Recipes: Easy Cooking

Pan con Tomate

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It’s tomato season around these parts, no doubting it. The markets are full of them, and this was our first harvest from the garden. We’ve been picking a basketful like this every few days. Tomato salad, roasted tomatoes, tomato sauce. We wait all year for this sort of glut. But… Read More

Cookbook Club Does Picnics

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Do you remember the Cookbook Club I told you about last month? The one where we gather every other month and each cook a dish from the same designated cookbook? Yesterday two of my favorite things collided: cookbook club and picnic season. We even chose a picnic-themed book to cook… Read More

Happy Birthday, Delancey

A year ago today, my friends Molly and Brandon were very nervous. Their restaurant was opening, you see. I think that’s the sort of nerves that would cause someone to throw up first thing in the morning. I can only imagine, I’ve never opened a restaurant. But Delancey may be… Read More

Morel Mushroom Hunting, and A Life Lesson

One of the loveliest things about being in Seattle has been getting to know another community of passionate food people—those who live for and love flavor in their lives. One of the Seattle people who fits this description most perfectly is Jon Rowley I’ve mentioned Jon before—he’s the one who… Read More

Mushrooms on Toast with Mom

I don’t really know what other mother-daughter relationships are like. Some of my friends, when their mothers come to visit, they go shopping together, or get manicures, or even organize their cupboards (seriously). When my mom visits we don’t do any of these things. There was a time in that… Read More