Category: Food

• Recipe: Honey-Chamomile Panna Cotta

  

  Just the right amount of sweetness, beautifully set yet not too jiggly, satisfyingly rich and oh so easy-peasy – topped with fresh fruit and eaten straight from the ramekins or small bowls they’re made in.

• 3 Simple and Life-Affirming Habits That Have Changed My Life

  

  While changing long standing habits takes time and can be difficult, I know from experience how transformative the process can be. Learning how to release destructive habit patterns and adopt constructive, empowering, life-affirming habits has changed my life.

• Chicken pesto and a skirted twirl

  

  We packed a cold chicken pesto sandwich, a greek salad, and a couple of bottles of kombucha from the Tonasket Natural Foods Co-op into a lunchbox for just the right moment to pullover and pop the trunk for lunch. I’ve eaten lots of fancy foods in very nice restaurants over the years, but these humble…

• Recipe: Tropical Fruit Granola

  

  Made with gluten-free oats, nuts and seeds, coconut, dried fruit, and wellbeing-supportive, adaptogenic herbs.

• Tiny Buttermilk Pancakes in The Wild

  

  While watching the sunrise over frozen hills from my kitchen window, I ate a single perfect pancake, complete with a cartoon quality pat of melting butter and a hefty glug of maple syrup. I cleaned up while the leftover pancakes cooled, used a cookie cutter to cut them into several small circles, and dusted them…

• Fancified Instant Ramen with Poached Salmon and Half-boiled Ajitama

  

  While it might not be entirely traditional, this bowl of ramen was complex and satisfying; a damn fine interpretation using things I had on hand.

• Recipe: Sour Cream Cinnamon Swirl Coffee Cake and a Saskiko-Inspired Hand-Mending Project Update

  

  There is a cake recipe at the end of this post as your reward for continuing to indulge me in my steadfast effort to convert my modest wardrobe into a curated collection of slow craft, folk art heirlooms. I’m only half kidding when I say “curated” and “folk art heirlooms” and I’m not kidding at…

• Easy Like Sunday Morning – Classic French Croissants and a New Book

  

  I finally did it. I followed the recipe in Le Creuset Cookbook: A Collection of Recipes From Our French Table and made French Croissants from scratch.

• Recipe: Brown Butter, Toasted Almond and Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

  

  This skillet cookie is an adaptation of the Bon Appetit Giant Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie recipe and combines a few of my favorite dessert elements: luxurious brown butter, sea salt, toasted almond and chocolate, with toffee-like crunchy cookie edges, and a delectably chewy cookie center.

• Recipe: Bison and Butternut Squash Stew

  

  Served humbly over steamed rice, this bison stew was wonderful rich and satisfying. The bison meat itself was so hearty and deeply comforting; we went to bed with full bellies and woke up with an urgent hankering for leftover stew for breakfast.

• Hand-mending and an iced lemon loaf cake

  

  This morning I began a massive mending feat: stitching two large Sashiko-inspired patches on to the knees of my well-loved, worn-nearly-into-the-ground Lucy and Yak organic cotton twill Dungarees.

• A Recent Culinary Experiment: Curing Egg Yolks

  

  I recently experimented with curing egg yolks following the directions provided in the recipe for Asparagus with Cured Egg Yolk in the Le Creuset cookbook.