I recently received an invitation to view a wonderful website from my neck of the woods. Sub Rosa is a virtual restaurant based out of Dundee Oregon, an area south east of Portland that is full of wineries and correlating tasting rooms. Michael Sherwood and Linda Lausmann run this tasty adventure that [...]
Michelle and I had the good fortune to sample slices of Salumi’s Mole Salami this past weekend at the Slow Food chocolate event. The balance of spice, chocolate and sheer meatiness was surprisingly easy to get carried away with.
I don’t exactly consider myself a salami sort of girl, but this magic concoction [...]
Oh my word! Michelle and I found oursleves in quite the cozy theobromine binge on Sunday. This was the For the Love of Chocolate benefit we attended put on by the Eugene Slow Food group. The following pictures are Michelle’s, who has already posted her report!
I arrived with scarcely any time to [...]
The state of my kitchen better not be a reflection of my inner mind. It’s most often cluttered, even littered, crammed full of odds-n-ends, bits-n-pieces, with quirky projects here and there.
Most are traditions I’ve come up with myself, though some, like the collection of wishbones on the window still are habits learned from my [...]
I have to dedicate this post to my brother Eric, who has survived several years of doing the hip thing in Seattle working as a *$’s barista. I haven’t exactly grilled him for any explicit inside storys that come from working for the Man, but I imagine there must be a couple of them. [...]
This weekend was partly spent devouring Julie Powell’s JULIE and JULIA, 365 days , 524 recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
For food bloggers and their significant others (ahem, yes Sweets, I’m forcing this one on you) I cannot recommend [...]
Last week was a week of new fruit, some of it nude! The fruit that is.
I spent thursday volunteering as art hostess at the Jacob’s Gallery. Part of my volunteer ritual is to stop at the downtown grocery store, the Kiva, to pick up edibles for my lunch, as I would have to [...]
Sung in the tune of “Bottles of Beer on the wall“: One hundred seventy six vanilla beans on the counter, one hundred seventy six vanilla beans! Split one down stuff it in sugar, one hundred and seventy five vanilla beans on the counter…
My package of eBay vanilla arrived the other day. I had forgotten [...]
Do you have a sweet cookie in your life? Ok, how about a sweet and spicy cookie with a touch of bite? Look no further but I think we’ve got your stocking stuffer (errr, um, that wasn’t a euphamism) right here!
The Cookie Sutra is a delightful little book of, sure enough, Kama Sutra [...]
This Wally LSD Bowl remains one of my favorite pieces of pottery, which is saying alot considering my household collection. My years working with clay have rewarded my kitchen cupboards, which are crammed full of personal gems from potters near and far. This Wally LSD Bowl however, outshines them all when it comes [...]
