Cool off with a Watermelon Cocktail on National Watermelon Day

It's National Watermelon Day and we're in the midst of a heatwave. Other than a cold slice of watermelon, the thing I'll be looking forward to at the end of the day is a watermelon cocktail. This riff on the Americano combines Campari, sweet vermouth, bottled watermelon juice and Dry Sparkling Watermelon. Proportions are dialed back…

ByMichelleAugust 3, 20170Comments

Pizza Recipes

Make this Tonight: Zucchini Pizza with Feta and Garlic

We're deep in the heart of the summer and zucchini is getting cheaper every week. We're talking 99 cents a pound cheap. And if you've got a neighbor growing zucchini, it might just be free. This zucchini pizza with feta and garlic was inspired by Yotam Ottolenghi's latest Guardian column in which he celebrates his love for…

ByMichelleAugust 1, 20170Comments

Recipes Salads

Grilled Panzanella Salad a la Tom Douglas

On a recent episode of the Seattle Kitchen podcast, Chefs Tom Douglas and Bridget Charters were talking summer grilling tips and Tom mentioned panzanella salad with grilled flank steak as a perfect one dish meal. Everything about it sounded delicious -- greens, mozzarella, asparagus, basil vinaigrette. It was all the suggestion I needed. We ate a…

ByMichelleMay 31, 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

Cooking Recipes Side Dishes

Hatch Chile Time: Cheesy Green Chile Polenta

We're right in the sweet spot of chile season. We're a couple of weeks in on Hatch chile roasting; Anaheims, poblanos, jalapenos and serranos are plentiful at the farmers market, and we're eating chile every way possible. It's funny though, spicy food isn't really part of Seattle's DNA, and yet all the supermarkets only got…

ByMichelleAugust 25, 20160Comments

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…

ByMichelleJuly 21, 20160Comments

Baking Cooking Pizza Recipes

Now It Feels Like Summer: Fig, Pancetta & Haloumi Pizza

Now it feels like summer. We've had a run of crazy beautiful, sunny warm days. It's light until almost 10 p.m. here. All you wanna do is sit outside, fire up the grill and sip a glass of white wine. This fig, pancetta, haloumi pizza/flatbread is exactly the nibble you need to go along with. Now…

ByMichelleJune 26, 20150Comments

Beverages Cooking Recipes

Working for the Weekend: Gingery Peach Bellinis

Something about a bellini feels infinitely more luxurious than your usual mimosa. You can get pretty decent freshly squeezed orange juice almost year round, which makes a mimosa standard. But the bellini is something special, something summer, something more than, especially with your own peach syrup. After this, you’ll never want a can of peach nectar again.

ByMichelleAugust 26, 20140Comments

Cooking Main Course Recipes

Hatch Chile Season: Zucchini Fritters w/ Roasted Green Chile

The gas burners are just flaming on under tumbling piles of green chiles and already I’m in overdrive. Every year as chile season rolls around, it’s a new challenge. What can I put green chile in this year? My first answer this year: Zucchini Green Chile Fritters. If you’ve got a garden, or a neighbor with…

ByMichelleAugust 4, 20140Comments

Cooking Pizza Recipes

FridayNightSlice: The Neil Diamond (Cherry, Baby)

Today's Friday Night Slice was inspired by a pie posted by @baconluv, an Instagram friend who lives down in Portland. A few weeks ago she posted a killer looking cherry pizza from a place called Lucca. I filed it away in my brain and last night, with a handful of cherries chilling out in my refrigerator, it was finally time to have a go at a pizza pie with cherries. This one I'm calling the Neil Diamond (Cherry, Baby). In retrospect, looking at the pictures, maybe I should have called it Purple Rain.

ByMichelleJuly 18, 20140Comments