No FOMO! Here’s the Best of Feast Portland 2017

Feast Portland 2017 featured 134 chefs, 31 wineries, 15 breweries, 11 artisans, and 12 distilleries, that delivered the delicious to nearly 18,000 attendees. Over the course of 4 days, I caught up with old friends and ate my way through the amazing Bon Appetit Hot 10 dinner, the Grand Tastings, Smoked and Sunday's Brunch Village.…

ByMichelleSeptember 25, 20170Comments

Recipes

Six Delicious Summer Dishes from Josh McFadden’s Six Seasons

Israeli-spiced tomatoes with yogurt and chickpeas from Joshua McFadden's Six Seasons cookbook. I first cooked from Six Seasons, Josh McFadden's vegetable-centric cookbook, before it came out in May. Spring took its time getting here in the Pacific Northwest and I only had a chance to cook a few recipes before summer came on full force. I'm…

ByMichelleAugust 29, 20170Comments

Recipes Salads

Grilled Radicchio and Corn Salad

I've made a good number of salads this summer, some simple, some complex. This grilled radicchio and corn number falls somewhere in the middle and it might be my favorite one so far. It features a roasted cherry tomato vinaigrette and creamy fresh mozzarella along with the grilled veg. The recipe is adapted from Around…

ByMichelleAugust 24, 20170Comments

Book Reviews

Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden | Review

Cucumber, Celery and Apricots with Pistachios from Josh McFadden's Six Seasons. **ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review** 2017 seems poised to deliver a bumper crop of vegetable cookbooks. Josh McFadden, chef of Portland's Ava Gene's, rolled out Six Seasons in May; Chef Jenn Louis' Book of Greens and Jeremy Fox's On Vegetables both came…

ByMichelleJune 22, 20170Comments

Events

Save the Date! Feast Portland 2017 Schedule Goes Live June 1

Feast Portland's 2017 schedule goes live one week from today on June 1 at 9 a.m. PT. What we know so far is the event runs September 14-17 and Feast's Main Events -- Sandwich Invitational, Night Market, Smoked!, the Grand Tasting and Brunch Village -- will return. The event will also feature more intimate gatherings, including…

ByMichelleMay 25, 20170Comments

Book Reviews Recipes

Kale Malfatti with Brown Butter & Pumpkin

Kale Malfatti with Brown Butter and Pumpkin from Chef Jenn Louis' next cookbook, Book of Greens. The Book of Greens from Portland Chef Jenn Louis comes out in April, but I’m not going to be able to wait that long to talk about the kale malfatti with brown butter and pumpkin.By then, we’ll be at the very…

ByMichelleJanuary 10, 20170Comments

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…

ByMichelleJuly 20, 20160Comments

Restaurants Travel

Oh Tasty n Sons, How I Love Thee…

This weekend, we headed down to Portland to check out the Portland Bazaar that DesignSponge organized with a bunch of different local vendors from the PDX area. I'd hoped to get a little Xmas shopping done, but saw more things that would have been for me, like these excellent iPhone cases from Grove. So I held back. Before we hit the Bazaar, we went for brunch at Tasty n Sons.

ByMichelleDecember 12, 20110Comments