I am a registered dietitian nutritionist who lives in Seattle, Washington with my husband, Bruce. We previously lived in Idaho on a "mini farm" when I started this blog fourteen years ago. I was often emphasizing our backyard chickens that we raised for 17 years that came with the house when we moved in.
In Idaho, I worked as a clinical dietitian at two local hospitals, one with in-patients and the other in home care. I have worked as a dietitian for 30 years in the hospital setting and out-patient setting including a private practice in Seattle counseling patients before moving to Idaho in 1998. We moved back to Seattle in 2015 and couldn't be happier being home again. But our farm life in Idaho was quite the trip for this city girl. I often made cream pies with our dairy goats' milk
and I did lots of canning and preserving from our two gardens and fruit tree orchard.
Anybody want an Idaho potato?
I mainly started this blog after my two children moved back to the Seattle area and kept asking for "that recipe" from home. The kitchen has always been the center of activity in our house and we are always cooking up great feasts and entertaining with food for our many friends and family members. I raised my two children practicing child nutrition guidelines of Ellyn Satter, RD, that I still recommend. You can get her book here. Hence, both my children have developed a love of food, cooking and experimenting with new foods, just like Mom.
Here is my daughter, Lauren, making an Italian feast after her travels to Italy where she developed a love of Italian food.
My son, Nick and his wife, Sachiyo, lived in Japan with our two precious grandchildren for seven years and only recently moved back to the U.S.
Needless to say, we visited Japan often and loved to feast on all the Japanese food that Japan has to offer. Much of it Nick and Sachiyo prepare for us at their home.
Our visits always involved hitting all of Nick and Sachiyo's favorite places to eat out, as well. And there were many! It was always such a treat.
My son, Nick and his wife, Sachiyo, lived in Japan with our two precious grandchildren for seven years and only recently moved back to the U.S.
Needless to say, we visited Japan often and loved to feast on all the Japanese food that Japan has to offer. Much of it Nick and Sachiyo prepare for us at their home.
Our visits always involved hitting all of Nick and Sachiyo's favorite places to eat out, as well. And there were many! It was always such a treat.
Now, we are all enjoying living close by again since their return to America and we couldn't be happier.
I hope you enjoy my adventures with food and our family favorite recipes.