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Recipe of the Week: Leafy Greens and Coconut Milk Soup

Recipe of the Week: Leafy Greens and Coconut Milk Soup

Recover from the holidays with this clean, invigorating soup

Recipe of the Week is contributed by Seattle-based award-winning cookbook author, urban farmer and Seattle magazine contributor Amy Pennington. The new year is a great time to recover from holiday indulgences. Personally, I’m so over food and drinks just now. Instead, I’m craving clean eating foods that I know will work through my system quickly and…

Road Trip: Concrete and East Skagit County

Road Trip: Concrete and East Skagit County

Enjoy a scenic drive and stay out in eagle country

View the eagles during the Skagit Eagle Festival; snap a pic and enter it by January 15 in the Skagit River Bald Eagle Center’s 20th anniversary photo contest. Go win it!

Houzz Tour: Log Cabin on Puget Sound Has More Room to Spare

Houzz Tour: Log Cabin on Puget Sound Has More Room to Spare

This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. This log cabin on Washington’s Camano Island, with stunning views of Utsalady Bay, was built in the 1940s and has been in the same family ever since. When the current owners (he’s the grandson of the original owner and builder) found themselves growing short on space, they called on…

Meet Greenery, Pantone’s 2017 Color of the Year

Meet Greenery, Pantone’s 2017 Color of the Year

Give your home a fresh start for the new year with this fun, nature-inspired hue

This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. I’ve heard many folks grumble that 2016 has been a rough year. In addition to losing many iconic musical heroes, we are still emerging from an especially heated election season. As we turn our attention to the new year and, hopefully, look forward to a fresh start, the color-management…

Recipe of the Week: Cardamom-Carrot Latkes

Recipe of the Week: Cardamom-Carrot Latkes

These elegant, tasty and light fritters make the best Christmas morning breakfast treat

Recipe of the Week is contributed by Seattle-based award-winning cookbook author, urban farmer and Seattle magazine contributor Amy Pennington. These are my all-time favorite Christmas Morning breakfast treats. They are elegant, tasty and light enough to not spoil appetites, particularly on a day we tend to indulge. Pulling from traditional Jewish latkes, these savory pancakes…

Four Simple Ways to Give Back During the Holidays

Four Simple Ways to Give Back During the Holidays

Looking for ways to give back? There's still plenty you can do

No matter your schedule, resources or budget, there are Seattle organizations in need of your service.

Video: A Seattle Drag Queen's Visit to the Pot Shop

Video: A Seattle Drag Queen’s Visit to the Pot Shop

This article originally appeared on The Fresh Toast.  Marijuana retail stores are among the most inclusive establishments you’ll visit in Seattle. If you have cash and an ID that shows you are 21 or older, you’re welcome to shop. As marijuana becomes more normalized in the Northwest, many cannabis curious consumers have questions. Mama Tits,…

Value-Based Health Plans: Healing Medicine?

Value-Based Health Plans: Healing Medicine?

Our medical costs are out of control. Some local companies are trying value-based health plans. Are they the answer?

Sabrina McKinney faced an important decision two years ago.  It was Boeing’s annual open enrollment period, when employees choose a health plan for the following year. McKinney, now in her 39th year with the company, chose something new: a “value-based” health plan. It meant a small monthly health insurance deduction from her paycheck and access…

Recipe of the Week: Fennel-Beet Borscht

Recipe of the Week: Fennel-Beet Borscht

We tend to overindulge during the winter holidays. Keep up your energy and spare yourself holiday pounds by opting for healthy home-cooked meals when possible, like this light, but filling soup

Warm up with a sweet, savory bowl of borscht

Road Trip: Sandpoint, Idaho

Road Trip: Sandpoint, Idaho

It’s the definitive Pacific Northwest winter wonderland

Schweitzer Mountain, whose $5 million, 9,000 square foot lodge debuts in December

Holiday Party Prep: Ready Your Supplies

Holiday Party Prep: Ready Your Supplies

This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. Why wait until the day before your party to find out you’re short on coffee mugs and the silver is tarnished? Get a jump on things by sorting out your entertaining supplies, shopping for missing pieces and making room in your kitchen … before you come home with five…

Recipe of the Week: Kale Gougères

Recipe of the Week: Kale Gougères

These delicate, one-bite appetizers set the tone for a festive night

12 Home Hot Spots for Holiday Decorating

12 Home Hot Spots for Holiday Decorating

This article originally appeared on Houzz.com. Time to dust off those boxes in the garage and clean the spiderwebs from the garland stored in the basement. The holidays are upon us. My two youngest boys have holiday radar. As soon as October 1 hits and the air chills at night, they know it’s time for…

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