Here you will find an archived weblog of my food, travel, and creative pursuits which I kept from 2010-2016. Please note both that the travel information contained here may outdated and that these logs were created on a prior version of this website and may not yet be optimized for the current version. If you’re looking for specific content, use the search field below! <3
Our whole whirlwind trip to Europe late last summer was prompted by a very special wedding being held in the most fairy tale like setting: a historic French chateau. We were lucky enough to be able to stay at Chateau de Gilly and I'd highly recommend it for a base to explore the Burgundy region. Especially since you can walk in the moat...
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It's been a couple of months, but now I'm back on the Gluten Free Ratio Rally wagon! This month Brooke from B & The Boy is hosting and we're baking up tea bread. From the research I did, I learned that tea bread is very similar to a quick bread but with fewer eggs and only slightly sweetened. It's also best served on the same day it's baked, of course, with some tea. My favorite pairing with this particular bread? Darjeeling. For my ratio, I ended up with 6 parts flour, 5 parts milk, 1 part egg, 1 part sugar, and 1 part butter (fat).
Since I've been going on a total rhubarb frenzy recently (which you've likely noticed if you follow me on instagram), I decided I had to make a rhubarb tea bread. My final version, the one in the above photo, was actually made with rhubarb stalks from our edible garden - so that feels pretty good. I pumped up the flavor with vanilla and my other all time favorite, meyer lemon zest.
Make sure to check out everyone else's recipes too! I've included links to their tasty tea breads at the bottom of the post.
Where I Was Elsewhere On The Web
Sharing some tidbits of our wedding playlist as part of APW's new series.
What I Was Reading
As part of a new series on Call Me Cal, Jeanetta is sharing great gluten free friendly eateries around Los Angeles.
One part of California that's still close to my heart is the North Coast.
Since I consider the foreign service to be one of my ghost lives, I love this Kuala Lumpur post in the Notes from the Field Series.
I cannot wait for this book.
Wonderfully nerdy and gorgeous gluten free cookies.
Guatape looks beautiful.
I should probably write more about this subject, but I never made the transition from the SLR world to the DSLR world - partially because I can't afford it (and no, I can't afford to "invest" in it) and partially because the bulk doesn't suit my travel lifestyle. So I'm loving this best of list of high end point and shoots.
After living within walking or short driving distance of the Pacific for most of life - I crave time by the ocean. Kalaloch is quiet beach filled with beautiful piles of (dangerous) driftwood and it's probably my favorite getaway from the city. There's just something special about this place we visited on our first trip to Washington State, two years before we moved to Seattle, and where we went away together to work in on writing our wedding ceremony.
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Well, it's been a month since our 2013 edible gardening plans were tossed up in the air and the roughest part is that we still don't have any kind of closure or sense of exactly how and when our living situation might change. So we soldier on with a mobile version of our original plans.
It's been a chilly month in Seattle and our sprouts have been appearing rather sporadically. Although the addition of our Windowfarm (read more about that here) means that not all of our edibles growing quite so slowly. As I mentioned last month we started with the full grown plants but also began the process to start a few other plants from seed.
There are so many other great forms of community and information sharing around the web, I thought I'd take a moment to let you know where else you can find me. I'm a particularly big fan of Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter.
On Instagram, you'll find me posting lots of photos of Parsley, my Vizsla pup, real-time travel shots when I discover amazing new places, and lots of gluten free kitchen experimentation. You'll probably even catch a few sneak peeks about upcoming projects, recipes, and travel plans.
For today's offering of wanderlust, I give you a flashback to my first visit to Europe in 2001 - back when I was using an SLR and the Euro wasn't yet used. The first stop on our trip was Athens, Greece where we visited the Acropolis and I found myself much more taken with the Erechtheion temple than the Parthenon.
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It's almost hard to believe that my trip to San Diego in February was the last time I traveled out of state. While I was down there all of my future work travel was canceled (at least for the time being) so all I've got left are three short personal trips coming up later this month and in May. The time at home as been much needed - I don't recall the last time I can say I slept in my own bed for a consecutive month.
Either way, I'm glad my last trip was to San Diego. Since I lived there for 3 1/2 years it's an easy place to get around and when I went last year I discovered oodles of gluten free friendly eateries. While I generally make an effort to get out and try new places, I found myself returning to Casa Guadalajara a few times this trip. However I was able to pull myself away from their delicious Mexican food to try two new-to-me places that I now get to share with you!
When I get asked for recommendations on where to go in Northern Spain, my very first answer tends to be San Sebastian. It's a city that really has something for everyone; great shopping, some of the best pinxtos, a gorgeous stretch of beach, and plenty of history to be explored.
Read MoreWe were only in Bilbao for two nights and spent our only full day hiking the Itxina. So we only had a chance to walk around the outside of the famous Guggenheim Museum - lucky for us there was plenty to see.
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