Food the Wong Way

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  • Pro-Tip Tuesday: Splitting Squash

    Pro-Tip Tuesday: Splitting Squash

    This post is dedicated to my friend Abby, who inspired me to share this tip on how to cut into a stubborn winter squash when she told me she had a butternut waiting at her new apartment. Happy Thanksgiving week to those in the U.S. (and happy Autumn harvest to the rest)! Got a squash…

  • Pro-Tip Tuesday: Messaging your ‘Mate on a Plane

    Pro-Tip Tuesday: Messaging your ‘Mate on a Plane

    This one’s going to have terrible photos, people. Also, it’s random. What? You got a video yesterday.. If you’ve ever had the privilege to take a plane ride, but the simultaneous misfortune of being seated separately –or maybe coincidentally bumped into your friend you haven’t seen in for_ever on a plane– AND you have bluetooth…

  • Video Post: the World is Your Oyster! Just Try One…

    Video Post: the World is Your Oyster!
    Just Try One…

    The last stop coming back south from Bellingham was at Taylor Shellfish Farm. I was not fond of seafood as a kid, and growing up in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and no saltwater, who could blame me for only eating the fresh sunnies and walleye my parents would catch on a day off?

  • Tieton Cider Works at City Fruit

    Another week, another article for City Fruit’s 6th Annual Cider Taste (on November 10, 2016), written by Yours Truly. Tieton Cider Works at City Fruit’S 2016 Cider Tasting Check it out! All event proceeds will benefit the 2016 harvest, which brings fresh, local fruit to over 50 meal programs and food banks across the city.

  • Snowdrift Cider at City Fruit’s Annual Cider Tasting

    Hey folks, you may recall an earlier springtime post on a Fruit Cycle tour, it was arranged by City Fruit, a nonprofit in Seattle which works to promote and protect urban fruit trees, and share the extra fruit with those in need. City Fruit’s 6th Annual Cider Taste is on November 10, 2016. In the…

  • Food Literacy Month – a look back

    Well folks, apparently September was food literacy month. I went to the Downtown Seattle Public Library for a Food Literacy/Food Justice Panel, got to hear from some folks representing organizations in Seattle doing really good things for our community. Here are a few thoughts.

  • Bank Your DIY Holiday Gift Game with..
    Beeswax Coconut Candles

    One of these days I will finally sort through my reflections from hiking Sahale Arm and seeing a glacier up close, or adventures in the Catskill Mountains of New York, but in the mean time, this: The days are getting shorter, the weather’s getting crisper early in the morning. School supply ads reign supreme on…

  • Tricking Yourself into Exercise: Recipe for an Active Day on Two Wheels with City Fruit

    Tricking Yourself into Exercise:
    Recipe for an Active Day on Two Wheels with City Fruit

    I really wanted you to know this: Apples most likely originated in Kazakhstan from the Malus sieversii and brought over to America with European colonists then became a part of American culture with a little help from Mr. Appleseed himself, John Chapman. Around the turn of the 19th century, Johnny Appleseed bought some apple seeds…

  • What is healthy to eat? Nutritionists vs American Public

      Twenty years ago, I think we knew about 10 percent of what we need to know” about nutrition, said Dariush Mozaffarian, the dean of the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. “And now we know about 40 or 50 percent.” Read more at the NYTimes’ The Upshot: Is Sushi ‘Healthy’? What About…

  • How to Beat the Heat: Office Edition (Skill Level: Beginner Cook)

    Here in the Pacific Northwest, folks are still getting used to having more than a week’s worth of 80+F degree weather. Many houses don’t have air conditioning, and even offices can feel pretty warm. Mine is LEED-aspirational, which means the temps swing up and down just outside most people’s comfort zone, and certainly outside mine.…