April 19, 2023, 6:02am Clark County Life
What can you do with a pound of chicken, some leftover spaghetti sauce, a can of artichokes, an onion, a few carrots and a couple potatoes? You can make deep-dish chicken, that’s what — a multi-layered one-pot chicken-and-vegetable dish where everything cooks together. Read story
April 12, 2023, 6:10am Clark County Life
Bob Dylan said the times are a-changin’ and Buddhism wisely imparts that the only permanence is impermanence, but I would like to add that I don’t have to like it. I suppose it’s more accurate to say that I’ll like it if it’s good but not if it’s bad. The… Read story
April 5, 2023, 6:01am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive
my job is incredibly fun. Sometimes it’s dangerously close to playing, which keeps me feeling like a kid at heart. Kids let curiosity fuel their play, engaging with the world around them much like a scientist would. Play is fueled by the question, “What happens if I do this?” Read story
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