Steak and Potato Pie Recipe I’m still in the Celtic state of mind, and will be for sometime, as in less than a month, I will flying to the land of my adoptive ancestors birth. Ireland is from where my dad’s grandparents immigrated, and with names like O’Leary, Reilly, and Reardon, on the extended family […]
My Mom’s Grasshopper Pie
My Mom’s Grasshopper Pie My mom made Grasshopper Pie and I loved eating it. My folks were teetotalers, so bottles of liqueurs and wine, that had been given to them as gifts over the years, were still sitting on the upper shelf in the pantry of our family home when I cleared it out after […]
BLACK BEAN CHILI AND CORNBREAD
BLACK BEAN CHILI AND CORNBREAD After a little break yesterday afternoon, it’s snowing again at Pie Cottage. Media is saying that Western Washington snow is breaking records that have stood for decades. This morning my local paper posted an article about some of the “hard winters” that my neck of the woods has had. I’ve […]
Recharging
RECHARGING This weekend past, I spent a few days recharging in a cabin out on the far reaches of the Washington coast. My dear friend Nancy and I used take our children there when they were little. They jumped and played in the waves, laughing at us when we told them that it was too […]
Date Shake
Date Shake At the beginning of the health food movement in the early 1950’s, Kayser’s opened in Santa Barbara. It was one of the first health food stores, a trend that over the years became more mainstream. Jonathan Kauffman writes about this movement in his excellent book titled Hippie Food, which, by the way, was listed as […]