On New Year’s Day, I celebrated an age-old but new to me custom of eating black eyed peas with rice to ensure good luck throughout the new year. Our hostess Debbie Gerber, the personification of “you can take the girl … Continue reading →
Just how good are our local fresh sausages? Those days when dinnertime appears out of nowhere or I can’t drum up enthusiasm for cooking it, I head for the garden to pick kale, pull a package of Italian sausage out … Continue reading →
My latest aromatic favorite, seldom cultivated in Seattle, is Umbellularia Californica (an evergreen native of southwest Oregon and Northern California). It is also known as Oregon Myrtle, California Laurel, or California Bay Laurel, California Bay, Headache Tree, Pepperwood, Spicebush, Cinnamon Bush, and … Continue reading →
The next time you bite into a sandwich imagine yourself magically transported to London in 1762, where you and your friend John Montague, the Earl of Sandwich, have gambled for hours at the gentlemen only Beef Steak Club. Frustrated and … Continue reading →
