Talkin ’bout Veggies

Terry makes some delicious meat and poultry on the Traeger. Burgers, steaks, ribs, chicken…it all comes out delectable. But it is also a fabulous device for vegetables. I think I’ve said before, I have no regard for eggplant or zucchini. I understand the taste for eggplant, it’s just not for me. But zucchini? I have…

Breakfast Burrito

This fall — late September to be exact — I will have lived in this house for 25 years. It is my first and only home I’ve owned and it is a row house in a neighborhood that was not so nice back in the 80s to late 90s. It has really changed; to many…

Cupcakes and Pupcakes

Getting to do things for others really feeds my soul. I forget that sometimes, until I get a chance to do it and relish in the joy it brings for everyone involved. Last Friday, I hosted a small get-together for two friends and their dogs in celebration of one of the pups’ birthday. Mind you,…

Roasted Tomato Pasta

I read some meme the other day that said something about how when company is coming over those cleaning chores you’ve been putting off suddenly become a priority. That’s what’s going on around here. I’m throwing a “dog birthday party” for a canine and a couple of friends on Friday and there were some long…

Pinto Bean Soup

Since it seems like I have been on a nonstop meat-eating binge over the last week, I took action by making myself some plant-based soup on Friday. I’d saved a recipe for Pinto Bean Soup on my Pinterest page and so I pulled it up and began to cook. I had pretty much all the…

Tequila-Lime Chicken, Asparagus and Elote

There has been no rain. I mean, for Oregon — the Willamette Valley, not to mention the rest of the state — it’s dry. The measurable rain we’ve had over the past several months is barely even a couple of inches. While that’s worrisome for wildfire danger (at the least), the upside is it has…