Writing the good read
Today in my Health123.com blog, I write about ways to put more veggies and fruits in your diet, particularly now that so many beautiful fresh specimens are available. Here’s a tease. Click below if you’d like to see more. …There are many previous blog posts right here on this very site that can show you study…
I thought this, the second part of my blogathon link-love post, would be about food AND gardening. Nope. Not going to work. I have to break it up. My gardening blog love is tied up with some hippie chick homesteading/crafting/living on the cheap blog love. So food today, the rest tomorrow. Now go get a…
This is me and my guy tonight. For my 50th birthday dinner he took me out to Bis on Main, a restaurant in old Bellevue restaurant that seemed to be filled with old Bellevue type-residents (refined, of money, conservative), but with a distinctly forward looking idea about food — my salad included pickled rhubarb that…
Sorrel is a lemony perennial leafy herb. It grows easily and is hard to kill. There are variagated varieties that are pretty, but are tough and don’t taste as nice as the French culinary variety. It’s worth growing, especially if you like this soup, because you can’t usually find it in large enough quantities…
I never grow enough peas or beans. Each year, I would plant a few vines of each, just enough to satisfy me as I picked them as they ripened. No peas or beans ever made it to the house. So I decided to plant more. I have three kinds of peas growing — shelling, mange-tout…
You could die before you get through all the good things on the internet, right? Isn’t it nice to have someone like me tell you what’s really not to be missed? The blogathon gives me the chance to find some real gems. Today’s group includes five food and garden blogs that I love, I subscribe…
People send me free stuff. Sometimes it’s food items, like Health Warrior‘s Chia Bars, which make for a tasty, but healthful snacks, or Kate Farm’s organic, soy, gluten and dairy-free protein drinks, Komplete meal replacement shakes. They’re okay, and Darling Son liked them. But they’re something I’d drink of necessity rather than choice. Of the…
I’m about to admit something that will probably take me down a notch in the eyes of the three dozen people who think I’m a bona fide foodie. Here goes: I don’t like truffles. Not the chocolate ones, I love those. I’m talking about the ones that pigs sniff out. I don’t like truffle oil,…
Before last Saturday, I had never taken a cooking class. I learned to cook from my mother, by reading a whole lot of cookbooks, and by actually cooking. It is a form of artistic expression to me, something that gives me intense pleasure. Thinking of an ingredient and how to use it in a tasty,…
My friend Sandy is really into food and animal welfare, and over the past year or so, she has moved from a vegetarian to a vegan diet. The impact on my life includes trips to amazing vegan restaurants that I didn’t know existed, like Araya‘s in Bellevue, which specializes in vegan Thai food. She picked out…