• Dinner Ideas – Week Three

    Another week of plant-based dinners: Monday – leftover Chickpea Biryani (brown rice, chickpeas, cashews, raisins, spices) Tuesday – Lentil-Barley Stew with Kale (I’ll be teaching this in my class on Feb. 29), thick slices of Tyee Mountain bread (“A hearty, lightly sweetened “mountain trail” bread made with a blend of organic local whole wheat flour, organic local spelt flour, organic…

  • Another Week of Dinners

    Here’s what we ate last week: Monday – Chef Salad of mixed greens, purple curly kale, roasted Romanesco, steamed beets, chickpeas, leftover roasted butternut squash, avocado, and pumpkin seeds, drizzled with tofu ranch dressing. Served with whole wheat sourdough bread from Farmstead Bread and sliced cantaloupe. Tuesday – Leftover Lentil Meatballs in marinara sauce with spaghetti, big green salad with…

  • Sunday to Sunday: A Week of Plant-based Dinners

    Here’s what we had for dinner this past week: Sunday – taco salad bar of InstantPot pinto beans, seasoned cauliflower & walnut taco “meat”, mixed greens, yellow bell pepper strips, black olives, guacamole, salsa, ranch-style dressing. Brown rice on the side. I cooked a huge batch of rice to last all week.) Rhubarb-Cranberry Crisp for dessert. Monday – Air-fried marinated…

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  • Cannellini Bean “Cassoulet” with Sweet Potato Biscuits

    Not my best food photography, but several of you asked for this recipe and I want to get it up quickly. I started with a photo of a recipe my daughter shared with me from the book Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. She uses navy beans, olive oil, and fresh carrots in the stew; I made do with what I…

  • Simple Sourdough Bread Class

    I’ve got a Simple Sourdough Bread Class coming up on Saturday, March 23 from 2:00 – 5:30 pm. Learn to bake crusty sourdough bread in your home oven! In this three and a half hour class we’ll be mixing and baking hearth loaves using just flour, water, salt, and a small amount of starter. Beautiful, simple bread made entirely by…

  • Perfect Pie Crusts Class

    Learn to roll out the perfect, flaky pie crust in my hands on class. I’m finally offering an evening session of my very popular Perfect Pie Crusts class. It’s Friday, March 22 from 6:00 to 8:30 pm. This will be a hands on class! Each participant will be rolling out their own all-butter crust to take home. I’ll demo several…

  • Hazelnut Heaven

    It’s hazelnut (aka filbert) season in Oregon! Now is the time to stock up. I just placed my order for 20 pounds of cracked hazelnuts from Growing Miracles Lavender Farm in Garden Valley. A friend is coming over Friday and we’re going to sort the nuts from the shells while we watch The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society on Netflix.…