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Merry Christmas Cookies
Paleo Chocolate hazelnut cookies Let’s face it, Christmas isn’t Christmas without a liberal splash of good cheer and cookies. Christmas cookies are the C is Christmas as far as I’m concerned. I have a...
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Cooking up some good luck in the new year
Asian tangerine pot roast Happy new years! Here we go as the great wheel of time turns yet again. A reader recently pointed out that this post got lost in the mail, so it seemed like a perfect time to...
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Beating the tight pants blues with grapefruit
Grapefruit and Avocado salad with grapefruit vinaigrette I have a personal question to ask you, how’s your pants fitting? Mine are tight. Yup, it’s that time of the year when we all get the opportunity...
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The winter art of slow cooking
Paleo Moroccan lamb shanks The winter has pulled its misty blanket down over the coast and the time of inward has begun. I used to dislike this season and pine for the long sunny days of summer but now...
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Steelhead trout, our NW winter bounty
Fresh grilled steelhead trout We live in such a fertile rich valley here on the NW Oregon coast that some of our wonders are easily overlooked, like the fact that we have one of the most abundant...
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The pilgrimage for Vanilla
The Hawaiian vanilla company It took a few years and some strategy to get to the first and most successful vanilla farm in the U.S. but I recently made it. Nestled in the verdant jungles of the Hamakua...
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Spring time is egg time!!
Paleo Strawberry souffle omelet By now, I think I have made my great love of eggs evident and spring time is egg time. I didn’t know this till I owned chickens. Eggs are always available year round in...
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Food waste….a dirty subject…..
Rich compost made from our food scraps I think everyone has a memory of one of their relatives glaring at them and telling them to clean their plate. My grandpa on my mom’s side was the card carrying...
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Chickens rule the roost and they don’t even know it
“The chicken has, quietly but inexorably, become essential.” Donna J. Haraway Thomas Keller’s famous simple roast chicken The egg comes before the chicken. At least that is how it is in my world....
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The turnip immersion program
Shaved spring root salad to brighten the day The turnip is one of the veggies that I could never remember what it looked like. I knew it was white and that was about it. Then the Revolution Gardens (a...
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Life is a cherry clafoutis
Primal/paleo cherry clafoutis “Life is just a bowl of cherries, don’t take it serious; it’s too mysterious” Lew Brown Cherries just make me happy. I bought a bunch of cherries at the first farmer’s...
View ArticleAltering climate change, one carrot top at a time
“When we think about threats to the environment, we tend to picture cars and smokestacks, not dinner. But the truth is, our need for food poses one of the biggest dangers to the planet.” National...
View ArticleMuffin mania and special guest star Louise Hendon
Summer is coming to a thundering close soon and I for one am ready! Yes, this has been an amazing year filled with organic produce like we have never seen, and yes this has been the driest warmest...
View ArticleEnjoy the fruits of the summer….in sangria
All this talk of climate change and drought has made me thirsty! I’m off my soapbox and mixing up a drink to quench my thirst. (Can you say short attention span?) I am going to take a left turn here...
View ArticleThe ancient mighty salmon!
I’ve been off on a camping trip, Dana style, in a 30 foot RV, meandering down the Oregon coast taking in the amazing sights. Everywhere we went to saw salmon boats and salmon was on the menu in every...
View ArticleApples; the secretly disguised superheros
A recently scored a huge box of beautiful organic apples picked from a local tree. When I opened the box and breathed in the aroma of fall, I was struck with how this common fruit is really a superhero...
View ArticleHaunted Lighthouse’s and pumpkin bread
We recently took a two week camping trip down the Oregon coast at a slow and ambling pace to discover lighthouses. I had no idea that lighthouses are so cool! When you visit them, the history is...
View ArticleCuban Mojo pork roast to liven up things
As most of you know this year was a historic year as the USA opened up new relationships and an embassy with Cuba for the first time in 56 years. That means that American citizens can get reacquainted...
View ArticleBeing Thankful for leftovers
Here I am posting a Thanksgiving post in December. How is this all possible? How do the days keep whipping past? Of course I spent half of November in Maui so that creates an odd sort of a time warp...
View ArticleOyster stew; an old tradition made paleo
“Oysters are one of the supreme delights that nature has bestowed on man.” James Beard Oysters are one of the great celebration foods that over the centuries, rich and poor alike have enjoyed. The...
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