If you have read this blog in the past I’m sure I do not need to tell you that I love Western Washington in general, and Whidbey Island specifically. The beauty of this geographic region is ideal to me. I love the fishing, clamming, crabbing and other foraging opportunities that this area alone has. The [...]
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A little bit of Napa Valley on Whidbey Island
Posted in Farmers' Markets, Food Theory, Locavore on May 26, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Digging Freshly Dug Spuds
Posted in Farmers' Markets, Food Theory, Locavore, Recipes on September 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Willowood Farm’s Fresh Potatoes are a thing of beauty My three-year-old-daughter Molly is a big fan of potatoes in just about any from. She likes them with or without skins, boiled, fried, simply mashed with olive oil and salt or pureed and adulterated with cream and butter. Regardless of how they are prepared she refers [...]
This Week In Foraging
Posted in Apples, Farmers' Markets, Food Politics, Foraging, Locavore, Orchards, Recipes on August 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
A friend of mine told me that when he was a kid in the 1940′s he knew the location of every fruit tree within a three mile radius of his house. For him summer was all about which yard had the best plum tree, with limbs that had grown over the fence, draping into the [...]
A Chick Pea By Any Other Name
Posted in Farmers' Markets, Locavore, Recipes on August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have been a sucker for fresh shelling beans ever since I first worked with fresh Cranberry Beans in France back in 1992. I truly long for late summer when the first beans arrive. Invariably the first beans to show up at the market were picked too early, before the beans inside are fully developed. [...]
