by Wanda | Aug 1, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
WAILUKU, Maui — I never want to eat again. Well, until the Kula strawberries are properly chilled for dessert. I’ve spent two days on Maui. Eating. Seeing family. Eating. Seeing friends. Eating. Besides Saturday morning at the Swap Meet: Bistro Casanova. Friday, lunch...
by Wanda | Jul 29, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Fresh from commuting 35-plus miles a day in Seattle, teaching two nights a week in Tacoma (another hour or so on the road), reporting stories that took me all over Western Washington, I would protest, “But it’s only 8 miles.” Twenty one years later,...
by Wanda | Jul 27, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
Daunted by the eye-popping price of artisanal whole grain breads, and missing the regular bread-baking I used to do when I lived in Seattle, I decide to try the “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day” method, a one-container method in which dough is mixed in...
by Wanda | Jul 26, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
A reader asked if I could get the recipe for the Bird Bars sold at Down to Earth and I promised I’d try. But I gotta be honest: I can’t take any of the credit for the recipe that follows. Here’s what happened: I went to Down to Earth, bought a couple...
by Wanda | Jul 23, 2011 | Recipes, Recipes extras
A journalism friend used to describe the daily pressure to fill the newspaper as “feeding the beast.” Some days, as today, this blog feels a bit like an insatiable animal (very like my cat, Precious). So I fall back on random musings. Musing 1: Have you...