So Long Summer: A Photo Finish & Fine Farewell
Summer has slipped through my fingers again. Warm days have given way to morning chill, dew lingers well past first light and every branch is...
Foraging for Mushrooms: Bring a Blindfold
I love Chanterelle mushrooms, the golden little fungi that appear this time of year on forest floors and grocery shelves around the Pacific Northwest. In the stores they cost about $12.99...
Three Bean Salad Recipe: Healthy, Simple, Fresh
Three Bean Salad Recipe Goes Fresh!
Three bean salad is a side dish screaming for a makeover. This canned bean deli staple has the potential to sing not...
Kitchen Wisdom and Pantry Proverbs
Am I a multi-tasker? Not so much. My early attempt to prove I could chew gum and jump rope at the same time ended...
Santa Claus Melon Is Coming to Town
By summer's end, I've eaten a truckload's worth of melons. When in season, cantaloupes, watermelons, Charentais, Crenshaw and Casabas are dreamy big geodes of...
Hollyhocks Signal Summer’s Last Hurrah
As summer wanes, my hollyhocks mark its passage, each blossom a page in the season's story. June finds an optimistic sprout fighting off the early advances...
Vern’s Brown Turkey Fig: Nice Fig Vern
The bluebird of happiness has landed on this fig. I'm not sure who Vern is, but after taking a couple of bites out of...
Chutney Love: Recipe for Preserving Summer
Whether praising peaches, exalting raspberries or ogling apricots, I'd have to say I gush over seasonal fruit. What I don't grow well (and that's a big category...
Figs in a Blanket: Tucking In Some Amazing Flavor
Fig in a blanket: sweet, savory, earthy, and easy to make
As a blogging goes, I try not to repeat myself. (If only I could apply...
Freezing Berries and Rocket Science
With buckets of blackberries dotting my counter, I was telling a friend that I should blog about How to Freeze Berries. Arched eyebrow notwithstanding, and a...
