Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving!

Spinach and Feta Egg White Rounds

Sunday, November 18th, 2012

These are a quick and easy breakfast on the go. I make a batch, freeze them, and take one with me to work each morning. You can change it up with just about any type of veggie and/or cheese. Just keep the ratios about the same. Spinach and ...

Growing Washington CSA – Week 19

Thursday, October 25th, 2012

Week 19! Dried Heirloom Beans Pluot-Dapple Dandy Pluot-Dapple Dandy Apples-Honeycrisp Winter Squash-Pie Pumpkins Tomatoes-Heirloom Tomatoes-Heirloom Potatoes-German Butterball Beets-Red Ace

Feasting on Seafood

Saturday, October 20th, 2012

My folks are in town for just a couple days, so I had to treat them to some steamed Dungeness crab! :-) They brought some awesome Goose Point oysters from the coast. I ate a couple raw and baked the rest, seasoned lightly with salt and pepper ...

Growing Washington CSA – Week 18

Thursday, October 18th, 2012

Week 18! Tomatoes-Mixed Rainbow Cherries Tomatoes-Mixed Rainbow Cherries Dried Heirloom Beans Pluot-Dapple Dandy Plums-Angelina Apples-Honeycrisp Mushrooms-Shiitake Shortage - will be in next week's box Tomatoes-Heirloom Beets-Red Ace

Apple Pie

Sunday, October 14th, 2012

A delicious apple pie to use up some of the apples from the CSA. :-) I just used my go-to recipe from Joy of Cooking, blogged here.

Homemade Chicken Noodles

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

In celebration of Shaun passing the bar (hurrah! ), we made homemade chicken noodles today. This is something we don't make very often, as it's a huge batch, and not particularly healthy, but it is oh so good, and worthy of celebrating Shaun's accomplishment. We're ...

Growing Washington CSA – Week 17

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

Week 17! Tomatoes-Green Pluot-Dapple Dandy Plums-Angelina Peaches Apples-Honeycrisp Winter Squash-Bush Delicata Tomatoes-Sungold Substitute: Tomatoes - Cherry Tomatoes-Sungold Substitute: Tomatoes - Cherry Squash-Romanesco

Bierocks

Monday, October 8th, 2012

We went to a sadly disappointing Oktoberfest down in Puyallup this past weekend. The food was mediocre and overpriced, which wouldn't have been quite as bad if they didn't charge admission to the whole thing. There were a couple vendors, and a bean bag toss game set up, ...

Teriyaki Glazed Chicken Thighs

Thursday, October 4th, 2012

Last night, I baked up some chicken thighs in a bit of soy sauce then brushed them with my teriyaki sauce for the last 10 minutes or so of cooking to get a nice glaze. I served these with some steamed broccoli, steamed jasmine rice, and stir fried savoy ...