When I recently noticed this salad recipe in the NYT and realized that I had all the ingredients in the house, I just had to make it! It was every bit as delicious as the recipe sounded. We love leeks, garbanzo beans and of course […]
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Tasty Tuesday … Chickpea & Farro Soup
Winter has finally left and the sun’s been shining just about every single day. The temperatures are warming up and whenever the cold east wind stops blowing for a few moments I feel like I am on a tropical island. Oregon has a fairly mild […]

Tasty Tuesday … Silky-Smooth Vegetable Miso Soup
Like in much of the country, last weekend was a weather mess here in Oregon. It’s been about ten days since the ice storm decended on us and unfortunately there are still thousands of homes without power. We had lost power a couple of times, […]

Tasty Tuesday … Vegetable Barley Soup
During my last trip to the grocery store I was finally able to get a bag of whole grain pearled barley to make this soup again. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s oh so good on a cold and rainy day. There are loads of veggies […]

Tasty Tuesday … Golden Autumn Vegetable Chowder
Fall has arrived here with rain, cooler temperatures and beautiful cool season vegetables. There are of course still vine-ripened tomatoes and colorful sweet peppers for sale at the farm market, but cauliflower, broccoli and various cabbages are showing up there as well. Cauliflower is one […]

Tasty Tuesday … Potage Celeste
Late last week, the weather forecast in Portland was predicting snow and freezing rain for a couple of days. This corner of Oregon gets plenty of rain all winter long, but for snow to make it to the valley floor, everything has to line up […]

Tasty Tuesday …Saffron Rice with Summer Stir-Fry
Confession! I’ve been distracted from my regular blogging schedule lately! First, we traveled to England in May. Then we came back and were playing catch-up with chores inside and outside the house. But I also had a really hard time just simply adjusting to being […]

Tasty Tuesday … Potato Coconut Soup with sizzling Shiitakes
For Christmas, my sister sent me a fabulous vegetarian cookbook! It’s a treasure filled with vegetarian and vegan comfort food from Germany! Thank you, Schwesterherz! I think of you often when I’m chopping and cooking away in my kitchen! The first recipe I made from the […]