If you’re having guests over, this Asian-Pear Chevre Salad is an impressive tasting dinner salad. The combination of Asian pear, chevre (goat cheese), pine nuts and a sweet and tangy maple-dijon dressing are really a great combination together. Later on in this post I’ll be talking about my sons’ new adventure, which has absolutely nothing [Read More]
I love this time of year. Here in the Pacific Northwest, we have four distinct seasons, so grilling season begins around April and lasts until winter decides to visit. I suppose we could grill during the winter, but who wants to trek through the cold and the snow just to heat up the grill? Not [Read More]
I had three very over-ripe bananas and a pear sitting on my counter this morning, with two options. They either make it to the garbage before the infestation of fruit flies begin, or they make their way into a batch of muffins. Thankfully the muffins won out, because this recipe is going on the [Read More]
Don’t you enjoy a good useful tip now and then? You know, the kind your grandmother taught your mother, who then taught you. What? That didn’t happen in your family? You may wonder if they are true tips or only wives’ tales. I’m sure I had a few of those passed along, but the [Read More]
It wasn’t easy growing up gluten-free. I was born in the 60’s and “gluten” was a foreign word. When my skin became inflamed somewhere between the age of one and two, probably due to eating too many soda crackers, my mom hunted down an allergist who placed 27 needles in my back to see which [Read More]
I mentioned in my last post about my dad being raised on a farm, and even though we lived in town while I was growing up, my dad still had the “country boy” in him. He built a small barn next to our house, where we kept one cow. I remember at the age of [Read More]
Back in the early nineties the Palouse region, where I live, was dubbed the “Lentil Capitol of the World“. At that time, 97% of all lentils were grown in this region. Since then, it has slipped from being the largest producer, (I believe it may be Montana now) but you will still hear [Read More]
My grandmother was raised on a farm and raised her kids on a farm. She was a true cook in every sense of the word. Her milk came fresh from the cows, eggs from the chickens roosting in the coop, and meat on the table from whatever was freshly butchered. She also grew the most [Read More]
When I’m creating a new recipe I’m never quite sure of the outcome, but I usually have a pretty good idea in my head of what the flavors are going to taste like. Maybe it stems from my childhood. My sister and I would make “concoctions”. This usually occurred on a Saturday morning when we [Read More]
If you are dairy-free this recipe is for you! I love panna cotta, an Italian dessert that is so easy to make. Just be sure to give yourself plenty of time to allow the panna cotta to set. Traditional panna cotta calls for cream and milk but today I decided to try using coconut milk [Read More]