Posted in Links, tagged eating out, Portland Oregon, trips on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kirk, Ford and I spent the weekend down in Portland, Oregon. It was a business trip – we were both a vendor and a presenter for the Pacific Crest Trail Association’s Trail Fest.
Me on the left, with a great guy, Jerry, on the right, at my booth.
Kirk and I drove down on Friday afternoon, battling [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Dinner, Links, Lunch, cooking, tagged book review, cookbook reviews, cooking, Dinner, pasta, pasta dish, pasta dishes, quick dinner, quick dinners, quick lunch, quick pasta dish, quick pasta dishes on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had a long session with my trainer today and was just bone tired when I got back from the gym. I didn’t want to think very hard about what to make for dinner so my mind was wandering to a book I had picked up recently: Pasta Every Way For Every Day. I saw [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Links, cooking, tagged baking, book review, cookbook reviews, Cookbooks, cooking, cooking for two, Dinner, Dinners for two, Lunch, lunch for two on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I often peruse Light Cooking for Two for ideas when I am making Kirk and I lunch during the day. Even then, I have used it for my stroganoff recipe for the family, I just double the recipe.
The book was first printed in 1995 and has a nice solid selection of recipes, not too trendy [...]
Posted in Links, Our Websites, Shopping Finds on March 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Catzia and I had a couple hours yesterday so we dropped into VegFest to see what was new this year. One of the booths was an all natural pop. Well, many “all natural” sodas come up lacking so I took the small sample and tried it, figuring it would be like the others.
Well, how ever [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Links, cooking, tagged book review, cookbook reviews, Cookbooks, cooking on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Naked Chef
I had not seen this cookbook until I met my husband, who was a fan of Jamie Oliver. The book came out in 2000, it is nearly a decade old now. Yet, the age of the book doesn’t show. It was well written, the food photography was ahead of its time and you [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Cookbooks, Links, cooking, tagged book review, books, cookbook reviews, cooking, Vegetarian, Vegetarian cookbooks on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In my early 20’s one of the first “modern” cookbooks I picked up was a copy of Vegetarian Times Complete Cookbook. My copy came out in 1995 and at the time I was living a vegan diet. In 1995 finding even a 1/3rd of the ingredients in the book was nearly impossible (Internet shopping? Organics [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Cookbooks, cooking, tagged book review, cookbook reviews, Cookbooks, cooking on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kirk’s Grandmother sent me a birthday present recently – a copy of Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.
This is a book I have been scanning and poking through since it arrived midweek. A book full of history, of old recipes that came together after the flood of 2005. [...]
Visit my other web site to buy a copy and/or learn more about what I do for hiking, backpacking and other outdoor cooking.
