The weekends have been treating me well: the dawn of the Spring farmers markets and seemingly endless varieties of raab and rapini, the ever-more frequent dry days, a growing trend of old fashioned cocktail bars in Portland, new cookbooks and creative supper dates with a special someone. I’ve been making relaxed, but focused meals from [...]
April 16, 2012
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The Sweet: White Chocolate Chip & Orange Biscotti Recipe modified from Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar. White Chocolate Chips from Pangea’s VeganSweets line, via Sidecar in Seattle. The Savoury: Roasted Chickpeas with tamari, nutritional yeast, olive oil, cayenne, lemon juice, cumin and smoked paprika. The Savoury & Colorful: Cornmeal Crusted Tofu with maple [...]
December 13, 2010
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Esme sauce: know it, love it (just like esme)! Cabernet after a highly stressful day & my cluttered table: same goes for you. This sauce just hits the spot – even more so with last night’s addition of chopped sorrel and baby spinach. from the past couple weeks… A recent lunch & dinner for days: Tomato, Roasted Garlic [...]
October 14, 2010
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Just kidding, I only like the fruits of your labor. The fruits of eight months of Portland drizzle. Rathermore (that’s right), your glorious fresh fruits and vegetables. Come on, weirdo summer, let’s get through the heat wave and onwards to heirloom tomatoes and spin the color wheel of bell peppers, eggplant and cauliflower! Here are [...]
July 22, 2010
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Roasted Blue Potatoes, Golden Beets and a single Russet, with coarse sea salt, olive oil and pepper. I’ll take golden beets over red any day, any place, any time zone, as long as there’s a working oven. Huckleberry’s Bistro style Tofu Scramble with Italian kale, green cabbage, kalamata olives, yellow bell pepper, creminis, lemon juice, [...]
January 7, 2010
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There are two vegan cookie events taking place on Saturday in Portland. What is the world coming to? Cookies. Vegan Cookies. And Vegan Mania. The Apron Activists are hosting the Portland Holiday Baketacular at 2pm at the Bye & Bye on NE Alberta. Donate your best baked goods or come buy some in support of Lighthouse [...]
December 9, 2009
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Vegan thanksgiving dinners are up there in my ‘proudest culinary moments’ collection, along with every time I remember to wash my hands after chopping incredibly hot peppers. As a vegetarian for years and as a new vegan, holiday celebrations tested my patience, as usual, and my attempt at culinary skills. Potluckin’ Thanksgiving is a day you [...]
November 25, 2009
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Behold, Irish Whiskey Cremes I hope you can handle this oncoming sweet food porn extravaganza. I hope you like cookies. It’s time to collect the photos and memories of the past two years’ worth of recipe testing for the latest Post Punk Kitchen authors classic: Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar by Isa Chandra Moskowtiz [...]
November 10, 2009
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