Winter hit us with full force in the new year. Not the blizzard, blankets-of-snow kind of winter, but in a very Pacific Northwest way. Drizzle, fog and grey skies. There is ths ghostly beauty to them. Very moody - inducing lots of soup-making and coffee drinking. Hygge, as they say in Denmark. I wanted to also let you ...
Thanksgiving week. I am sure that those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving are all set with your recipes, pantries full, and ovens ready. And dessert? Are you steering away from pumpkin pie into new territory? We will be hanging low with friends and family. The thought of staying in Seattle sounds perfect to me - the sun, ...
When we made the decision to leave Florida, all I craved were seasons. I knew from that moment on I could only live in a place where leaves turn ochre and the rain turns everything blue. I suppose in some ways I just searched for my childhood environment - a place I felt comfortable. Seattle is ...
I have been on a true wild mushroom kick as of late. Late summer will do that to anyone I suppose. Seattle reminds me to the Basque Country in many ways and the variety of mushrooms is one - the late summer heat and rain are necessary. I remember walking the forests with my dad as ...
Per usual, I went to the Ballard farmer's market last Sunday and I got a bit carried away. My shopping basket was full of green, orange and pink. Pea shoots, asparagus, radishes, rhubarb, beets, different lettuces, sprouting purple broccolini, pink apples, carrots, kale... ... a rainbow. I came home excited for all the recipes I was going ...