We had grand plans to cook moose steaks tonight, but we didn’t get them out of the freezer in time to make that happen. Instead we made use of a few simple ingredients and enjoyed bowls of homemade pasta with local butter, parsley and parmesan.
The eggs for the pasta came from the girls and the [...]
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. [...]
I’ve got that crappy early winter cold that’s going around right now. The one that takes up residence in your sinuses and declares that it is NEVER going to leave. And it’s making me want to eat nothing but comfort food and cookies.
As a result, Sunday night moved from the fancy dinner I had planned [...]
See that big 103 over there? [edit: you can't see the Seattle Times image anymore because they took it down, so I did too. Suffice it to say, it was 103F here on Wednesday] Yeah, it’s been a brutal return home from our week in Minnesota. We broke all kinds of records yesterday, and while [...]
I have been remiss in my postings for One Local Summer this year, it’s not that we haven’t been eating locally, more that there just aren’t enough hours in the day right now to experience life and write about it. Plus, my camera lens is slowly dying, choosing to only focus on things far away [...]