This time of year is all about eating what’s fresh and grown in our garden (or in my neighbor’s garden – with permission of course) before it goes bad. Harvest season really does happen in the city – even in small backyards like ours. We had some successes in the growing department and other-not-successes at… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan with Garden Failures
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Apples, Walnuts, and Cinnamon
This is a recipe my husband has been making for us since we moved into our house, 17 years ago. Our next door neighbors have an apple tree in their front yard and they don’t eat any of the apples from the tree but they’re thrilled that we do. While applesauce is also good to… Continue reading Apples, Walnuts, and Cinnamon
Weekly Meal Plan and Feast Portland
I had the pleasure of attending the very festive and fun food event in Portland last weekend, Feast Portland: Celebration of Oregon Bounty. It was an absolute food lovers delight and was sponsored by Bon Appetit. The session I attended was outdoors and was all about sampling delicious food and wine from artisans and companies… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan and Feast Portland
Weekly Meal Plan
Whenever we have dinner at our friend's house, Chris and Laura, I know it’s going to be good. Last year, they had us over for dinner and served the most wonderful beef brisket and chocolate cake. There were other dishes served but these were the most memorable. My husband loves to eat meat and would… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Weekly Meal Plan
My sweet sister, Mary, and her new husband, Weston, visited us this past weekend. My brother-in-law had a seminar in town so they both traveled from Anchorage, where they live and stayed with us. On Sunday night, instead of my son cooking his weekly meal, the newly-weds took our family out to dinner at the… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
My Great-Grandmother’s Recipes
I inherited something recently that is very precious: this little notebook. It’s filled with recipes from the kitchen of my maternal great-grandmother, Clara E. Walters. Here’s a picture of her, at age 20, back in 1906. She was an original – for many reasons. I love how she wrote down recipes on the backs of… Continue reading My Great-Grandmother’s Recipes
Weekly Meal Plan
This week's meal plan was somewhat mixed up and switched around. I heard lots of ideas from my kids about changing meals and swapping lunches for dinners. I think they were suffering from end of summer, going back to school soon trauma. We were supposed to have leftover shrimp scampi for dinner on Monday but… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Indian Spiced Lentils with Pork
My poor family. They’ve eaten lentils so many times for dinner the the past few months. Earlier this summer, I entered a recipe contest for the National Lentil Festival with this recipe but didn’t win. Even though I didn’t even get honorable mention with this recipe, it’s still really tasty and oh, so good for… Continue reading Indian Spiced Lentils with Pork
Weekly Meal Plan
Do you ever plant a vegetable in your garden and then wonder if it will grow or not? For me, planting artichokes in the garden felt like a real gamble. Really? Artichokes? Actually, we didn't even plant them in our garden. They are very nice looking plants and we put them in our front yard… Continue reading Weekly Meal Plan
Easiest Applesauce Ever
The thought of making applesauce used to turn me off completely. All that peeling, slicing, and coring of apples made me a regular purchaser of “store-bought- applesauce” as we called it. Then one day, no doubt after buying a jar of very expensive organic applesauce for snacks, I thought to myself: “What if I don’t… Continue reading Easiest Applesauce Ever
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