March 29, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Karen Lander, a Columbian reader from the Salmon Creek area, recently gave our family a priceless gift: her mom Hattie Barton’s famous brownie recipe. At least, it’s famous within Lander’s family. But now it’s famous in my family, too. These rich, chewy, super-chocolatey brownies are an instant cure for what… Read story
March 22, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life
Millet is the most marvelous cereal you’ve never heard of, although you’ve definitely seen it a thousand times because unhulled millet is the main ingredient in bird seed. Birds love it and people should, too. I can’t figure out why it hasn’t become trendy like quinoa, because it shares many… Read story
March 15, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
When the boss gently hints that you should do something, it’s prudent to pay attention. Fortunately, the gentle hint I recently received was regarding sharing a recipe for Irish food, so I’m all in. I reviewed the usual suspects: soda bread, colcannon, Irish stew, Guinness brownies. They all sounded good,… Read story
March 1, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life
Whenever I was sick as a girl, my mother made me Campbell’s tomato soup. She’d set up a TV table in the family room next to the couch, where, home from school for the day, I’d be snuggled up on the couch watching reruns of “Gilligan’s Island.” She’d bring me… Read story
February 22, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
I made a big batch of healthy hummus last week and bought a bag of mini-pitas to go with the dip. The delicious hummus was gone in a few days, but we didn’t end up eating most of the cute little pitas, each about 3 inches in diameter. Pita bread… Read story
February 15, 2023, 6:04am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
Healthy eating is something I don’t often mention in this column, which is more about having a laugh in my kitchen than it is about how to make a fat-free, sugar-free cheesecake. (Yuck. Just eat an apple instead.) The recipes are a simply an engaging way to explore the connections… Read story
February 8, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
My father is a collector of vintage ephemera. That’s a nice way of saying that he likes old stuff, but then, so do I, so I guess we’re even. Occasionally he’ll send me pictures of old-timey advertisements from the 1930, ’40s and ’50s that now seem charmingly earnest and naive. Read story
February 1, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life
To celebrate Lunar New Year, our family went to Uwajimaya Asian Market in Beaverton, Ore. We bought tea, mochi, matcha pudding and warm char siu bao (steamed buns filled with barbecued pork). We also sampled chicken wontons in a spicy chili oil sauce. They were delicious, like little meat clouds.… Read story
January 25, 2023, 6:03am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
I have a note tacked up next to my desk that says, “Go all in. The joy is the thing.” I suppose that’s a colloquial paraphrase of Ecclesiastes 9:10: “Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.” Of course, no one ever mentions the depressing second… Read story
January 18, 2023, 6:00am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
At dinner with friends last weekend, the conversation veered toward New Year’s resolutions. The hostess revealed that “drink more tea” was on her list for 2023. It’s such a lovely aspiration, far better than “get a gym membership” or “eat more vegetables” or “do something about those awful toilet bowl… Read story
