Sep 7
I’m just back from a whirlwind birthday weekend in New Orleans – there’s still glitter on my face and bags under my eyes – and am already dreaming about muffalettas and jumbalayas and sleeping on a bed of beignets. But before my eyes turn too much toward Fall (that’s what happens when Labor Day is behind you, yes?), I have a lot of summer left to share. Read more
What impresses me most in terms of culinary skill is the ability to make something out of nothing. Or, rather, the ability to make an interesting, tasty dish out of whatever you have lying around. Instead of picking a recipe and tracking down the ingredients, the ability to look around at what you have and put something together. This is something the CSA has forced us to do more than we ever did before – one of the many reasons I appreciate it. Read more
Jul 10
It used to be that when I had a night at home by myself I would choose to eat something ridiculously easy and bad for me – like fast food indian fare, or barbeque, or an entire Chipotle burrito (which, by the way, turns out is significantly worse for you than a KFC Double-Down). But ever since this lady turned me on to eggs-on-things, I just can’t seem to stay away and it has become my mainstay solo home dining activity. I’m pretty sure I posted sometime this winter or spring about at least one time we had eggs on cabbage, or brussels sprouts, or kale, or something like that, but there’s no way I have accurately portrayed just how much we’ve eaten a take on eggs-on-things over the past 6 months. Read more
Jan 26
It is not the wedding ring on my finger, the china in the cupboard, the guest bedroom, nor the solid wood bedroom set we bought ourselves for Christmas (I love you, solid wood furniture, by the way) but the sentence I am about to write that officially makes me an adult: Braised cabbage might be one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Read more
I love grocery stores. It’s probably rare that anyone has been that emphatic about such a place, but in my case this excitement is in no way overstated, fleeting, or insignificant. I was raised on the luxury shopping experience of Minneapolis-based chain Byerly’s/Lund’s thanks to my caterer grandmother and the fact that it was by far the closest store to my house, and it wasn’t until moving to Claremont that I realized the average grocery store didn’t have chandeliers and wall-to-wall carpet, nor as wide and as high-quality a selection of items. This is not at all an indicator that my young life was full of gourmet foods or fancy lifestyle habits, but rather that my family enjoys to have their Doritos and cases of Coke brought to their car for them and that Saturday lunches meant the store’s hearty selection of free weekend samples from the time I was 6 years old. Read more
My name is Bowen and I'm a cooking instructor/food writer/home cook in Seattle, WA. I'm dedicated to community-based food systems that nourish people and planet alike, and this site is an extension of my kitchen - seasonal, fresh food and cocktails made with heart (and sometimes an indecent amount of olive oil) to share with friends and loved ones.
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