Food and Hearth

We were having all the family over for Thanksgiving dinner. I was doing prep work and feeling kvetchy. Nothing was going right: dishes and ...

The more I try to simplify life, the more interested I become in simple foods. Foods with only a few ingredients. Meals that taste like wha...

There's a new beer and sausage place in Oakland, Brotzeit Lokal. It's right on the San Francisco Bay, and serves up cold German...

We've doubled our coffee consumption since moving north. It's dark and chilly in the afternoons. When the toddler takes his nap, we...

A few months back, I had some fresh berries and no plans. I didn't want to make jam. We had already eaten handfulls fresh. There was no...

I visited an estate sale recently where I picked up several awesome old books: a few on canning and preserving from the 1950's, a few o...

We are enjoying the perfect fall season here in Northwest Washington. Today, I needed to meditate on the garden. It is an important ga...