Attention, Portland readers: the next PDX Food Swap will take place at Abby’s Table on June 17th, 2012, from 4-6PM. If you didn’t know, I’ve been planning & hosting the PDX Food Swap for a while now and it’s awesome. If you like to cook, craft, preserve or can – please join us! Official details and registration are up at… Read More »
I’ll be honest, I wasn’t planning on posting this recipe. (I’m not sure what my problem was, since this potato salad is really damn delicious.) It’s just that potato salad is a funny thing. It’s not a particularly sexy dish, it’s a bit kitschy and old fashioned, and it certainly doesn’t look good in photographs. But good grief, it sure… Read More »
I’m a serial snacker. No, really, it’s a problem. I have a whole drawer in my kitchen that is dedicated to chips, crackers, nuts, and other salty snacks. (Please note: I do not keep chocolate or sweets in the house and my sisters curse me for it.) If I don’t eat every couple of hours, I get grumpy. My husband… Read More »
Today, a friend told me that I’m going through a “rhubarb phase”, which she likened to my infamous “beet phase”. (If you don’t remember my beet phase, let me refresh your memory: there were the boozy beet popsicles. There was that delicious champagne & beet cocktail. Lest we forget, there was a beet and feta salad, a beet grilled cheese,… Read More »
Every Tuesday evening, I meet up with six of my closest girlfriends. We make dinner together. We drink wine, we talk, we laugh. I look forward to it every single week. We’ve been making dinner together on Tuesday nights for almost 3 years now. This week, we said goodbye to our friend Stacie. Stacie is getting married and moving to… Read More »
I might be the first person in the history of the internet to post two separate blogs on radish leaf pesto. Last year, I posted my recipe for radish leaf pesto pasta salad with asparagus. And here I am, posting another recipe with radish leaf pesto. Really, the pesto on these tartines doesn’t have to be radish leaf pesto. It… Read More »
Writing about food can feel silly and meaningless at times. There’s a of pain and suffering in this world and sometimes I wonder if I’m wasting my time writing about cupcakes and pesto. But, I know that food matters. There’s a social justice element to food that I can’t ignore. Food has the uncanny ability to bring people together, but… Read More »