Mixed Greens Blog

Mixed Greens Blog
Living Sustainably in the Pacific Northwest

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January
2012

Make Your Own Sandwich: Banh Mi (0)

Sometimes I fantasize about what it would be like to leave the city behind and live a simple life in our cabin on Orcas Island. I think about what things would I miss besides the most obvious — friends and our house in Seattle. For one thing, we Seattleites have incredible access not only to [...]

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In The Garden »

Raw Apple Cake for Breakfast or Birthdays
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Remnants of a gnarly, nearly century-old orchard on our property produces apples from August through mid-October. Three trees in the backyard, each a different variety, we have apples galore and we have our favorite recipes. Caramelized with brown sugar and cinnamon – great with ice cream, roasted applesauce, and this cake. Raw Apple Cake has [...]

Local Living »

Eat Local Now, Come to Dinner October 24th
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It would be nice to have you all over for a sumptuous autumnal meal. Poppy and I would cook, light some candles, you’d bring something along to put on the table, we’d celebrate the season’s harvest and share stories about our own triumphs and struggles with eating seasonally and locally. We’d come in costume as [...]

Local Vendors »

Eat Local Now! Come for Dinner
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Good food from close to home. We’d enjoy sitting down with all of you for such a Mixed Greens meal. We’d have a few things from the backyard garden and then a bunch of stuff from the farmer’s market, all of it from nearby. We’d have something with eggs and cheese, whatever fresh fruit is [...]

Season's Eatings »

Last ditch plunder from the garden . . . pesto
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Miraculous, since basil hates cool weather, that it hasn’t turned funky this past week. The opportune moment to preserve it might have been two or three weeks ago, but now will work. Turning our relatively small patch of basil into pesto will take about an hour and provide delicious flavor to dishes all winter long, [...]