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...
by Sarah Lemon | Dec 8, 2024 | Recipes, Winter
Do you switch up your salads according to the season? If apples have swapped places with tomatoes and citrus with cucumber, your salads are halfway there. Now consider the salad greens, themselves. The bulk of your salad bowl deserves a fresh look with each turn of...
by Sarah Lemon | Nov 19, 2024 | Recipes, Holidays, Fall, Winter
Fall in Southern Oregon brought a windfall of walnuts. Conditions this year clearly favored these hardwoods historically planted by the region’s homesteaders. But walk through most neighborhoods, and there’s a good chance you’ll encounter a walnut tree presiding over...
by Sarah Lemon | Oct 28, 2024 | Recipes, Vegetarian, Fall, Winter
Pumpkin may be autumn’s icon, but America’s favorite fall flavor arguably is butternut squash. Those little sugar pumpkins — aka pie pumpkins — certainly are cute in their corpulence. Their taste and texture, however, don’t appeal as much as their aesthetic. So food...
