No, I didn’t grow the basil for this pesto. In Seattle?! At this rate, my basil won’t be up until Halloween. I cannot believe the absolute lack of sunlight we’ve been experiencing. But Trader Joe’s basil will do nicely. (If you’re soaking up the sun in some other clime, I sort of don’t want to [...]

The story of this soup is not romantic. I wasn’t wandering through the farmer’s market with my hand-woven basket. I wasn’t talking with vendors about their wares or adjusting my straw hat against the spring sun.
I was cleaning the fridge. But you probably already knew that.
This silly pound of parsnips had been knocking around the [...]

My goodness.  I’m not going to use the weather as a conversation-starter anymore.  I’m going to say, “Hello.  My name is Sarah. Nice to meet you.  How do you like your eggs?”  It just might be one of the few (non-controversial) things all of us can enthusiastically chime in on.
Chocolate is today’s conversation-starter.  And I [...]

We’re getting ready for Halloween around here.  We don’t go ape about it.  I’m sure the kids wish I did, but it’s just so much WORK.  I figure if we keep the expectations low, everyone’s happier.  We carve two pumpkins and go trick-or-treating in Columbia City.  We trick-or-treat in the daylight, which I find much [...]

On our way to the pumpkin patch, we stopped at the Mt. Vernon farmers market.  Someday, my kids will get me a ”I Brake for Farmers Markets!” bumper sticker.   It was still foggy, the market was just waking up, and a string trio played  bluegrass renditions of old hymns. Really puts you in the mood for [...]