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Maple Blossom Fritters
Ever since Flower went foraging for nettles, I have been intrigued by the idea of foraging. For awhile now, I have been hearing of people foraging for mushrooms and for all sorts of wild greens, even within the city limits. My friend Cara is the expert on foraging and I have been wanting to go mushroom foraging with her for awhile, but it hasn’t worked out time-wise yet (she often goes on weekdays and odd hours). When Cara came over last Saturday and asked if I wanted to go foraging for maple blossoms and then make maple blossom fritters, I said “Hell yeah!”. I did think we were going to…
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Portland Blogcademy Recap
If you follow me on social media at all, you have probably already seen a lot of photos from my weekend at the Blogcademy in Portland. I couldn’t wait to share them! But if you want to know how my weekend went and what the Blogcademy was like, read on! Blogcademy is a two day blogging workshop taught by Kat Williams of Rock n’ Roll Bride, Shauna Haider of the blog Nubby Twiglet and Gala Darling. The Portland Blogcademy was their 4th workshop (they go to L.A. next) and they will be starting their world tour after that. More info and dates can be found at www.theblogcademy.com It was held…
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March Cook the Books: Good Fish- Hangtown Fry!
The March cookbook, for the Cook the Books cookbook challenge (hosted by Meg of Grow and Resist and Oh Briggsy), is Good Fish: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the Pacific Coast by Becky Selengut. Becky is from Seattle, used to work at the Herbfarm and I think she should be my friend. She also has a podcast that I have become hooked on (thanks to Meg mentioning it in her overview of the cookbook), called Closed for Logging. I listen to a lot of podcasts and If I can listen to someone I don’t even know talk for an hour, and think they are hilarious, than they really must be funny. At…
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5 tips for Overcoming Being Overwhelmed by the Garden
photo by Amy Kiel With the arrival of Spring, and the official start of gardening season, I thought I would welcome in the new season, by talking about something that I experience every year around this time. No matter how diligently I put my garden to bed in the Winter, I always walk out to a yard that overwhelms me in the Spring. There’s dead stuff that needs to be pulled out and chopped up for compost. Then there are the beds that are compacted from a Winter’s worth of rain that need to be forked up (and root systems removed), so the soil is loose again. What has become my…
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Airstream Cushion Covers
When my friend Ali, owner of the amazing Idol Airstream Salon, asked me to sew cushion covers for her salon, that (like the name suggests) resides in an Airstream trailer in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle, I said hell yeah! I have long had an affinity for Airstreams and thought at one point that I would someday own one myself. I simply adore Ali and she has been my hairdresser for years. Ali has great taste to boot, so once she showed me the fabric she had picked out, I knew this would be a fun project. After making my Meringue skirt with piping, and three dog beds for Wyatt, I…
