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Dana Treat - Treat Yourself
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A slice of my life as a vegetarian personal chef and mom to two young boys. Check out what I am cooking, eating, and dreaming about cooking and eating.
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Spring Tartines

I’ve written a bit about Book Larder, the amazing cookbook store where I am lucky enough to work. The shop opened in October and it has been gangbusters ever since. I was hired with the idea th...

19 h ago

A Slice of My Life – Week 22

Scenes from my front yard. Quick! Guess what my favorite color is. Last week was another somewhat frantic one in our house. I worked two events at Book Larder, taught a Seasonal Feast class at home, ...

1 day ago

The Dole Summit

(There is, believe it or not, a recipe at the end of this post. Thank you all for your patience with my lack of food posts lately. Thank you for your support during this uncertain time. And thank you...

5 days ago

A Slice of My Life – Week 21

Dear Friends, Thank you for understanding why my Slice of Life post is appearing today. I aim for Sunday. This week it’s Tuesday. Dear Friends, Oh! And thank you for being patient with me as th...

22 may 12

Disappearing Dip

About 3½ years ago, my friend Jen asked if I would be interested in co-hosting yoga retreats with her at her Bainbridge Island studio. I have known Jen since seventh grade and we have been very close...

15 may 12

A Slice of My Life – Week 20

Another busy week in the Dana Treat household. So busy that my Four Year Bloggerversary passed by without me remembering. Four years! I’m giving myself a little pat on the back. Thank you to ev...

14 may 12

Walla Walla, Washington

If you have heard of the town of Walla Walla, it is probably for one of these reasons: 1) You read Tom Robbins’ Still Life with a Woodpecker in which he mentions that the Native Americans named...

11 may 12

A Slice of My Life – Week 19

This was kind of a crazy week. My husband got laid off and we found out that Spencer, who will be starting kindergarten in the fall, got waitlisted at Graham’s school. But some good things happ...

07 may 12

Last Day of Work Dinner

About a year and a half ago, Randy started a new job. He had spent 6½ years at Microsoft – a company known for their innovation, excellent benefits, fair pay, exciting opportunities, and grueli...

05 may 12

South Africa Part Two: Zulu Nyala

Do you ever realize that you have been carrying around an opinion about something without ever realizing you even have one? Maybe, for instance, hearing that an acquaintance was going on a safari and...

02 may 12

A Slice of My Life – Week 18

Graham started a new before-school activity this week. Lego club! There were about five bins full to the brim of Legos. Heaven for my little boy. I was about to pay for my parking when a man jumped o...

30 apr 12

Flan!

Show me a dessert menu and I can tell you what I would order. If there is chocolate, that is it. If the chocolate is paired with caramel, I might hunt the server down to get our order in sooner. No c...

28 apr 12

Yoga and Me

Every so often, I get an email from a reader asking me about my yoga practice. It is something I have alluded to (like when I posted photos of 40 sun salutations on my 40th birthday, or every time I ...

27 apr 12 1 person likes this

Editing is Important

Part of cooking well, like dressing well, is knowing when to edit. There is a point where the dish is close to being just right and you can either just trust that it is good, or you can keep adding t...

25 apr 12

Maple Blueberry Tea Cake

Some people think that white flour and white sugar are evil. I don’t feel that way. I’ve been making treats for years (and years and years) with both of those snowy ingredients and I feel...

25 apr 12

A Slice of My Life – Week 17

I know, I’m late with this post. I hereby promise that I will post once a day all this week. Yes, seven posts. At least three of those seven will be food. Two of those three will be treats....

23 apr 12

Sunday Night Chinese Food

My parents are both Jewish and both from New York. That means that, on a lot of Sundays, we ate Chinese food. There were different places we went, some in Seattle proper, some on the little island ...

18 apr 12

A Slice of My Life – Week 16

I did a tiny bit of work over at the Microsoft campus this week. Randy worked there for 6½ years but I only went over there a handful of times. Randy was out of town this week for a short trip, so t...

15 apr 12

Dinner or Post?

As a food blogger, I have a choice. I can make getting the shot and documenting the meal the priority, or I can make interacting with my guests and eating the meal the priority. Guess which way it ...

12 apr 12

Holly B’s Savory Brioches

When you walk into Holly B’s, the beloved bakery on the beloved island of Lopez, it can be a little overwhelming. What to choose? I’ve said this before about that amazing place, but thi...

10 apr 12

A Slice of My Life – Week 15

From last week. My first coffee back in Seattle. My drink is a Mezzo with soy milk. It’s like half Americano, half latte. Decaf! This was the big event of the week. Spencer was at preschoo...

08 apr 12

South Africa Part One: Capetown

When we bought our Safari in South Africa package at the Boyer auction over 15 months ago (story here), I knew we would not be going for just the six nights included in the safari. I didn’t th...

06 apr 12

Another (Very Brief) Hello

Thanks to a media savvy reader (thank you Cynthia!) , I was able to email some photos to my Flickr account. They took about 8 hours apiece to leave my outbox, so there aren’t many at this poin...

27 mar 12

A Brief Hello

First, an apology for no photos. As it turns out, the iPad version 1 is not compatible with Flickr. I could potentially upload photos to another site and somehow get them up on the blog, but that wou...

22 mar 12

Dishes from Marches Past

It might be that, at the moment you are reading this post, I am staring down the mouth of a lion. Or maybe I am sleeping. Or, perhaps having a cocktail. Regardless, I am not sitting in the rain in...

20 mar 12

My Never-Ending Love of a Good Salad

When Gail Simmons, she of Top Chef and Top Chef Desserts fame, was at Book Larder last week, someone in the crowd asked where she likes to eat in New York. It was at just that moment that she asked ...

16 mar 12

Heading to the Southern Hemisphere

(Bye bye rain. Oh, and while I am using parentheses, my new spring classes are up! Check them out and I really hope to see you! And another thing, the winner of the Bialetti pan is Jentry! She lo...

13 mar 12

A Slice of My Life – Week 11

Since January, Randy has been taking the boys up to the mountains skiing every Saturday. Last week I went with them. Chairlift buddy #1. Chairlift buddy #2. (Note the rain drops on his goggles. I...

12 mar 12

Tartines and a Bialetti Pan Giveaway

Up until the age of 20, one of my favorite things to eat in the world was a tuna fish sandwich. That was my go-to lunch whether eating out or at home. There was a deli in my college town that put a...

08 mar 12 1 person likes this

Something for St. Patrick’s Day

(Permit me a moment of apology for these photographs. I know they aren’t pretty. I know they don’t give a tasty dish its due. I was rushing and brown potatoes are hard to photograph. ...

05 mar 12

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