Oh joy of preholiday baking joys! The King Arthur Flour mail order drool fest came in my mailbox today. My mom and I spent some time paging through it together, playing "...

As the days get longer and colder, my focus has shifted from trying to keep the house cool to what I will do if we have a natural disaster again. Last year, the snow and ...

I recently had the joy of spending a week in the Chianti region of Italy on a scholarship from Women Chefs and Restauranteurs; it was my first real vacation in close to 2...

Being the temperamental creative type (or, so that's my excuse), I have spurts of Poor Me Syndrome. It's that neurotic sense that nothing is good and you're overweight an...

Certainly, I can be petty. The people who love me most will attest to this fact. However, sometimes I'm right, and that's also a fact. Yesterday, we drove to Corvallis Or...

1 Tablespoon EACH butter & olive oil 1 cup finely minced onion 32 ounces organic or free range chicken broth 2 cups fresh pureed pumpkin or 1 can pumpkin puree (15 - ...

Hello Again. Pumpkin seeds found their way into every corner of my various garden spots this year. Having never planted them before, I thought the little sugar pumpkins w...

On Wednesday, Rod (my one and only) and I went to Beverly Beach State Park in Newport Oregon, and stayed overnight in a yurt. We've stayed at a couple of dozen places at ...

Salmon Days are on! October 3rd and 4th, Issaquah is host to a street fair and grand parade celebrating (for the past 40 years) the return of the salmon to the streams an...

Hi. Have you been to the Farmers Market lately? Last Sunday, my friend Linda and I took a drive over to the Milwaukee (Milwaukee, Oregon that is) Farmers Market to stock ...