Monthly Archives: May 2013
Paper Tiger Coffee Roasters
This week, I had the honor of meeting Kenny and Sue Fletcher, owners of Paper Tiger Coffee Roasters, and let me tell you what a treat that was! I sat and talked with them and was introduced to some truly outstanding coffee. Normally, I am a cream and touch of sugar in my coffee […]
Margarita + Guacamole time
As the weather gets warmer, and the days get longer, there is nothing that quite says summer to me more than barbeques, chips with guacamole and margaritas. So even though the weather was altogether pretty miserable this weekend. We took advantage of as much sun that we could on Saturday and got ourselves ready for […]
Something Old . . .
The recent cool weather gave me the perfect excuse to make one of our favorite comfort foods: lentil soup. I’ve made it so many times over the years that it has long been without a given recipe. During our years on the Oregon coast most of the veggies came directly out of our year-round garden. […]
Pac NW bests: Salmon!
Saturday, fishing for spring salmon reopened, and I caught a nice 21 lb. hen Chinook. I went with one of my fishing buddies, Custus, to our secret spot on the Columbia and used our secret lures. We hooked four but were able to bring just the one to the net, so the two of us […]
Cooking life begins…..
OK, full disclosure. My mother was a terrible cook. She married young, lived with her mother during WWII, and was busy giving birth to two children. So after the war, when our young family moved out west, she apparently took few cookbooks with her. At the same time, the aluminum industry was searching, searching for […]
What was on my table this weekend?
What was on my table this weekend? A knife, a fork and chopsticks. Why would I need chopsticks when I had a knife and fork? A couple of years ago someone asked me if it was hard for me to learn how to use chopsticks. I had to think a moment and my reply was […]
What If I Cooked Everything I Have Pinned On Pinterest?
About 6 months ago I, like millions of others, discovered Pinterest. I quickly became not only a fan, but an addict of the beautiful photos of food, the attached recipes and visions of magnificent meals I was going to serve my family and friends. Fast forward 6 months to find I’ve collected over a thousand wonderful […]
You still have time to make comfort food!
Last year, our younger daughter and her husband moved back to this area. My son-in-law, leaving Seattle, where he grew up, thought it would be a great idea to institute a family Sunday dinner tradition, at least a couple of days per month. “We’ll trade off,” he said. In practice, Mom and Dad are doing […]
Dogg and Katt in the House
You will get to know us as “Dogg and Katt,” sobriquets earned from family and friends over many years. For right now, suffice it to say that we married young, raised a family of four kids in remote southern Oregon for nearly two decades, then packed up everything and relocated to the even more remote […]
A Whole New World
I have often contemplated starting a food blog, but never quite knew how. Some people make their sites look so incredible and enticing, and I would get overwhelmed before I’d get started. Yet, here I am, with the amazing opportunity to talk about something that, quite honestly, has become WAY more than the mere nourishment […]