Easy breakfast and delicious lunch from Salumi. Cotteccino (pork sausage with salt and vanilla) with grilled radicchio/onions/garlic butter.

Laura Cassidy's awesome poncho- the colors are perfect aren't they? Happy birthday Laura!

Another roasted chicken success! The best are the veggies that have the most delicious favor after cooking in the juices.

This weekend I got to meet the sweetest Bergamasco with the best dreads! You can only imagine how much I've dreamed of having one of these! Ahhh, what I would do to felt with their hair! Sadly most owners refuse to cut it :(

I can't go without breakfast. One of my favorite breakfasts is something Molly taught me called a "poor man's breakfast", which is in my opinion the best kind of cooking. Her dad used to make it for her. It is left over rice with a cracked egg mixed in, plus whatever you have- a little onion/salt/pepper, then made into a patty and fried. So satisfying...

The sun was out all last week! Today it was not the case, but we had a nice time this weekend strolling around and stumbled on a nice boathouse restaurant where we had some oysters and beer and watched the sunset.

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lunch

dinner: heirloom quinoa with feta, nettle, yellow pepper with garlic/lemon/chili

The plants were very happy this week because it has been so sunny! Also, we got a bunch of Saint James shirts in at Totokaelo- they're awesome!

I love the little 'show and tell' shelves at Tap Plastics

Our studio! It's coming along nicely!

Breakfast, lunch, and dinner! Malt-o-meal with raspberries and blueberries...

salad with cod, dill, tomato, and left over crusty bread, lemon/salt/pepper/oil

Cannellini bean with roasted tomato and grilled anchovy + chard with lemon and feta

"Sheep is Life" documentary by Diné be’ iiná. A magical documentary about the Navajo Churro sheep

Ironing is nice sometimes, almost meditative.

Sunday dinner: goat medallion with rosemary and garlic, purple potato and rutabaga, and nettle topped with Regina Olive Oil salt/pepper.

Happy Heart Day! Yesterday I went to a day retreat called "Love vs. Attachment" which seemed kind of appropriate with Valentine's Day being today and all. It was really great and I feel very refreshed! We had a nice day today: went to the Farmer's Market in the morning, went to Le Pichet and had the longest most wonderful lunch, then went for a walk around town, and now we're cooking some veggies we got at the market. Here is a little snipbit from my notes at the workshop:
affectionate love- love of mother for child
cherishing love - seeing them as precious and important
wishing love- the ultimate love, wishing others to be happy
So here it is: I truly wish happiness for all of you who leave such nice notes and share such beautiful things, you are really inspiring and I feel so fortunate to know you through this weird phenomenon called a blog :)

Here is one the best things I brought back from Portland. I have been dying to get this since I saw it on May's blog a while ago, it's my dream dish soap. It is a French olive oil soap square for washing dishes! You just rub your scrub brush on it... and voila- clean dishes :) It is from May's shop Nationale where I really really have been dying to go to, but it was closed. Next time :) Thanks Giovanna!

A little drive to Deception Pass this last weekend and it was SUNNY! Crazy...

Tuna salad with avocado and lemon, salt/pepper

A jean jacket I found at Buffalo Exchange that I cut the pockets off of...

A new bottle of Regina! The best stuff on earth :) You don't even need vinegar I swear, just a little Meyer lemon and salt and pepper

Leftover ribs from the best bbq in town

Radish and avocado salad

Dinner! With a little homemade hummus on the side :)

Here are some more findings from Umajimaya:

glass storage jars

wooden sake cups

razor

black q-tips!

little dish rags