
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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…