I’ve been home for a few days now and it has been so darned nice. There’s just something especially wonderful about coming back to a place that’s yours. Where you know where all your things are, where you get to cook whatever you want...

A few weeks ago I promised a full recap post of Carey, Ice (short for Aysegul), and I’s First We Eat workshop in the British Virgin Islands, and today I’m here to deliver. It always takes me a while to get recap posts together,...

I’m writing this from my hotel room in London, I spent the week before last hosting an amazing workshop in Barcelona with Carey, Pat, Linda, and Maggie. We ate and shot a ton of Spanish food, visited two beautiful and very different wineries, and...

Last month I held the first of my new series of homesteading workshops here in my home in Portland, Oregon. It made for a really fun and interesting day filled with tasty soups, stocks, broths, and breads. We went over the means of making...

The weather started warming up here this past week, and for a hot second I thought spring was on its way early, but then the thermometer dipped back down again and the gorge winds started blowing hard and cold. It dried out enough for...

It feels like it’s never going to stop raining here, the sky seems to have broken in two and is releasing an unrelenting amount of water everywhere. This is particularly unfortunate because my compost order was delivered a few days ago, and nothing makes...

It’s funny how much Portland can feel like a small town sometimes. There’s over 600,000 people that live here, but you can find yourself running into people you know so easily. I was on instagram a couple months ago and got a message from...

Before I dive in to this grilled cheese, I want to thank everyone for being so nice about my last post. I’m a bit behind on replying to all of the comments, but in the meantime I wanted to say how deeply appreciated all...

I made this celebratory cake a couple months ago. It was supposed to be my first-ever ‘blogiversary’ post and, unlike the 6 years prior, I actually did  remember it this year, but it was just so crazy and hectic with all the holiday stuff...

So, about these swirly chocolatey brioche buns. I saw these on Pinterest a couple weeks ago and knew I had to make them because, well, look at them. The swirls are so crazy-looking, but you get them the same way you get the flakiness...

Last month I held a winter workshop and Secret Supper here in the pacific northwest. We found a beautiful renovated barn in Washougal on an old-growth Christmas tree farm and decorated it with our little touches. We had a wonderful group of women join...

A couple weeks ago I was lucky enough to have my friend Maggie come by for a visit. She’s a stylist and seamstress, a bit of a jack of all trades, and she makes clothing and weavings in Tennessee. She was traveling through the...