If you have more than 3 ripe bananas…. 1. Double your recipe and ~freeze one loaf or ~take a loaf to that neighbor you should have introduced yourself to months ago OR 2. Peel remaining bananas, break into chunks and freeze. Put 2 or 3 in a zip lock bag, then you can easily thaw [...]
Last night we foodbuzz food bloggers journeyed from afar to gather at Brasa on 3rd Ave in Seattle. Our hostess blogger Nurit reserved us a large swath of tables in the bar (which turned out to be an unnecessary move considering that we were only joined by two other parties in the entire restaurant!). Before [...]
For a while now I’ve been wanting to discuss a certain term applied to those of us in the culinary blogging world. No doubt you can guess what word this is. “FOODIE” Every time I hear this word, I cringe a bit. Not that I don’t enjoy learning about and appreciating food, but, ewwwww, if [...]
In classic Julie Jams fashion yesterday, I totally overdid it. Seeing as it was a holiday yesterday, the whole family piled into the uber-awesome minivan and drove up to the Cascade foothills to do a little hiking. I mean, it’s January in Washington State…a perfect time for a family hike. The temperature was hovering near [...]
There are oh so many peach cliches out there dying to make there way into this post…but perhaps the most accurate one is that I’m “up to my eyeballs in peaches.” My neighbor regularly visits her family in Eastern Washington, passing right through massive amounts of orchards. I was most interested in peaches this time [...]
