Category: Recipes

  • Plum CupPies

    Plum CupPies

    I don’t exactly know what’s come over me the last month. But, I’ve had a huge case of blogger ennui. It’s not that I haven’t been cooking or shooting or…

  • Three Green Spanakopita

    Three Green Spanakopita

    Earlier this summer, I received one of the most wonderful treats in the mail: Copies of two cookbooks, Falling Cloudberries and Secrets of the Red Lantern. These are both beautiful…

  • In The Kitchen

    In The Kitchen

    I’m becoming a big fan of shiso since Amy planted it in my garden this summer. It’s minty, grassy flavor is just the thing on a hot spell like the…

  • Fennel Blossom Soup

    Fennel Blossom Soup

    I am kind of a soup person. I always want to know what the soup special is when I dine out. When I eat by myself, there’s a good chance…

  • Fresh Chickpeas

    Fresh Chickpeas

    I walked right past the big basket of scraggly shrubby-looking things at Alvarez Farms stand in the Queen Anne Farmer’s Market last week. I must have walked by it three…

  • Best Potluck Food Ever

    Best Potluck Food Ever

    I’m pretty sure that the name of these little appetizers alone is more than enough to convince those of meat-eating persuasion start to wonder, where’s mine?!? Bacon. Wrapped. Cherries.

  • Cooking with Rainiers

    Cooking with Rainiers

    At this time of year, you can usually find a big bag of Rainier cherries hiding in my kitchen. They rarely make it anywhere near a knife, a cherry pitter…

  • Donut Day!

    Donut Day!

    It’s National Donut Day so the quiche recipe will have to wait. But I don’t think anyone is going to mind trading quiche (no matter how delicious it is) for…

  • All I want to eat

    All I want to eat

    It’s hot today, and all I want to do is play around with and eat things from my garden.

  • Salsa Season

    Salsa Season

    There is just nothing like late spring in Seattle. Yes, there are beautiful days everywhere, but on a beautiful, warm May or early June day in Seattle, you’d think they…

  • Hungry Monkey

    Hungry Monkey

    One of the (many) benefits of living in Seattle is getting to hang with some amazing food writers. Seattle seems to have them in abundance. One of my favorites, without…

  • Time for May-garitas

    Time for May-garitas

    I know celebrating Cinco de Mayo has become a much bigger thing here in the US, but hey, any chance to have a party is good enough for me and…