On my way up to Bellingham with the kids last weekend, we stopped at one of the roadside produce stands.  Is there anything better than Skagit Valley produce in October?  We got apples, pears, apple cider, kale, an incredible baguette from The Breadfarm, carrots, and Wyatt stood in the truck-bed and picked out 10 ears [...]

Last night, we had finally gotten the miserably hot kids to bed and I was sitting with my feet in the kiddie pool drooling over my just-arrived issue of Saveur.  Our neighbors (different than the ones I wrote about here), an multi-generational Chinese family with two boys (7 and 11) were having a party in their [...]

It’s HOT by Seattle standards.  On days like today, I find myself eating just when I’m hungry, and then not very much.  If it’s overcast, all I can think about is the next meal.  Anybody know about the psychology of that?
We’re headed to a family reunion over the weekend, and I expect most of you [...]

A couple years ago while we were on vacation together, Yancey’s sister Kelly made taco salad with fried potatoes and I’ve been making it ever since.  It was right on the heels of my pregnancy with Loretta, during which I craved taco salad night and day. It tasted so good, eating together in floating cabins [...]

I was talking to Bethany yesterday, and she was a little flummoxed about lettuce bounty–in her CSA box, in her garden. That’s the thing with lettuce–there’s really nothing to do but eat it fresh.  Something more sturdy, like kale, collards, or chard, can be cooked down and shrunk.  But darn if those heads of lettuce [...]