Hey, Sweet Pea, is that you? Why, I hardly recognized you, you look so fresh and fabulous, even downright stylish. Let’s face it, peas have come a long way since we were kids. Their humble beginnings, from the box and can, got them off to a poor start in the fashionable vegetable world. But now,…
Author: Kathryn Hilger Kingen
Award-winning food blogger, Kathryn Hilger Kingen is Salty's co-owner along with husband Gerald Robert Kingen who founded this seafood restaurant group. Seattle's Eastside magazine 425 readers voted Kathryn Food Blogger of the Year 2015 and 2014! (Read more on 425 Magazine.com). Kathryn has a degree in Nutrition from the University of Washington. Kathryn Kingen has been blogging about nutrition since the early days of Red Robin - see her first "blog" (they weren't called blogs back then) on "What's the Stuff on Roughage?" You'll want to read it for the recipe Oat Bran Muffins.
Blueberries on the Brain
Popping a few handfuls of blueberries in your mouth every day is a brilliant idea. Blueberries are brain food, they’re E=mc2 personified. Consumption of these prodigious prognosticators may even cause you to factor algorithms or start calculating the sum of the sides of an isosceles triangle. Okay maybe that’s a bit of a stretch. Although…
If You Can't Take the Heat
If you can’t take the heat then you better get out of my kitchen, because I love my peppers. I love them hot, sweet, roasted, dried, flaked, fresh, ground, stuffed, sauteed or sauced. In fact, one of the first adventurous dishes I ever made was a very bueno chile relleno (stuffed pepper). I was so proud. These…
Shedding Light on Dark Chocolate
It’s three o’clock and I am working at my computer. I hear a soft voice calling, “chocolate.” A little louder it repeats itself, “choooocolaaaaate.” No, go away I say, I’m trying to be good. “But chocolate is good,” the voice whispers musically. It proves too much to resist. I give in and find that dark…
Eat Crab For Me!
It’s really a subtle form of torture not eating crab. I love crab. There is nothing else that has the succulent fibrous texture of those sweet lumps of white. When my family moved to the Northwest from Minnesota decades ago, we went from thinking fish sticks were seafood to celebrating Christmas Eve dining on the…
Cranberries: Red Goodies in a White Box
I‘m excited because this month my white cardboard box will arrive. It’s an early Christmas present sent from my Aunt Diane. Thoughtfully each one of my siblings gets the same parcel and every year the question at hand is, “What are you going to do with yours this year?” Shake the white container and it…
Saved by Fennel!
There are certain vegetables I depend on to save me in a pinch. Because my favorite way to cook is to combine whatever I have in my refrigerator and pantry, I am vulnerable to what remains fresh. But when my cauliflower has the measles and my arugula has gone funky, who is always there to…