You may have noticed I missed posting last week. Between running around getting everything ready for Sausage Fest, starting a new co-op pre-school, which had some 3-hour thing I needed to do almost every day, and attending a 4-hour writing workshop (yay!), I never caught my breath. Then the weekend hit. Besides preparing “bites” for […]

The other day I whipped together dinner using a little of this and a little of that in the refrigerator. I was happy to use up odd bits that were still good, but on their way out. My four-year old took one bite and spit it out. “Blech!” I took a taste and though it […]

For years I’ve wanted a mobile smoker for our catering. We have big grill, but our smokers are hard wired into the restaurant. Mobile smokers can be pricey, but in the Northwest they are also pretty rare. This isn’t Texas. There isn’t someone on every corner selling last year’s model. It’s actually quite tough to […]

Ah September, are you really here? I remember waaaayyyy back in April thinking about the massive amount of catering we’d have to do before it was fall again. It seemed like an insurmountable task at the time, so I only looked one week ahead at a time. Then we got so busy I only could […]

The very first night, within an hour of unloading my new Big Green Egg, I fired it up. Eric had bought some wonderful looking Rainbow Trout, and we decided to smoke-roast it on the Egg as a christening. I’m also on a latent farro kick. Latent because back when every food blogger was bowing to […]