by Sarah Lemon | Apr 2, 2025 | Recipes
Pasta is a mainstay of my kitchen, something I simply won’t do without. I’ve been known to say that if stranded on a desert island with only one food to eat for the rest of my life, I’d choose pasta, provided I also had butter or oil and salt. Not the most...
by Sarah Lemon | Mar 11, 2025 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Spring
My enthusiasm for eggs runs strong all year long. So it’s easy to forget that this supermarket staple has a season — unless you make a point to shop the region’s first farmers markets of spring. While March markets’ fresh produce is still scanty — even supplemented...
by Sarah Lemon | Jan 19, 2025 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Spring, Winter
It’s a bleak season for seasonal eaters in Southern Oregon — a time of “default-mode” cooking, rather than inspiration from nature. After a solid three months of eating winter squash, interspersed with potatoes and root vegetables, propped up by hardy greens, I’m...
by Sarah Lemon | Jan 5, 2025 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Winter
After the celebration comes the catharsis — that inevitable literal and figurative purging following the holiday season. After taking down and packing up holiday decorations this week, I deep-cleaned the kitchen, sifted through piles of paperwork on my desk and...
by Sarah Lemon | Dec 20, 2024 | Recipes, Holidays, Winter
My grandmother was the queen of Christmas. “Elf” might be a more fitting title, given her diminutive stature. But my grandma didn’t discreetly execute anyone else’s holiday plan. She orchestrated the whole show — with sights, smells and tastes to ensure everyone...
