Peppercorn Press

We were very excited to try the Nature’s Pride breads. In an effort to improve our wellbeing, we are constantly on the lookout for products that are Whole Wheat or Whole Grain. We tested ours in a variety of ways, and all were delicious.

At Christmas, an employee and good friend of ours made us a gift basket filled with many great small gifts, including fantastic candied pecans. Today she brought us another bag full and gave us the recipe as a gift as well.

Recently we were at the Pike Place Public Market and stumbled across a vendor selling wonderful fresh chanterelle mushrooms. The next day this savory dish of pork chops over pasta was born.

Every Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter with our families, one of our aunts or mothers (please don’t tell them we said this) struggles with the turkey gravy.  We can end up with anything from light brown flavorless water to lumpy turkey flavored pudding!  Each of them means well, and everyone in the family will always swear [...]

We stayed cuddled up warm and cozy at home this last weekend and made a pot of soup using this fresh tomato soup recipe, which we ate piping hot with grilled cheese sandwiches. It was not a glamorous meal, but it certainly fit the chilly winter wonderland scene we could see out our windows.

These delicious and elegant appetizers are one of our most easy party appetizers.  A great time to serve these simple easy cold appetizers, is when a hungry crowd of your guests who are waiting for Christmas dinner, begin to gather in your kitchen – and in your way!  We prepare these salmon bites in advance [...]

A few years ago we were eating at one of our then favorite restaurants in Seattle, Palomino, when I tried their carbonara.  Carbonara has always been one of our favorite Italian pasta recipes, and I had had carbonara in other restaurants previously.  However, on this particular day for some reason it struck me as completely [...]