Feed Your Body

Good Food

If you’re like me, you want to feed your body well, you actually enjoy many healthy foods, but you struggle to eat that way consistently. Years ago I worked with a group of women to run annual plant-based cooking schools at Bend Adventist Church. Although I grew up vegetarian and I loved baking healthy breads with freshly ground whole grain flours, I wasn’t interested in changing my diet by giving up eggs or cheese or…

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About Me

Let’s see. When I was in fifth grade, I was sick with asthma and spent a lot of time laying around. That’s when my compulsion to read cookbooks started. Until I started teaching regularly eleven years ago, I read every cookbook I could get my hands on.

I’m the kind of cook who loves a challenge. When I was in the fifth or sixth grade, I made croissant dough from scratch and used it to make bear claw Danishes. I’ve made tofu from scratch. One October I bought 1000 pounds of pears for $30 with the hopes of drying most of them. That ended up being a year of a few dried pears and a lot of amazing compost. I could never figure out how to make good bread with a bread maker, but successfully baked 36 loaves of whole grain bread in a day using two Bosch Universal mixers and one standard home oven when I ran a small bread “business” out of my home kitchen. We were so desperate for Mexican food when we lived in Thailand that I found lime (the chemical) and processed dry feed corn to make masa for tortillas and tamales. And now I’m starting a food blog to go along with Grandpa’s Pasture Garden’s website….

Even my volunteering seems to connect to cooking. Years ago it was cooking schools and cookbook editing. More recently it’s been helping with Journey 2 Bethlehem in Bend, Oregon. Until COVID cancelled J2B in 2020, I spent four nights a year running a “business” in Bethlehem just down from the Inn using a homemade 3-burner rocket stove to make Chickpea-Caramelized Onion wraps for the cast and crew. Each year we’ve gone through about 50 pounds of onions and 10-20 pounds of dry garbanzos. It’s a blast, and I’m hoping I’ll get to do it again this year!

—The Midnight Gardener

Since this website is in its infancy, you won’t find me on these other platforms, yet. I’ll let you know once Grandpa’s Pasture Garden has a presence — and then we can hang out there!