I love food. Spending a long Saturday in the kitchen chopping, stirring, and tasting; going to the farmers' market and meeting the people who grew my food; taking the family up to Green Bluff to pick apples and raspberries; reading cookbooks and tasting the recipes in my head.
I try to think mindfully—at least part of the time, and realizing I'm not being mindful is itself a form of mindful practice—about the effects of my food choices and my other consumer behavior. Every time I pull out my debit card, I cast my vote for certain choices in public policy and my local economy. I also like food metaphors so these aren't all about real food.
My transportation choices emphasizing bicycling, transit, walking, and Amtrak over driving also reflect my environmental commitment. I write so much about those topics that they get their own tab here and an entire separate blog.
- Blackberry Apple Chutney Recipe (Nov. 24, 2024)
- Green Tomatoes. So Many Green Tomatoes. (Oct. 20, 2024)
- Keep It Growing: Poems about Gardening (Oct. 5, 2024)
- Apples, Apples, Apples! (Sept. 29, 2024)
- Zucchini Tomato Salsa (Everyone Needs Salsa, or, What to Do with a Really Giant Zucchini) (Sept. 22, 2024)
- Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes! (Sept. 21, 2024)
- Pears, Pears, Pears! (Sept. 14, 2024)
- Future Marmalade (Sept. 8, 2024)
- Classic All-Bran/Bran Buds Muffin Recipe: Best Bran Muffins Ever (July 5, 2024)
- Making Soup: A Pot Full of Poems (June 10, 2023)
- Walking in February: Of Woods and Water (Feb. 25, 2023)
- Vegan Cranberry Caramelized Red Onion Orange Chutney Recipe Experimentation (Dec. 10, 2022)
- How to End One Year and Begin Another (Dec. 23, 2019)
- Coffeeneuring 2019: The Bike Date Edition (Bike Style, Dec. 14, 2019)
- #Coffeeneuring 2014: It's In the Cup (Bike Style Nov, 22, 2014)
- #Coffeeneuring: It's on a Roll in Washington State (Washington Bikes Oct. 20, 2014)
- Coffeeneuring 2014: the Halfway Mark (Bike Style Oct. 22, 2014)
- Coffeeneuring: A Bike Challenge Everyone Can Love (Washington Bikes Oct. 1, 2014)
- Get Outdoors Expo Celebrates Washington's Great Outdoors (Washington Bikes June 15, 2014)
- Adventure Awaits! National Get Outdoors Day June 14 (Washington Bikes June 10, 2014)
- Washington's Great Outdoors: Task Force Meeting June 10 in Spokane (Washington Bikes May 28, 2014)
- Washington's Great Outdoors: Your Chance to Shape the Future (Washington Bikes April 29, 2014)
- 30 Days of Biking, Day Nine: Outdoors (Washington Bikes April 9, 2014)
- Moroccan Spiced Chickpeas and Squash (Jan. 20, 2014)
- Really Good Sour Cream Coffeecake with Serious Amounts of Crumb Topping (Nov. 28, 2013)
- Gear Grinder Blend: Delicious Support for the Bicycle Alliance of Washington (on Bicycle Alliance of Washington March 12, 2013)
- A Few Things You Can Do with Quinoa (Jan. 3, 2012)
- Making Soup--Er, Bike Networks (on Bike Style Spokane Oct. 29, 2011)
- If You Really Love Your Neighbor, You'll Eat Local Food (Jan. 14, 2011)
- Oddly Addictive Seasoned Flax Seed Crackers (Jan. 8, 2011)
- Adventures in Eating: Whether Vegan or Omnivore, There's a List for You (Jan. 4, 2011)
- Autumn Wild Rice Not-a-Recipe (Nov. 3, 2010)
- Green Is the Color of Money: Growing a Sustainable Local Business Approach (Sept. 20, 2010)
- A Cooking Compendium: 6 Recipes, 12 Cookbook Recommendations, and 4 Thoughts about Food in General (Aug. 25, 2010)
- Peach Elderberry Chutney: A Farmers' Market Experiment (Aug. 18, 2010)
- Farm to Jar: Happy Kitchen Madness (July 24, 2010)
- Cornbread and Cornbread: New England Spider Cake and Crackling Cornbread (April 30, 2010)
- Not Exactly a Recipe for Potato Soup: My Vegetarian Trickery (March 29, 2010)
- Stuff I Didn't Do Today, or, I Know what Happiness Tastes Like (Feb. 27, 2010)
- I'll Get a Rise out of You: Bread-baking Meditation (Jan. 31, 2010)
- Recipe Time: Interpretation of a Kinda Chunky Tomato/Red Bell Pepper/Black Bean Soup (Jan. 9, 2010)
- Eating Shoots and Leaves: Real Food, not Bad Grammar (Dec. 31, 2009)
- By Popular Demand: Recipe for Spicy Fries (Nov. 28, 2008)
- Thanksgiving Is an Act, Not a Menu (Nov. 27, 2008)
- Seriously Good Oatmeal Cookie Recipe (Nov. 5, 2008)