We are huge breakfast muffin fans around here, especially now–during fresh, local berry season. My absolute favorite muffin recipe is one of Martha Stewart’s, loaded with butter, sugar, buttermilk, and other lovely things. The muffins weigh about a pound each, and come out of the tins almost dripping with melted fat. Heavenly. But not for [...]
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Simple Spring Foraging (and a nice Nettle Frittata Recipe)
April 19th, 2010 · 6 Comments
You don’t have to be a hardcore forager to take advantage of the wild greens that abound in this lovely spring season. Trust me–we are not traipsing about far off-trail, toting a GPS. But we do enjoy gracing the table with simple wild edibles that we glean close to home. My two spring favorites: miner’s [...]
Tags: foraging, recipes, seasons, urban nature
Homemade Cheese Crackers. Yum.
March 24th, 2010 · 5 Comments
The most horrible thing happened recently. Beecher’s Handmade Cheese, our local Pike Place Market cheesemonger, started selling crackers that feature their delicious Flagship Cheddar. The cheddar is yummy, and the crackers are almost yummier. They make me swoon and drool. They make me eat way too many. They make me want to make my own [...]
Tags: recipes
Super Quick Sandwich Bread For Busy Days
January 11th, 2010 · 14 Comments
On Sundays, Claire and I like to bake her favorite sandwich bread for the coming week’s school lunches. It’s a sweet routine. We mix up the dough right away in the morning. During the first two-hour rising, we all go to the neighborhood farmer’s market. (We’re fortunate to have a year-round market here in West [...]
Preserving Pumpkin (and 2 Recipes)
October 20th, 2009 · 12 Comments
It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for [...]
Tags: bread, canning/preserving, garden, recipes
A New Way to Freeze Cherry Tomatoes: Tasty Herb-roasted Bites
October 3rd, 2009 · 10 Comments
We’ve had a great tomato year–about as good as it gets in Seattle. A hot summer, and warmth into the beginning of October (last year the green tomatoes practically withered on the vine in early August). But autumn is truly with us now, and as I pick tomatoes this Harvest Moon morning, it is with [...]
Tags: canning/preserving, garden, recipes
Heirloom Tomato Tart
August 30th, 2009 · 5 Comments
It’s the peak of tomato season in Seattle–the plants are covered with the most beautiful shades of green, orange, yellow, red, and burgundy. We are canning tomatoes, drying tomatoes, making salsa, carrying baskets of tomatoes to neighbors, concocting tomato recipes, and of course eating cherry tomatoes like they’re potato chips. Last night I made this [...]
Tags: Uncategorized, garden, recipes
Homemade Pita: Cool Bread for Hot Days
July 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
One of the things I love most about baking bread is the warmth, both symbolic and actual, that it brings to the kitchen on a chilly autumn or winter day. Fresh homemade bread is just as delicious with our summer pastas and garden salads as it is with our winter soups, but when the kitchen [...]
Local Asparagus! A Super-delicious Asparagus Galette Recipe
May 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments
Don’t you love waking up in the morning these days? Spring is springing, a heavenly cup of coffee is forthcoming, AND we are smack in the middle of local asparagus season. Life is good.
It is arguable that there is never any defensible reason to do anything with asparagus besides roasting it beneath a thin drizzle [...]
Deep PB & J: Easy Homemade Peanut Butter
April 7th, 2009 · 11 Comments
One day early on this school year, Claire came home and said, “Mommy, you bake the bread for my sandwich, and we use our homemade jam. We should mash up some peanuts with a rock or something instead of buying peanut butter, so the whole thing will be homemade!” Well, that’s a girl after my [...]
Tags: bread, peanut butter, recipes
