Passionate Cook, I…

  • Small Bounties: The West Seattle Farmer's Market

    Small Bounties: The West Seattle Farmer's Market

    I miss all the photos on my blog. I have a whole heap of restaurant reviews that I need to start posting, all of which will be sadly devoid of…

  • A Whole New Flavor: Cookbook 411 is now Cook & Eat

    I got a bit of an itch this weekend to do something about my foodblog. Updating the design has been on my list for some time now… and inspite of…

  • Happy Belated Blog Day!

    Oops. I’m off traveling, and missed the fact that it was blog day a few days ago. Actually, I was completely oblivious to the event until I got such a…

  • Five things to eat before you die

    Five things to eat before you die

    Matt tagged me for this meme created by the incomparable Melissa of Traveler’s Lunchbox over a week ago, and I’ve been all tangled up in knots about it… not because…

  • Elsewhere: Coffee, Tea & other Tasty Drinks

    I’m just back in town from a week off at a family reunion in Illinois… while I’m getting caught up on everything, here are some of my recent posts on…

  • Elsewhere: Favorites

    I have a lot of favorite food blogs. I mean A LOT. You can see from my list there down there (you’ll have to scroll past the cookbooks) on the…

  • Happy Easter

    Today is both Easter and my daughter’s 12th birthday. She has started calling it “earthday” as a result. Have a great day!