Recipes
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Baked Salmon Steaks
Salmon steaks, ideally, are from a firm fish. There's a wild taste because it's baked with the bones in and the skin is on. I tried a cajun Louisiana fish fry mix. Baking on parchment paper makes...
Zucchini Lasagna
The highlight of my summer cooking has been preparing zucchini lasagna. This recipe will feed four. I selected a uniform shaped zucchini, medium size. Plus I ventured to try my hand at using a...
Vegetable Beef Soup
Fresh vegetables are the main ingredients to this recipe. I chopped them fairly small and uniform in size. The beef selections are stew meat, steak tips, cut-up steak or roast. Browning the beef adds...
Pasta with Pesto
I was recently gifted pesto on two occasions. One from Jane Stephens, who lives in town and one from Ann Maroney, who works in town. The balsamic vinegar is a bit overpowering in flavor and color....
Jalapeño Jelly
Of the jams and jellies I make and can at home, jalapeño jelly is the most requested. Even the years I do not make it, someone will ask for it. This year I bought jalapeños from La Conner Gardens...
Zucchini Bread
Zucchini is one of those summer perpetual vegetables. It grows in abundance and if you do not garden, friends will often give away their excess. Or you can still buy them at a good price from the...
Spicy Cucumber Salad
This could be served as a spicy condiment with rice and your choice of meat. I eat this as a snack, to carry me over while our dinner meal is prepared. When I began preparing Korean dishes, I started...
Summer Cake
Serve with fresh berries and whipped cream. When the fresh berry season arrives in Skagit County, we enjoy this cake often. The vanilla flavor and crunchy edges offers so much more than what we might...
Grilled Steak with Basic Rub
Select your steak. I chose a one pound two ounce grass-fed strip loin steak. To grill, I used an electric grill, two sided, from Pampered Chef. To oil the grill, I used a pastry brush and Safflower...
Fresh Berry Cake
This is a layered cake with berries on the bottom and cake batter on top. Fresh picked raspberries, everbearing strawberries and wild strawberries. The wild strawberries we were gifted from a friend...
Salsa
This is a water bath canning recipe for half-pint jars. I use the Instant Pot to prepare the tomatoes. I also use a hand-cranked food mill to finish processing the tomatoes. 20 medium tomatoes...
Rhubarb Crumble
It’s rhubarb season. I let mine grow until there is a special occasion. Then I bake a dessert to enjoy with family. On this occasion, it was the dinner party to celebrate the graduation of our...
Fresh Herb and Flower Salad
Our herbs and flowers are flourishing in our garden! It’s quite lovely. You can pick to your taste. Fresh is always best! Most of our raised beds are a few feet off the ground. So despite the heavy...
Blueberry Smothie
Blueberries! We love blueberries! We live in an area where acres and acres of blueberries are grown. We eat gallons of blueberries each year. I freeze blueberries and gift them to family. Ingredients Plain yogurt, 1 cup Blueberries, 1cup Honey, 2...
Asian Marinade for Steak & Veggies
A flat iron steak is perfect for this recipe. After marinating the steak four hours, I used an indoor electric grill. While it was grilling, I prepped fresh veggies. I used a double sided grill from...
Baked Salmon
A Sunday evening meal that includes salmon is always enjoyable. I recently paired it with steamed brown rice and asparagus cooked in olive oil with fresh garlic. Kevin’s favorite part is the tail. A...
Warm Lemon Water
We regularly drink lemon water. This method was a game changer for us. As for preparation, it’s as simple as it gets. The result, with some added honey is so soothing. Lemons come in different...
Spot Prawns
This recipe is much simpler than the recipe I wrote for this column in July 2016. I believe it’s quicker. You use live spot prawns. Keep them on ice until ready to cook. I cooked up two pounds of fr...
Berry Cobbler
These are the ingredients I always keep on hand: milk, flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and frozen berries. Mix them all up and we have a wonderful snack and something to enjoy with the morning...
Tater Tot Casserole
This is a recipe I learned to prepare only after I married Kevin. It was served at a tribe’s community dinner. I resolved to cook it for us, at home. The last time I prepared this meal was eight...
Bacon Wrapped Steak Bites
This is a recipe for the air fryer. Two tips I have learned about cooking with an air fryer is to use tin foil and parchment paper. I have a basket-type air fryer. I turn the basket upside down and...
Salmon Pie
One of my Alaskan friends introduced me to this pie. Then I noticed one of my Alaskan cousins was making it. Then one of my husband’s cousins, who is part Alaska native, made it. It seemed like a ma...
Blueberry Tomato Salad
Any variety of tomato would be delicious in this recipe. I used small cherry tomatoes, cut in half or thirds. Cutting tomatoes allows the flavor from the tomatoes to intermingle. I checked my raised...
Quick and Easy Frybread
My only New Year’s resolution this year was to learn to make frybread. Swinomish offered two classes and I signed up for the afternoon class. In Swinomish and among many tribes, you hit elder...
Eggplant Stuffed with Meatloaf
This is an incredible recipe. When cooking eggplant, it is best salted to remove some of the bitter flavor. The meatloaf is just vegetables, spices and ground beef – no fillers. I had only one...