Today we had the annual New Year’s brunch with our SWIRL (Society for Wine Inbibing Radical Liberals) group. Ruth hosted the brunch and set a lovely table. Southern was the theme for the food this year, somehow due to the fact that I said I would bring my cheese grits casserole. (Thanks, mom!) Everyone else [...]
By lee | November 25, 2009
Susan came over to visit today and brought me a lovely box of macaroons. Ken’s Artisan Bakery on NW 21st makes the best macaroons EVER! The flavors change with the seasons and these are pumpkin ones.
They are beautiful to look at as well as amazingly delicious. I managed to restrain myself and only eat one [...]
Okay, I realize that this is not a food blog but it’s summer and great fresh food is everywhere and it’s just so inspiring that I’m going crazy. We picked our first cucumbers and our first tomato from our garden the other day. The little yellow thing is a lemon cucumber and it tastes a [...]
I love greens. Kale, collards, chard, mustard greens, I love them all. There are many ways to cook greens but putting them into a galette is my new favorite. A galette is a rustic, unstructured pie. It is easy to whip up and you can put almost anything inside them. The Oregonian had a great [...]
Every spring, for seven years now, Cover to Cover has partnered with the First United Methodist Church to have a fundraiser luncheon. I’ve blogged about this last year. This year we hung the quilts from “Three Cups of Tea” and “Harry Potter.” When Elaine introduced the program, she billed it as two men who have [...]
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