Fresh Beet Salad Three Ways

Beets : The Crown Jewels of a Summer Garden In mid August, dirt-crusted crowns pop up out of the ground announcing that beets are ready to pick. Ranging in size from a toddler’s wooden bead to a golf ball, beets … Continue reading →

Summer Seafood Salad

Summer Seafood and Greens Salad Serves 4 We in the northwest really do have a remarkable seafood bounty available to us year round. And being the optimist that I am, I just know that any moment now the clouds will … Continue reading →

Tomato and Vodka Sauce with Pasta

Imagine a tiny Italian farm kitchen on a chilly winter night. On the wood burning stove a big cast iron pot heats water for pasta while the farmer’s wife reaches for a jar of tomatoes canned months before, goes outside … Continue reading →