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Makizushi launch party
A big, warm welcome! We’re grateful you’re here to read our thoughts about good food. We love tasty, fair, local foods and imagine you do, too. Each and every summer I’m taken by surprise. I still...
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Red, red radish
Posted by Jenni This is the bunch of radishes that came in our first CSA box this season. My kids wolfed down the mild white ones before they reached the fridge (see the stem stumps?) and some of the...
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Radish Redux
Today, Chie shares two beautiful (and healthy) radish recipes. Radish salad After teaching a friend how to make this simple, satisfying salad, she said I’d cured her of her hate of radishes. 1 bunch...
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Cherry basil vinaigrette
Posted by Chie My family and I are eating fruit more than we do during any other season. The cherries from Eastern Washington; blueberries, blackcap raspberries, thimbleberries, red raspberries,...
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Herbed peach salsa
Posted by Chie In Japan, a part of summer was people exchanging oseibo, gifts to celebrate the season and show thanks to the people in your community. We would receive individually wrapped, plump,...
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Miso kabocha soup
In my yard the other day I was reminded, as I looked at lichen and wet leaves through the lens, how much I like grays and browns and bright yellows. But walking into my front yard forces an admission:...
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Bok choy and radish slaw with shallot ginger dressing
It’s summer and the hours are dripping by. On the one hand, I love this. Late mornings. Kids in jammies. Spontaneous park dates. Gardening after nine in the evening. On the other hand, my own projects...
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Garlic and tomato soup
When I realized I left my drawstring bag filled with garlic somewhere at the market on Saturday, my puffy little dream of making homemade pitas with roasted garlic deflated. When our daughter woke up...
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Roasted radish salad
Four handmade invitations for an end-of-the-school-year sleepover are on my desk. Each has a Sharpied drawing of a girl in a sleeping bag with a phrase near her mouth, like “ZZZZ” and “YAWWWWN.” The...
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