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What I Ate for Breakfast…

In: Cooking, Food, gardening, iPhone, Portland

Blogging about what I ate for breakfast just got a lot more interesting… for me anyway. I’ve been using my new iPhone to take garden, cooking, and [nomnomnom] out to dinner pics. It was fun to import a few weeks of food pictures into Picasa! One of my favorite recent recipes was ^^^ Summer Pasta [...]

Strawberry Shortcake

In: Cooking, Food, gardening

It’s about time for another things that make me happy list, but I decided that at the moment, strawberry shortcake makes me happy… {circa 2009} {circa 2010} {*fingers crossed* future strawberry shortcake} Recipe: everyday food

Yay for orzo! Since I’ve had a seemingly endless supply of cherry tomatoes from my garden, this has been my go-to recipe for a quick (15 minutes!) lunch. I love how fresh this recipe is — and the feta makes it a good mix of tangy and sweet. It’s also really scalable (and for whatever [...]

How to Raise Chickens: Urban Coop 101

In: gardening, home

Earlier this year, while reading the Sunset magazine, I found an article on backyard gardening by Willi Galloway, West coast editor of Organic Gardening magazine. I’ve been hooked on her gardening blog — DigginFood — ever since! So I’m excited for today’s guest post, written by Willi. We love having chickens, but I definitely recommend [...]

Our biggest harvest this summer has been cherry tomatoes — and needless to say, our fresh tomato salads have been amazing! I found this recipe in Everyday Food and it’s great for a quick meal. It uses ripe and green tomatoes, and I threw in some golden ones too. You just toss it in some [...]

Tomatoes Provençal: In Season Cooking

In: Cooking, Food, gardening

Since tomatoes are starting to pile up — on the counters, in the fridge, and on the vines — from the garden, I’ve been on the lookout for tomato recipes.  I spotted a Tomatoes Provencal recipe in the latest Everyday Food magazine. This recipe is more of a side dish, but I ended up making [...]

In Season Cooking: Roasted Summer Vegetables

In: Cooking, gardening

We just harvested our first summer squash this week! This is my first time growing squash — so I was all squeals when I found it hiding out under all the squash canopy leaves. I’ve been dying to make Pasta with Roasted Summer Vegetables and Basil — my favorite squash recipe three summers running!  To [...]

In Season Cooking: Arugula Pecorino Pizza

In: Books, Cooking, gardening

Not to be obsessive over arugula – last week I wrote about making Arugula & Goat Cheese Pasta Salad – but when arugula wants to bolt there’s no stopping it! Since one of our arugula patches is on its way out, we’ve been using it like crazy. After searching for more uses for arugula, I [...]

Arugula, a mustardy green originally from the Mediterranean, is the latest harvest from our container garden!  Sometimes referred to as roquette or rocket, it makes the perfect addition to salads or pesto. I spotted an arugula pasta salad recipe in the June issue of Everyday Food magazine, and I thought it would be a great [...]

In Season Cooking: Radish Avocado Salsa

In: Cooking, gardening, Recipes

Bright, red radishes were the first official vegetable (basil was disqualified, on grounds of being an herb) to be harvested from our container garden!  As the vegetable with the shortest seed to harvest time (a quick 3 weeks from germination), I was excited to get cooking with radishes. I’ve never been a huge fan of [...]

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31 Before 31 List

1. Run a 5k
2. Eat completely local for one week
3. Go on an overnight bike trip
4. Roadtrip Hwy 101 to San Francisco
5. Visit all 31+ Breweries in PDX (7 left)
6. Try a new cocktail
7. Try wakeboarding
8. Go to Portugal
9 Take a 2+ week trip
10. Work remotely [not in Portland] for 1+ month
11. Get a piece of clothing tailored
12. Speak in front of 100+ people (at a conference etc)
13. Have a party at my house (ie. invite more than 4 people over)
14. Visit Hawaii again
15. Start a book club
16. Eat at Beast
17. Go to a Plate & Pitchfork dinner
18. Do a cleanse
19. Do another 30 day yoga challenge
20. Organize a group [bike] ride
21. Find a mentor
22. Paint a wall in my home
23. Go on a press trip
24. Sew something again
25. Do a month-long blogging project
26. Volunteer / do some pro bono work
27. Learn a song on the guitar
28. Find a karaoke song
29. ____________
30. ____________
31. ____________


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