The following is a continuation of menu food porn from my recent Veggie Grill weekend. This post hereby includes upcoming Veggie Grill menu items of the ‘fork and knife’ variety (brief pondering: Do you call it ‘knife and fork?’ Or is that phrasing simply more carnivorous?), a morning visit to the Hollywood Farmers Market, strolling the [...]
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Tempeh & Strawberries
Not together. Not this time. One day, I’ll make the strawberry jalapeño sauce I’ve been simmering in my head for the past few years. Let’s call it July and grill some tempeh. Rewind to my Portland farmers market stroll this past Saturday morning, and I was getting my farmar on. This new stand, Cascade Naturals, will be [...]
The Return of the FarMar: Rapini for All
For the love of raab! and rapini! Does this make you want a bowl of fresh chard, or what? Come springtime, I embrace my inner bunny rabbit and count the days till early spring raab & rapini at the Portland Farmers Market. The return of the market this past Saturday featured row after row of vendors, [...]
Corn Chowder & The Epic Vegan MoFo Survey, with photos
First up, I would say that 75% of what I’ve eaten in the past two days has been this Corn Chowder from Vegan with a Vengeance. It’s sweet, it’s spicy, it’s a pleasant color, offers the surprise bite of rosemary (and bonus roasted garlic from my fridge), and was made with local ingredients. Sorta funny story, while at [...]
A Brunch in the Life: Tempeh Benedict with Butternut Hollandaise
It’s not very often that I find myself making brunch anymore. It’s a little sad, but I’m usually heading here or there and grabbing coffee on the way, or meeting friends for brunch at Tube or Hungry Tiger Too, knowing my routine. This weekend, however, was practically a countdown to when I could break out [...]
photo essay: potluck weekend
Why, I had quite a pepper, courgette, culinary productive & smiling vegan-filled weekend. I’m allowing this stateside use of courgette, since I assembled a Gordon Ramsay recipe using said squashes on Saturday. It’s a shame that I don’t have photos of my personal, colorful (finally!!) Saturday Farmers Market haul, or of the actual potlucks and [...]
World’s Cutest Eggplants become Persian Eggplant Stew
Yeah, most of these striped little nightshade dream boats were smaller than my fingers. This was a multi-step roasted stew. I loosely used the recipe in Veganomicon as a guide. When doesn’t that happen? First, I trimmed the tops off the unpeeled, mini eggplant wonders and sliced them in half, length-wise. This was roasted in [...]
Khao Soi Yellow Curry Noodles with Tofu
Khao Soi Yellow Curry Noodles with Tofu and assorted vegetables Adapted from the Thai-Burmese style recipe on Veggie Belly and various others, based on my available ingredients and whim. Inspired by the notion of cauliflower + curry, a field trip in deep SE Portland to the Lents International Farmers Market for produce, great pour over-style Ethiopian [...]
hail something.
Strawberry Season Beckons! Pint of organic strawberries from Groundwork Organics at the Shemanski Park Farmers Market. aka the Wednesday, Downtown FarMar. I had never realized those SW Park Blocks had a name. Anyway, I brought these back to work and actually shared them - that’s how sweet they were. They wanted me to share the [...]
oh, rejoice! The Portland Farmers Market is back!
It was undeniably the place to be in Portland this past weekend. and thanks to the press releases (who doesn’t read press releases about their local farmers markets?), I knew it was going to be bigger & better than ever – doubling in size in the PSU Park Blocks. I was literally sitting at my [...]
