One of the things that makes me laugh these days is when I hear from a friend of mine who says something along the lines of: “I know we haven’t talked in a while, but I read your blog so I know what’s going on in your life.” Ha, ha,… Read More
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August 2007
Farm Tots
We’re going to the farm, farm, farmMaybe we’ll see a barn, barn, barnThere will be goats there too, I’m going to the farm with you! This is the song Alice and I sing as we head eastward, over the floating bridge and across Lake Washington. Alice and I make up… Read More
Cooking for One, a Pleasure or a Trial?
I learned how to cook in quantity, large quantity. I was cooking for a family, you see, and our pots were large. I had a younger brother who was always happy to polish off any amount of food. When he was a baby we called him Paul Bunyan, because of… Read More
Blueberry Buckwheat Pancakes on the Burke-Gilman Trail
Some of you may know that I am a bit iffy on pancakes. The ones I like are light, either thin with raspberries bits, or soft and moist with ricotta cheese. Big, hefty, bready pancakes I do not like. They sit in my stomach for hours feeling leaden: they weigh… Read More
Raspberry U-Pick at South 47 Farm
I went to my first u-pick this summer, something my foodie friends had a hard time believing. “You’ve never been to a u-pick?” Sean asked. He perhaps doesn’t realize that I grew up in the country. U-picks are really more interesting to city folks. “We had our own u-pick,” I… Read More
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