The veggies are coming in hot and heavy. My CSA (community supported agriculture) box arrives each Saturday, full of promise and I must perform. Yes, I must do all these amazing vegetables that are grown locally, organically and tended with loving care, justice. We are in the middle of the most abundant part of our…
Red, white and blueberry ice cream
The fourth of July is the kickoff of ice cream season to me. Our summer finally arrives and the fireworks begin, literally and figuratively. I think that ice cream is a very fitting way to celebrate being American as it has become an all-American dessert. People in the US consume more ice cream than any…
Quiche Power! For a better tomorrow!
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” David Mamet For the 5th year in a row, pie-crazed characters gather together in our community to celebrate National Pie Day with a rousing auction and wrap-your-face-around-a-pie feast to Benefit “Lower Nehalem Land Trust” (LNCT)and “Food Roots” of Tillamook. It is…
Blackberries, raw and wild
It is blackberry season again here in the Northwest. The tenacious blackberry. We curse them 10 months of the year but for a few glorious months they are exalted. Out we trudge, like gladiators to the berry patch, covered in an armor of thick clothes and leather gloves, armed with clippers to battle the bramble…
