Mixed Greens Blog

Mixed Greens Blog
Living Sustainably in the Pacific Northwest

08
March
2010

What’s Up With the Paper Cup? (1)

Oscars tonight. In the meantime something else to ponder, and sorry, no gowns involved. It’s the not-so-glamorous, but equally frivolous paper cup. Use them once and discard. While others have been carrying their reusable cups into coffee shops the past few years, I rarely have. Truthfully, I don’t buy much coffee out, but still, I [...]

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In The Garden »

Hats off to Johnny: A PNW Waldorf Salad
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Johnny the vagabond meets the highfalutin Waldorf and together they make a mean PNW salad.
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The romanticized Johnny Appleseed, Johnny Chapman, was a real appleseed-totin’-plantin’-canoe-travelin’ eccentric with a passion for apples. At first he was as wild as the seeds he carried, wrote Michael Pollan in Botany of Desire (published 2001).  [...]

Local Living »

Wishes for Happy and Healthy Holidays
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Sally and I are taking a very short break to spend time with our friends and families over the holidays. We’ll be back early in 2010 with renewed energy and ideas to share with you. With new light of the winter solstice I find myself looking for inspiration, walking in the woods, sleeping and eating [...]

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 »

Fondues Warm the Longest Nights
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Fondues are the perfect foil for winter blues, something gooey and melted wrapped around almost anything that we can dip or stick a fork into. For Pacific Northwesterners today is the year’s shortest day, longest night. Winter Solstice. Although we don’t dance around maypoles in chiffon, we do we have seasonal food rituals and celebrations [...]