I have to share this ... it makes me laugh every time I watch it. This is the shop owned by my dear friend, Sonya Acord. If you live in or drive past Lakewood, Washington, you really have to check out Yorkshire Yarns. Sonya's kids made this video (and feature in it). Skyler, Tyler and Heather Acord ... you guys have crazy talent. I'm thinking the next time you're bored, you should make a video for Twig and Feather. Just a thought. :D Before you see the video, take a look at Heather (l) and ... continue reading...
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Three-Citrus Salmon
Okay, if you go in the next five minutes, you might be able to snag the last of the Copper River salmon that is in stores RIGHT NOW. If you wait six minutes ... well ... there's always next year. I'm already in mourning. Here's a confession: I'm not so great in the "cooking fish" department. EXCEPT, I make a mean salmon. I don't know why the other fish intimidate me so. I just have no idea what to do with them. Wait ... I do make good fish and chips. But there's no secret there. If you ... continue reading...
Home Again
I left my friend's apartment in Pleasant Hill, California, where all is sunshine and flip flops, and came home to Autumn: Part 2, otherwise known as "Juneuary in the Northwest." (Thanks for that, Kent :)) Rainy gray skies, wind-whipped trees, and a house begging for someone to make a fire in the wood stove (Dave and I were both gone this week). So he did. And I lit candles, and set the kettle to boiling, and dug my slippers out from the deep recesses of the closet. I'm not complaining a ... continue reading...
Bump: Breakfast Burritos x 2
I'm bumping up this post from last year (almost exactly a year ago, actually) because I'm down in the San Francisco area all week visiting my friend, Sherri, whose recipe I shared with you back then (it's the second recipe). I always love staying with Sherri. Her condo is one of the most peaceful places on earth. Plus, that girl really knows her way around a burrito. So a friend texted me a few weeks ago with a question. "Where in Marysville can I get a good breakfast burrito?" Jay ... continue reading...
On Writing and Ritual … and the Power of the Obituary
I don't use a specific pen, nor do I wear a lucky writing hat when I sit at my desk. I don't keep rotten apples in my desk drawer to sniff for inspiration, although this apparently worked for the German writer, Friedrich Schiller. And on the subject of clothing: Unlike Victor Hugo, I prefer to wear some while I'm composing -- but that's just me. The rest of you do what you like. I don't habitually write in the bathtub while eating apples, like Agatha Christie, although I did write in a ... continue reading...
Crab Cakes and Wasabi Mayonnaise
It's official. I've ruined Dave. Apparently, all those hours of listening to Food Networks' "Chopped" in the background has seeped into his being. How else would you account for what he said when I served him dinner tonight? "That was great ... and the plating, too." I don't know if I should feel elated or ashamed. Tonight's dinner was Crab Cakes and Wasabi Mayonnaise. The crab was acquired on a trip to the Oregon coast last month. Driving back through South ... South Something, you know, that ... continue reading...