I am NOT a cook.  Not even close.  But I can bake some pretty darned fine goodness. Roger H commented on his recipe for cranberry sauce and it got me to thinking that this is a great time of year to share those harvest recipes. I’ll go find my favorite recipe for zucchini-cranberry-pumpkin bread if you’ll share your recipes for some of the harvest goodness we enjoy here on the Long Beach Peninsula at this time of year.

So… what do you have, blog readers?  A blueberry, cranberry, blackberry or marionberry bit of yum?  An exotic wild mushroom entrée or side dish, perhaps?  Oysters? Crab? Razor Clams? Tuna? Halibut? Salmon? How about some bit of magic for tackling those gorgeous artichokes in the back yard, or your favorite Washington Apple Pie recipe?

Post your recipes as comments or, better still, email them to me at webmaster@washingtonsbestkeptsecret.com, (along with a photo of the final product would be wonderful) and I’ll post them in blogspace.

But first, I’m going to try cranberry-pecan yogurt for breakfast. :-)

I am completely, utterly entertained by my dogs.  This morning, we washed the Dane and then pulled all her bedding out of my office to wash it, too.  She was apoplectic.  Mind you, it wasn’t the bath that upset her.  It was having only her Kuranda bed and none of it’s bedding.  It was like watching a live performance of “The 3 Little Bears”. She moved from her bed to the other dog’s, from carpet to carpet, and simply could NOT get comfortable.  Oh, the drama of it all!

How to amuse your (not so bright) dog.

Our Dane, bless her absolutely sweet self, isn’t the brightest dog on the planet.  Our shepherd mix spoiled us by being brilliant.  So when my pal sent me this disgustingly adorable pug-licking-your-monitor-from-the-inside file [1.6 MB fla], my monitor got licked from the outside, too.