Duck Soup and Pumpkin Bread, aka Thanksgiving Eve
Just a quick vignette: Our cozy boat on a rainy Thanksgiving Eve . . . three generations gathered over duck soup with parsnips, purple carrots and chanterelles, accompanied by pumpkin bread (made with coconut flour, 1/2 destined for tomorrow's stuffing) and sauerkraut . . . many hands peeling chestnuts for the stuffing (cheerfully!) . . . singing sea chanteys (and maybe an Irish drinking song thrown into the mix) . . . eight people around a table on a late Autumn night, enjoying the company, the food, the mood.Happy Thanksgiving! Fair Winds and Good Food to you all . . .

Spam, wind and rosehips . . .
Well, this was not what I intended to write about this morning, but here goes: I have been spammed--by some bot--with comment spam on every post I have I ever written! So, though it is a pain, I have instituted a "comment verification" requirement. You know, those annoying distorted letters and numbers t

How the Government Should Support Local Farms | Newsweek National News
Check out this website I found at ow.ly Even though I feel we are living in the land of plenty (by which I mean Clallam County specifically, not the USA as a whole) the issues in this article are pertinent even here. We have a wonderful local dairy, many viable produce farms, and local meat and fish. But don't have local cream and butter, due to the vagaries of regulation that would make our dairy farmer a food processor if he had a cream separator, which would make him subject to all sorts of onerous requirements. He would have to pave the parking lot of his small on-farm store, have handicapped parking, have public restro