I’m hosting Super Tok this evening. In addition to the addictive peanut butter cups I made for dessert, I also made a starter of baked...

Some people have expressed shock that I’ve never had Reese’s peanut butter cups. I don’t know why but I’ve never had the urge to try...

Barbara, my friend and neighbor, invited me to tea. I woke up this morning and decided I’d bake a light cake to bring to tea, and found...

Today is Super Tok game night and my snack contribution is this organic date brownies with walnuts, espresso, and ground black pepper....

A neighbor in Madrona (a neighborhood next to mine in Seattle) owns a small farm in Yakima and supplies to vendors in Pike Place market....

Seattleites are hard to please….we complain about the rain and we complain it’s too hot. Temperatures in the 80s is a tad too hot for us...

Before I got into baking, I had no idea what crème fraîche was other than it was some sort of cream. Then I learned that it’s similar to...

I’ve made tea cakes without tea in them. This tea cake has Asam and Masala Chai tea in it. How about that? I don’t know how I came across...

Keeps the doctor away. I made pine syrup from the pine tips I picked on Lummi Island last weekend. I made a cocktail out of the syrup but...

I collected two handfuls of blackcurrant leaves at Nettles Farm on Lummi Island this past weekend. I’ve used the leaves to flavor my...

I gave myself a long weekend that started on Thursday and ended on Sunday when I signed up for the ’Wild foods of the Salish sea’ event...

A colleague of mine is planning a trip to Singapore and asked me for food recommendations. As I went through a list of my personal local...

In the spirit of the long Memorial Day weekend, I decided to have some light and refreshing treats around the house. There’s no baking...

We have another party tomorrow and my contribution is this chocolate mousse with chocolate stout and espresso powder, topped with...

We’ve had an unseasonally cold Spring but this weekend has been sunny and warm. Yesterday I walked to lunch in Madrona, explored Madrona...

I was doing yoga this Friday evening when I suddenly had hunger pangs. It was quite bad and I wasn’t able to focus on yoga. I was also...

Buttermilk has a notoriously short shelf-life and I hate wasting stuff, so after making crêpes with buttermilk, I moved on to make...

I had leftover buttermilk so I decided to make one of my favorite snacks - crêpe. I also have homemade apple butter and lemon curd, and...

Maneki, the oldest Japanese restaurant in Seattle is finally opened for dine-in again. Although Jean (the owner of Maneki) gave me...

I rarely follow baking recipes to a T because I prefer to use less sugar and I like to experiment with flavors. I‘ve always wanted to try...