MAPLE PERSIMMON UPSIDE-DOWN CAKE adapted from food52.com Mary’s NOTES This cake, adapted from a Food52 recipe, is amazing. Fresh persimmons resting in maple syrup and melted butter on the bottom of the traditional cast iron pan give the cake on top an incredible caramelized crunch around the edges. The maple cream cheese frosting is wonderful, […]
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August again, already. 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic just won’t quit. We got vaccinated. Took a trip to Kauai. Thought we were about to get back to normal. But then . . . the whole country slid backwards. Wearing masks again, even though vaccinated. The new Delta variant … Weed it and Reap. And yet our
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“What is the Northwest? Anywhere the salmon can get to.” Timothy Egan. A Year Without Rain This year, there is so little water in the streams and rivers that the Coho Salmon had to be rescued by volunteers from the Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project. Ground Hog Day. Today we had the first real