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CITY BAKER’S GUIDE TO COUNTRY LIVING | Book Review

City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller **ARC provided by the publisher for review** 4 stars! Save your fork, there’s pie! Louise Miller’s City Baker’s Guide satisfies like the best apple pie – sweet and a little spicy, but not cloying. It’s about creating family where you find it and finding your place in the world. Oh,…

July 30, 2016

Beverages Events Wine

Feast Portland 2016: 3 New Events Just Added!

The countdown to Feast Portland 2016 is on! If you lagged on getting tickets this year, or can't get away on Thursday or Friday, you're in luck. Three new events were just added on Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18. Tickets are available at www.feastportland.com. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: Cocktail Crawl: Drink Like a Pro Join Bon…

July 29, 2016

Baking Dessert Recipes

Zucchini Cake with Ginger & Hazelnuts

I'm on a bit of a zucchini kick. For a vegetable that doesn't offer a whole heck of a lot of flavor on it's own, it's turning up on our table a lot these days. There was that simple zucchini salad last week, zucchini green chile fritters for dinner last night, and then this zucchini cake. NYTFood posted a…

July 26, 2016

Book Reviews Cooking Recipes Salads Side Dishes

The Easiest Zucchini Salad You Will Ever Make

Simplicity is a hallmark of Japanese home cooking. Sometimes, it's simplicity to the point where you actually have to ask yourself, how does this require a recipe? Often, it doesn't. Most of my grandma's "recipes" were like that. Take the scribbled list of ingredients and figure it out. This list is adapted from a recipe…

July 21, 2016

Book Reviews Restaurants Travel

Around the Fire Dinner at the Carlile Room

Most of the time when you pick up a cookbook, you have no way of knowing how much you're gonna get out of it. Gorgeous photos, sure, but as you look through, how many of these recipes will you really make? So when you have an opportunity to have a pro put together a dinner…

July 20, 2016

Book Reviews Cooking

PURE FOOD by Kurt Beecher Dammeier |Book Review

Pure Food: A Chef’s Handbook for Eating Clean, with Healthy, Delicious Recipes by Kurt Beecher Dammeier     -- 3 and 1/2 stars **ARC provided by the publisher for review** Effort to get Americans cooking and eating clean gets a bump this week with the release of Kurt Beecher Dammeier’s latest cookbook, Pure Food. The…

July 6, 2016

Dessert Recipes

Damn, That’s Good: Simply Recipes’ Berry Cobbler

For years, I've stuck with the same cobbler recipe from America's Test Kitchen. It's basically like having to make buttermilk biscuits in addition to cutting up the fruit and letting it macerate. And while that doesn't seem like a huge amount of work, it's not like I've made that cobbler every summer. Berries are super abundant…

June 27, 2016

Beverages Recipes

The Cocorano – Coconut Gin Fizz with Dry Sparkling Serrano Pepper

Linger in Denver, Colorado knows how to do brunch. The food is always fantastic, but maybe more importantly they've got a small, but solid selection of brunch drinks. The coconut gin fizz is the kind of brunch cocktail you could lose a Sunday to, so good you can't stop throwing them back. I'm not usually a big…

June 24, 2016

Cooking Main Course Pasta Recipes

Summer Pasta Solution #1 – Penne with Zucchini, Ricotta & Chickpeas

Summer is officially here! And along with the beach parties, cookouts and s'mores, it's time to complain about zucchini! Get ready, overzealous gardeners every where are about to start leaving crazy amounts of zucchini on your doorstep. I've never been lucky enough to live next door to someone whose zucchini crop gets out of control every…

June 20, 2016

Dessert Recipes

Peach Melba Ice Cream – the Easy Way

I think of Peach Melba as an old school dessert. It's true, the real peach melba dates back to the 1890s, but for me, it dates back to the 1980s when that peach-raspberry combo was my mom's fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt of choice. This week, it's the dessert of choice and the best part is, you can…

June 17, 2016