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Peachy Pork Quinoa Salad (aka CSA salad)

Everyday Food’s Dinner Tonight recently posted some no-recipe, quick dinner ideas. During the summer months, one of my favorite quick dinner strategies is to make a salad using the bounty of that week’s CSA delivery. The general formula is to cook a quick-cooking grain, usually quinoa or cous cous, mix with fruit (fresh or dried) [...]

One Local Summer, Rainier cherry edition

I had been on the hunt for Rainier cherries ever since Ramona reported buying them the weekend I was out of town. I hadn’t realized they were grown on this coast. I finally spotted some at the West End market last Sunday and snatched them up — only to discover another farmer had them cheaper. [...]

At Market: Rhubarb, Three Ways

This week at market: strawberries, honey mushrooms, English peas, asparagus, rhubarb (finally!), spring onions, apple cranberry cider, yogurt, smoked gouda, rosemary sausage. Plus boneless pork chops from the butcher, pasta and honey goat cheese from Cheesetique, and a loaf of challah from the bakery.
As a Mother’s Day treat to myself, I made an all-rhubarb meal [...]