Reading from May 2013

Have you heard of Maptia yet? Not only do I wholeheartedly agree with their manifesto - but I'm loving the fantastic interviews going up on their blog. As part of their project to spread their manifesto around the world, we took a photo of it while we were camping on Lopez Island this past month.

What I Was Reading (& Watching)

I'm working on creating my first trip video with footage from Lopez Island, WA - so I've been watching lots of others for inspiration. Some of my favorites found via Afar; a couple's journey in South America, surfing in Bali, and a trip around the world in 60 seconds. And via Adventure Journal; climbing in Greenland. 

My roommate from Camp Mighty has been reflecting on her 21 days in Vietnam.

Lessons Learned from 11 Years of Travel.

Tasty things I've pinned: Lemon Lavender Frozen Yogurt, Simple Banoffee Pie, Churros

Marin County is one part of California I just can't get over - so I love this tour of Mill Valley.

Did I ever tell you how I left Christchurch just hours before that major earthquake? Dave wrote a wonderful piece about returning to his hometown after the quake.

Annie wrote a wonderful piece about the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn.

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The Edible Garden Project: May 2013 Update

The Edible Garden Project www.glutenfreetravelette.com

All the seeds have sprouted and our edible garden is growing mighty well - even though the Seattle weather seems to be on some sort of roller coaster ride (we've even had hail). Things seem even better when I go back to look at last months pictures of all the teeny tiny sprouts. In even better news, our living situation has finally been straightened out and we'll get to stay in our rental house for at least another year. Phew!

That means we've planted the center bed and after moving it, the first bed will also be planted for a fall crop (or winter, depending on when we get it moved). Overall, we should have a much grander and more varied harvest than last year. 

How grand and varied a harvest you ask? Well, at this point we've got about 50 different varieties of of edible plants growing around our property and I've got the full inventory in the rest of the post.

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Rhubarb & Vanilla Yogurt Scones with Rhubarb Curd

Rhubarb & Vanilla Yogurt Scones with Rhubarb Curd www.glutenfreetravelette.com

It's a rhubarb frenzy around our house while the prices are still low and so far I've made jam, pie, shrub, and tea bread. I thought, why not make some scones and curd too! I'm pretty happy with the base scone recipe I've been using for other versions like the Meyer Lemon Curd and Whole Grain Blueberry - this is just a slight adaptation to use vanilla sheep milk yogurt and added rhubarb pieces.

For the curd, I used my Meyer Lemon Curd recipe as a base but pumped up the amount of juice to up the rhubarb flavor. I also added more sugar since I was looking for a sweeter curd rather than a tarter version. For the rhubarb juice, I opted to boil down about 5 stalks of rhubarb since my research on the interwebs informed this would probably give me a sweeter and less tart version than simply running the stalks through my juicer. 

Speaking of rhubarb, while I was searching for more ideas on what to make with rhubarb I came across this nerdy Star Trek recipe for Aaktay, or Klingon Steamed Bread. So I'll have to try adapting it to be gluten free sometime while rhubarb is still in season. Anyone have a suggestion on what I could substitute for "all-bran cereal"? I was thinking brown rice flakes perhaps. 

Alright that's enough nerdy recipe talk, on to the scones and curd!

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Things You Should Do in Washington: Hike To Lake Serene
Things You Should Do in Washington: Hike To Lake Serene

One of the reasons I was so keen on the move to Washington State was living in close proximity to the mountains and especially the snow. So it's a little sad that over the course of this past winter my first visit to the snow came just a little over a week ago in May. Our mountains were all quite snowy still, so I spent a while looking at trip reports on Washington Trails Association for hikes that would at least be considered passable without any special equipment.

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Split Pea Soup with Bacon

Split Pea Soup with Bacon www.glutenfreetravelette.com

This past winter I really haven't been into soup but now that we're deep in spring, all I seem to want is comforting soups. We've had two different soups on repeat in our food rotation; a dairy free tomato bisque and split pea soup. Up until recently, my attempts at split pea always turned out rather bland - but I've finally worked away at the recipe to get what I want. My theory is that I was missing a very key ingredient: bacon. And not just added bacon to the final soup, but cooking it in the same pot that you're soup will spend two hours simmering away in.

For a vegan version of this soup, you could easily skip the bacon all together and just cook the vegetables in 2 tablespoons of your favorite cooking oil. Adding some slices of cooked shiitake mushrooms would help pump up the flavor in somewhat similar way to the bacon.

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Walking Northwest Seattle
Walking Northwest Seattle

Of all the places I’ve lived, I’ve never explored any of them by foot the way I have in my adopted hometown of Seattle, Washington. Perhaps it’s something about the unique personality of the Ballard and Phinney Ridge neighborhoods or perhaps it has more to due with the lack of West-East/East-West public transit. Over the course of a typical weekend, I find myself taking a number of walks to explore the neighborhood along with my husband and our pup. 

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