Eating the Scenery

A very versatile salad is tabouli.  This one was made with ingredients on hand, including fresh radishes from the Pasco farmers' marke...

I've been told that I say "Egad!" too often, but ... erghmph!  This box was awesome.  The last, but definitely not the least...

Box 10:  Horseradish root, dried red peppers, Spring onions, spinach, and mixed salad greens. Box 11:  Dried dill, mixed salad greens...

My last two free-range chickens (will order more from the Northwest Food Hub !) achieved thawed-ness at a very awkward time.  So I put th...

From left:  Cherry-Almond, German Chocolate,  and Useful Plain Coconut Cream Barks "What to do with coconut butter" is one of...

Box 8:  The toothsome kale!  The spectacularly fresh salad greens!  The rainbow of chard!  The crisp, juicy Fuji apples!  Little garlic he...

No grains!  Just great flavors and crispy, savory delight! Going out to eat grain free is a mighty challenge.  So we accept rice, and ev...

The authors of Cooks Illustrated's book  The Best Recipe:  Soups and Stews  are crazy obsessed with perfection.  Pages of text d...

Just pumpkin seeds and coconut chips.  Amazing flavor and crunch! The grain-free life feels too good to go back to blood-sugar-spiking g...

Winter CSA Box 6 Winter CSA Box 7 Box 6 contained a gnarly horseradish root that I am still meditating about.  Beets, spinach, arug...

Lacinato kale chips baked to perfection. The other day at the Northwest Food Hub , a new vendor stood proudly next to his baskets of or...

Once you try these, you may begin to see the merits of eschewing grains.  Tender and satisfying, these pancakes actually are reminiscent o...

Because most baked goods are made with grains and sugars, and serve as vehicles for stuff we don't want to eat much of, like jams, syr...

Box 5 contained lovely romaine leaves, purple and green cabbages, turnips, thyme, russet potatoes, dried chickpeas, and huge red onions.  ...

Why should the big name bloggers have all the fun?  As anyone reading Eating the Scenery knows, I no longer eat legumes.  But my CSA boxe...

I've been picking up grassfed beef soup bones here and there for a while (okay, a couple of years) and finally got 'em all out of ...

Box 4 contained the crispiest, freshest salad greens (mostly romaine) I've ever seen.  There was a bunch of kale to swoon over, a big ...

I thought Tom Yum Goong was the best soup ever.  But I have a new favorite!  The braising greens from Box 2 found their way into this sou...

That's a hunk of pink banana squash there.  Egad!  Braising greens, salad greens, two dozen eggs (my add-on), Delicata and acorn squashe...

Because I'm usually the only cook around our house, I think constantly about faster ways to get things done in the kitchen and still end...