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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Fridge muffins provide a healthful snack
SCHOOL IS BACK in session and it’s a good time to check in on your snack pantry.
Betsy Wharton
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: For quick camp cooking, bring along broth
CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION from May about camp cooking, recently we camped on a cobble beach on the Hoh…
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Minimalist cooking is key on road trips
THIS IS GOING to be a very different summer.
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Pickled halibut can be used for future meals
THE PHONE RANG around 6 p.m. last Saturday.
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Desperately seeking dandelions
EVERY RECIPE HAS a story and this one begins at a popular Port Angeles pub.
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Enjoy what you have
BY THE TIME you read this, snowmaggedon might be a soggy memory, or perhaps a lingering
pile of…
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Compare different recipes for taste, quickness
IT MAY COME as no surprise that I receive cookbooks for holiday gifts.
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Collard greens and black-eyed peas bring luck, prosperity
WITH CHRISTMAS JUST a couple of days away, I find myself thinking ahead.
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: An old dessert adds a sparkle to Thanksgiving
I MET A reader in the bulk section of our local food store last week.
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Broths warm you up in cool weather
LEAVES TURNING, NEW snow on the mountains and the short days of winter on their way.
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Many mushrooms make mouths moisten
IT’S MUSHROOM SEASON and fervent foragers are finding fungi fruiting in the forests.
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Seize the moment for heat-loving summer vegetables
FROM A NORTHWEST locavore’s perspective late August is the long-awaited time of year when we can finally access…
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Cooking grass-fed beef requires lower heat, longer times
THE FIRST TIME I splurged on a locally grazed, 100 percent grass-fed sirloin steak, well … quite honestly,…
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: For a change of pace, make your own soap
TAKING A BREAK from the kitchen this week, I thought I’d share a recipe meant for the laundry…
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Choose My Plate plan provides healthful meal
FORGIVE ME WHILE I geek out a little about nutrition.
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Use spices, herbs to enhance and enrich recipes
ANCIENT TRADERS CROSSED continents and fought wars for access to culinary and medicinal spices.
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: A kale soup for all seasons
A COUPLE OF weeks ago, I received a handwritten letter (a wonderful
and rare occurrence these days) from…
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Leeks, a mild onion relative, are great to have around
ON FEB. 17, I walked into TAFY (The Answer for Youth) to begin my weekly shift as garden…
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: It’s thyme to start harvesting fresh plants
THE SKIES HAVE been mostly gloomy and news reports (real or imagined) leave me feeling either scared or…
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PENINSULA KITCHEN: Pot pie helps use up leftover meat
I HAD THE pleasure of visiting with Kate McDermott last week, our very own local food celebrity.