Mike and Jake are tired of duck hunting. Or rather, I think Mike is tired of corralling an energetic three year old lab so that he can duck hunt. They’ve taken up pheasant hunting as an option where Jake gets to run and run and run and Mike doesn’t have to get up at o-dark-thirty. [...]
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Michael Ruhlman recently wrote about the difference between foodie and cook. I am definitely a cook and only sometimes a foodie. Someone asked me today why it matters to us where our food comes from, who grows it, makes it, sells it, why we host the Dark Days Challenge. Around here we care about where our [...] I keep meaning to make Deb’s mac n cheese for dinner, but then failing to do so. Last night was pizza and tonight turned out to be brats and cabbage on the stove. The brats were left from our Fourth of July party and I quickly cooked them in beer and then cooked them off with [...] Tonight called for an easy filling dinner. The nights are getting colder and a lot of the harvest, at least what’s ripe, has come inside. So a bit of the neighbors’ purple onion, was combined with our spicy tomato peppers and a few sweet peppers. The potatoes were fried in leftover bacon fat with the peppers [...] Years ago Mike and I called in to work and went skiing on a pretty epic snow day. We ended up getting snowed in at Stevens Pass, unable to get back to Seattle at the end of the day. Late that evening the DOT opened the pass going East only and we made our way [...] Got you, didn’t I? So there really are Hookers in our garden, it’s just that they’re actually ears of corn, not streetwalkers. The ears are gorgeous, but unfortunately we waited too long to pick them and they’re quite starchy. Ah well, the horses and the chickens are enjoying them an ear at a time when [...] My grandfather passed away almost 10 years ago (wow it doesn’t seem that long!) and left behind a legacy that we’re all living in our own way. In cleaning out somewhere last spring my mom found an assortment of squash and melon seeds that he’d saved many years ago. She sent me a few and [...] |
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