Mixed Greens Blog

Mixed Greens Blog
Living Sustainably in the Pacific Northwest

01
September
2010

Fannie Farmer & My Squash Casserole (4)

When I was a young mother I took the role of feeding my family very seriously starting with growing fresh produce to cooking meals from scratch. Summer squash was easy to grow, sometimes so easy that I ended up with much more than we needed and was constantly trying to think of new ways to [...]

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In The Garden »

Wilted Lettuce Salad, Wicked Good
(3)

Lettuce loves it when it rains every other day, loves the cool, it dances a jig and flaunts bedazzling arrays of emerald and lime green, dark purple and bronze. The lettuce patch shares a little something with the slugs – any, that is, who survive Bob’s headlamped nighttime slug patrols – and still there’s plenty. [...]

Local Living »

PC Fast Food @ Burgerville
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The concepts of political correctness and a cheeseboiga don’t seem compatible. Oxymoronish maybe. But then there’s Burgerville, a fast food joint with sustainability at its heart. Go figure. And there are quite a few to choose from along the I-5 corridor from soutwestern Washington through central/southern Oregon.
A quote [...]

Local Vendors »

Giving Thanks
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There’s a tradition in my family of going around the table on Thanksgiving giving each person a turn to speak about what they are most grateful for. Since we’ve invited you to our virtual kitchen table, I thought I’d start things off by expressing some of the many things I’m thankful for. Please feel free [...]

Season's Eatings »

Ravishing Roasted Radishes
(5)

Why is it that the vegetables that are the easiest to grow are the ones I tire of most quickly? I didn’t even plant radishes this year figuring I’d get more than enough at the farmers market and didn’t need to take up valuable space in my garden. That was before I tried roasting them. [...]