Endive Salad with Walnut Vinaigrette & Wired

Have you ever thought about the flavors that make you take notice? The flavors that say, “Hey! I’m here and I’m going to linger on your tongue.” No? Your food doesn’t talk back to you? Ahem, Mine either. How about delightfully unexpected flavors then? Bitter flavors do this more often then not. Think of IPAs, […]

Roasted Vegetable Tarte Tatin & Another Thought

Every year, without fail, I mourn that the holidays are over. While taking down our Christmas ornaments, putting away the stockings and cleaning up pine needles, I go into a temporary funk that this most joyous time is over, again. Although I know it comes every year, I truly love the magic of Christmas, the […]

Red Kuri Squash Soup & Spirit

I’m not going to apologize for onslaught of soup that will most likely happen on Licorice Pizza Pie. It is cold outside and I have discovered that I actually need to have warm soup at lunch or the rest of the workday is entirely thrown off. Without soup for lunch, I am craving warmth, still […]

Roasted Delicata, Pomegranate and Hazelnut Salad & The Greatest

By now, I am so tired of all of this election information/barrage/littany of garbage that I have buried myself in vinyl and am refusing to come out. I don’t even have a TV so fortunately I’ve missed all of those ads. I have come out of my fort to vote however and to join the […]

End of Summer Tomato Salsas & Edge of the Sun

Every year, I anxiously wait for summer tomatoes and the fresh, achingly, savory, sweet flavor of them. I will eat them on toast, in grilled cheese, like an apple and in salads galore. Summer tomatoes are the king of summer foods. This is my first summer in Seattle and many locals have said that our […]