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The Time I Went to Adult Summer Camp

June 10, 2013
Lady Camp (Washington Outdoor Women)

I’m going to deviate just a touch from the topic of eating food for a second…but there’s still food preparation involved. Lady Camp was one of the most inspiring things I’ve done in a long time. I travel across oceans all the time, but here, just 45 minutes from my house, I met people from the foreign lands that we call “across the mountains” with strange religions (I believe they’re called “republicans”). They were tall and short, old as my grandmother, and young enough that I had to use the phrase “back in my day,” more than once. The common thread?...

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App Release: Unique Eats of the Northwest

May 15, 2013
Unique Eats of the Northwest

“I’m having a girl!” the text came in yesterday from my best friend. I couldn’t be happier for her. THERE IS A TINY HUMAN INSIDE MY BEST FRIEND. What could be more exciting than that? Nothing. But this is my blog, not hers, so that’s not my story. Instead, here’s the second most interesting thing going on in my world. I’ve been gestating a little something myself for the last nine months: a tiny, electronic baby. If I were texting my friends about it, the message would say: “I’m having an app!” I’m not texting, though. Even just...

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Xinjiang-Style Lamb Skewers

August 20, 2012
Lamb Skewers Cooked Xinjiang Style

This post is for a contest being put on by the folks at the American Lamb Board. The prize is cool (cooking with a chef at an event) and I’d like to win, so please vote for me! Also, that means the lamb used here was given to me by the lamb folks. Thanks, lamb folks! Xinjiang lamb skewers are the best bar snack you’ve never had. Unless you’ve been to Beijing, in which case, they might just be the best bar snack you have had. It’s been almost three years since I came back from Beijing, but the...

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What’s in your Olive Oil?

July 31, 2012
What's in your Olive Oil? Olive Oil Tasting with the Gastrognome

Recently the California Olive Ranch invited a few bloggers, myself included, to join them for an evening of tasting olive oils, eating delicious food, and learning about ‘the future of the olive oil industry.’ I am under no obligation to write, but this stuff was fascinating, so I want to share it–and the olive oil–with you, so read to the bottom. You can win some tasty olive oil and maybe learn something.     I often refer to myself as the #FoodNerd on twitter. That the phrase ‘learn about the future of the olive oil industry’ was so ridiculously...

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Little Nibbles: What to do with your (hungry) self?

May 25, 2012
First Strawberry of the year

A beautiful red strawberry in my garden is my first sign of summer’s probable arrival (it’s Seattle, we’re never sure). So, here’s a quick round up of all things delicious, in my kitchen, in my city and around the world…           Date night for food lovers This dinner-as-theater parody of people who treat every dinner as theater hits a little close to home at times. In Cabinet of Curiosities, Chef Nordo’s latest production, they simultaneously skewer both those who worry too much about where their food came from (guilty!) and those who don’t quite care enough. Cafe Nordo...

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Little Nibbles: Spring Food and Spring Events

April 22, 2012
Lamb-and-Veg

Spring has, as they say, sprung. It sprung in 65 degree days (hey, that’s warm here), in crowds walking around Green Lake, and of course, in the form of bounty at the farmers markets. Here’s a round up of what spring looks like in my kitchen, my city, and across the interwebs. In my kitchen: I had bought these lovely lamb shoulder pieces to remake an incredible yogurt curry. I had made it the first time in late evening and by the time it was done I was hungry and the light was gone. It was Seattle, I was...

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Little Nibbles: Eating for a Good Cause, Causes of Good Eating

March 12, 2012
Little Nibbles: Eating for a Good Cause, Causes of Good Eating

I love Seattle. My pride in the our culture, our food, and our events is unending and maybe a little annoying to people who don’t share it. That’s their problem, though, and this is my blog, so I’m sharing with you Seattle’s most savory selection of news, events, and all things food-lover friendly. Gospel Brunch I was having so much fun pretending to be a photographer at Where Ya at Matt’s gospel brunch I didn’t even get to try the jambalaya croquettes pictured here. Luckily the rest of the food was delicious and I learned a lot from my...

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My Year in Food, 2011

December 26, 2011
Swimming Fire Fish

Normal is not what I do best. Thus my end-of-year top-ten list will be anything but. For starters, it’s not ten items. Instead, this is a peek inside my brain, where cooking and reading and small creatures in the night all crawl about, mingling and mixing into a delightful stew of tasty tidbits. It’s December, and while I’m more likely to look forward to the next year than backwards on the last, here’s a few things that stuck in my maw, reminding me why the life of good eating is so wonderful. Best non-cookbook: Grant Achatz’s Life, on the...

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Little Nibbles: Chef Nordo, Mushroom Hunting and Pie. Plus Pie.

November 9, 2011
Pie

A quick round up of all things delicious, in my kitchen, in my city and around the world… Cafe Nordo Returns Savor Tomorrow is the latest dinner theater production by the folks behind Chef Nordo. They’ve abandoned the current time zone and boarded a plane in 1962, heading for Seattle for the World’s Fair. In keeping with the Mad Men/Pan-Am trend in cocktails today, we were served a variety of delightful cocktails and 1962′s ‘futuristic’ food. The show is interesting and as the plot unfolds the subtle digs at the food industry get better. There’s nothing about theater that...

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Little Nibbles: Challah, Chocolate Wine, New Dim Sum

October 31, 2011
ChallahWine

Warm up a chilly fall Monday morning with the scent of bread baking, the sound of wine pouring and the taste of dim sum on your tongue. A quick round up of all things delicious, in my kitchen, in my city and around the world… First and foremost: It’s all about ME! I have a new column on the Seattle Weekly’s Voracious Blog: On Monday mornings, you’ll now find my recommendations for where to eat on Monday nights (when everything else is closed). Check out my first column, up today, on the Leary Traveler. Fresh Baked Challah The recent...

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