Category Archives: Food

Jeanne’s Birthday

By lee | May 12, 2010

In our knitting group, we always celebrate birthdays. We try to find the snarkiest cards possible for the birthday gal, and we make lots of delicious food. We celebrated Jeanne’s birthday this week and it was loads of fun. Look at all this wonderful food. Janet made the enchiladas and I must say they were [...]

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Olive Oil Cake

By lee | May 7, 2010

Rick and I have been pondering Olive Oil Cake ever since we went to a special Harvest dinner last year at Lucca. The theme of the Harvest dinner was tomatoes and every dish had tomatoes in it. Dessert was olive oil cake with a tomatoe compote. It was delicious. We’ve been looking for recipes and [...]

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New Years Brunch

By lee | January 2, 2010

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 [...]

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Lovely Macaroons

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 [...]

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More Food

By lee | August 4, 2009

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 [...]

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