Slow Food Whidbey Island welcomed the opportunity to contribute to the blog on the “4 Ways to Yummy” website for the month of November. We are always excited to find new sources of delicious, healthy, recipes. The photographs on this Blog are absolutely beautiful and the recipes are thought-provoking and healthy. The holidays are rapidly approaching so many of us are thinking about what we can cook to celebrate with our friends and families. This time of year is especially im

Over the next several months we are going to present a group of special cooks who "make a positive difference" in our community life on Whidbey Island and know their way around a kitchen too! WARM 106. fm LAURIE HARDIE Our first cook is Laurie Hardie a former Whidbey Island resident. Laurie is WARM’s Afternoon Traffic host with the philosophy of ”traffic is a lot like life, sometimes you have a speed –limit drive and sometimes you hit a slow-down or detour, but with the right

When R, Heide, and I compiled the list of veggies we would address in 4 Ways to Yummy, I wasn’t too enthusiastic about zucchini. So I set out to ensure that this vegetable had any nutritional and culinary merit. You see, I used to really like zucchini. My dad would slice it up raw and include it in salads. I had eaten it in the early 80s in ratatouille. Zucchini was pretty darn good, and I preferred it to cucumbers because it was not slimy when raw. (Now I love cucumbers.) So