November 1, 2011
There’s nothing I love more than a family business success story. Even better, a local (to me) Tacoma family business.
I work in a family business myself, and I know the joys and challenges of working with family. It seems to me that the ladies of Lynnae’s Gourmet Pickles have got it figured out and are producing a mighty fine pickle, one jar at a time.
I have a confession. I lead a double life. A Big Mouthful is my food blog mainly focused on recipes. And then there’s Tacoma Foodie, a Twitter and Facebook I maintain to fulfill my local food and restaurant fix. This is how I found about Lynnae’s Gourmet Pickles, and I thought I’d share it with you, O’ Big Mouthful reader.
October 12, 2011
What fun! I’m going to be participating in Will Bake for Food, a food blogger bake sale to help fight hunger in our community! The event is November 12, 2011 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (or until we run out of goodies) at the University Heights Center in Seattle.
The blogger-run bake sale will be benefiting the Emergency Feeding Program, which provides food to families in the Seattle and King County area, with almost half of their meals going to children.
Last year was a great success, and here are the stats:
- 1631 items sold by 54 bakers, including 108 cupcakes, 82 whoopie pies, 473 cookies, and 150 vanilla beans
- 2 drink dudes who pulled 138 cups (55 coffee, 83 cider) in 90 minutes
- 300 people through the door in under 2 hours
- about 20 volunteers who made the event sing
- 1903lbs of food and $946
So fabulous! I’m looking forward to being part of such an awesome event. I have some tasty recipes in mind that I will share in another post!
October 9, 2011
As the summer has dwindled down, (wait, who am I kidding, we hardly had a summer in the Pacific Northwest!@@!$), there has been one dish on my mind haunting me from the last time I made it last winter.
Kale is not necessarily a sexy vegetable. It’s green — very green, and has a hard, incorrigible stalk, and tastes like…well, it tastes really healthy. Because it IS healthy! It’s healthy, and beautiful, and green and you must eat it. Eat it today, eat it tomorrow and feed it to your children. I’ll get off my platform now.
Brown rice can be thought of as hippie-only food, chewy, brown and — gasp, different than white rice! But it has really grown on me, and I try to substitute it in for its white counterpart as often as I can. I have really grown to love its nutty chewiness, and can respect its health benefits.
Put these two hard for some to love ingredients together, add cheese and whole milk, and what do you get? Magic. Magical comfort food deliciousness.
