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Practicing Pasta

I’ve been spending the summer developing the perfect fresh tomato pasta sauce. It’s taken trial and error, some great and some not-so-much, but I think we’ve arrived at something that we love.
Am I going to share the recipe? No, because there isn’t one. It’s all about combining top notch fresh pasta with best of the […]

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Sorry for the short notice, but if you’re in Snohomish County (or the area) and you’re looking for something to do on Wednesday, check out the Snohomish County Global Day. I’m going to try to make it over at some point if I can.
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Snohomish County invites area residents to attend the first annual Global Day, […]

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I love going to the farmer’s market and feeling the energy of the crowd, connecting with my favorite farmers, picking out the best produce, just generally enjoying the open air market. For the past two summers I’ve done most of my produce shopping there.
Today I realized as I drove to the market that there’s less […]

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The first couple of strawberries in the new patch have come and gone (into my mouth that is). We probably should have pinched off the blossoms this year, but I just didn’t have the heart with the rest of the garden so far behind.

It turns out that we’ve got salmon berries out back mixed in […]

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Bear with me as this is a looooong post.
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Summer has finally arrived - or at least as close to it as we’ll see until July 5. The solstice brought warm humid weather for the weekend, perfect for getting the heat loving plants to perk up. It also brought the first of the strawberries to the […]

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Melinda has up a great post about going out and meeting your local bloggers. I think she’s right, that forming community offline as well as on can only be a good thing.
She and I have discussed the idea of a local food blogger get together before and it sounds like she’s ready to get the […]

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It seems like the Dark Days Challenge just ended, but here we are at the start of the One Local Summer 2008 challenge. I’ll be posting not only here, but also at Farm to Philly as the West regional coordinator. Check on Tuesday morning for the first recap of the summer - I’ll be posting […]

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