I love leeks. They grow easily in the garden, and they’re super tasty grilled or shredded and steamed as a base for fish. The only thing with leeks is that they don’t store well once harvested, and for as easily as they grow, you can end up with a lot of leeks just [...]
The farmers market season is getting rolling in Portland, and I took a trip up to the King market in Northeast.
It was a little sparse, but they had a lot of nice veggies starts and a little bit of early produce (ala leaves, asparagus, and potatoes). They also had some lovely [...]
I went on a rampage this weekend and tried to add every plug-in to this blog that I thought would be at all interesting or useful. One that grabbed my attention was called Twitter LiveBlog. The theory is that, by sending a certain code, you can start up a session on your blog [...]
This is sort of gratuitous food porn, but it’s become a mini-tradition that when my boys stay over on Friday nights, we have a little dinner party. Recently, I’ve been involved in a sort of man-boy love relationship with Jacques Pépin, except that we’re both old. And I don’t know him. He could, [...]
One of the few things I recall growing in my yard as a kid was this patch of rhubarb back on the northeastsouthwest corner. Don’t know if it’s still there, but it seemed like a fixture over the years. I used to love breaking off the stems and dipping them in sugar to [...]
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