We’re heading off to a four-day weekend to the Sasquatch music festival, just me and my husband! While we’re there, I’m making food for one of the performers. He likes ...
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Evolving our Personal Food Identities
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Cooking with Alternative Grains
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Making cinnamon rolls with kids
I made cinnamon rolls with my kids cooking class at the Y. They enjoyed the gooey fresh-from-the-oven cinnamon rolls, while they watched the other kids run. Go kids! Go! Overnight Cinnamon Rolls Recipe courtesy Alton Brown Ingredients Dough: 4 large egg yolks, room temperature 1 large whole egg, room temperature 2 ounces sugar, approximately [...]
Kirkman House Farm-to-Table Historic Dinner: May 6th, 2012
I will be putting on my second Historic Dinner at the beautiful Kirkman House Museum on May6th. The last event was delicious, elegant and lots of fun. If you are in town, consider joining us! It is a benefit dinner, with a portion of the proceeds going directly back to the Museum. Menu: cream of [...]
Spring Detox: Day Six
Today I made a lovely citrus juice from blood oranges, grapefruit and navel oranges. It had a beautiful rosy hue and I tried to make it last throughout the day, though it was so delicious I wanted to drink it all at once. Maybe I’ll buy more fruit next time, so I can make enough [...]
Spring Detox: Day Five
I’ve gotten a little lazier these days, forgetting to take pictures and lacking the energy to post at the end of the day. So here’s my day five, a few days late. This morning, I had the lovely oat pancakes again. I find them more satisfying than any other breakfast food option. To switch it [...]
Spring Detox: Day Four
For breakfast, I made up some oatmeal with spelt and rolled oats. I added coconut oil, raisins and a dash of maple syrup. It was tasty! My husband had a bowl of granola with almond milk. The kids decided they’ve had enough of the detox, and are back to toast, butter and fruit for breakfast. [...]
Spring Detox: Day Three
I’m getting into the groove of this diet, but I am pretty exhausted from all the planning, prepping and preparing. I wake up early to get the kid’s breakfast and lunches made, while my husband enjoys another hour of sleep. I get them off to school and prepare our breakfast and lunches. Then off to [...]
Spring Detox: Day Two
The morning started out good with some yummy ground steel-cut oat pancakes, blueberries and raspberry smoothie for the kids. And some spelt-oat meal, blueberries and a tangerine for the adults. The oatmeal was a bit of a challenge, as I love mine with lots of butter, cream and maple syrup. I compromised with coconut oil [...]
Cleansing Spring Detox: Day One
I started the night before, soaking some grains and almonds for the upcoming day. Brown rice for dinner, steel cut oats for flourless breakfast pancakes and almonds for almond milk(see previous post for recipe). Breakfast included honey almond granola with almond milk and raspberry pineapple smoothie. My daughter also had a cup of frozen organic [...]
Tomorrow Begins Our Spring Detox
Inspired by the thought of spring’s arrival, with it’s fresh and renewing qualitities, I have decided to go on a detox diet this first full week of March. A month back I wrote an article about the process, dreaming of the warm days of spring and bright vibrant foods of the season. Here in [...]
Spring Cleaning Detox
(This is my first Walla Walla Lifestyles magazine article, printed in the March 2012 issue) Spring is almost here! Almost instinctively during this time of year, we clean out closets and open windows to bring fresh air into our homes and lives. For some folks, thoughts turn to cleaning out their physical body as well, [...]
