Eating the Scenery

A Schreiber and Sons Winter CSA box from last year. The slow slide to winter is, fittingly, quite apparent at the farmers' markets....

Routinely, the Schreiber and Sons booth at the farmers' market is stuffed with greens of all sorts, including herbs like basil, cilan...

About 20 years ago, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's disease.  Hashimoto's is an autoimmune condition in which the body makes anti...

As might be expected from this dish's name, it is not made with local produce. It is made with plantains! Always looking for somet...

Turn your sausage into patties or meatballs or any form you wish!  It's versatile. We are blessed with an abundance of grassfed meat...

Berries from Aichele Farms, a local grower that provides berries to Finnegan Frost. Once you stop eating packaged food, and highly proce...

Schreiber & Sons booth at Richland Farmers' Market, June 2012 The friendly folks at Schreiber and Sons Farm work hard to mak...

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...