My cooking recently received some kudos at potlucks.
The biggest crowd pleaser was a key lime bar I adapted from a 2020 blog post and also recommended in a rece...
Pineapple as a light but savory chilled soup, featured in this blog’s previous post, extends the fruit’s appeal.
I even added pineapple to a Thai-style curry wi...
Consuming more fresh fruits and vegetables is easy when cooks “chill out.”
Chilled soups made from melons, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and more summe...
“Is there such a thing as, like, cold potato soup?”
Enthusiasm for food flagging amid a heat wave, my partner assumed he was grasping at straws. Little did he k...
An outing to pick blueberries intersected perfectly with my family’s recent Rogue River float to fete a friend’s birthday.
A handheld dessert to share on the ri...
After reaffirming a love of good-quality shrimp in this blog’s previous post, I may next have to acknowledge a budding tolerance for red bell peppers.
While rig...
I forgot how much I like shrimp.
The shellfish that I used to gobble up as a child on Oregon’s South Coast has suffered — along with so many other foodstuffs — ...
A healthier fish sandwich that skips the breading and frying was the hook for this blog’s previous post.
But we all know that a good beer batter is worth the oc...
Staking a claim in community supported agriculture expresses optimism.
That’s perhaps never been truer than this year, when the region’s farmers face drought, s...
My family, like plenty of others around the region, beat the heat on a weekend camping trip at the coast.
While we got our share of fog, wind and cooling temper...
For some people it’s burgers and dogs. For others, it’s Southern-style barbecue or New England clambakes.
For me, shrimp signify summer. I’m not talking about a...
I have my kids’ school lunch program to thank for a surplus of baby carrots.
They’re handy to have around, but four bags of baby carrots challenges us to eat th...
When you need fresh inspiration for plant-based dishes, think globally.
Latin cuisine furnished the spice palette for the previous post to this blog, featuring ...
Beans and greens are a theme in my most recent food section column.
For a six-day rafting trip that entailed camping and eating on the banks of the John Day Riv...
“Too early in the summer to be sick of beans.”
The “Brokeback Mountain” line leapt to mind as I scanned a menu for six days of rafting on the John Day River. Al...
Heedless of who might be watching, I did a little happy dance in the meat section of Sherm’s Food 4 Less.
Such joy was sparked by sign advertising the annual 4-...
More than sunshine, in my mind, strawberries signify the start of summer.
I’m in complete sympathy with food writer Daniel Neman about celebrating strawberries ...
Escaping the Rogue Valley’s heat wave last week, I returned home from a rafting trip to a garden gone wild.
Lettuce, pepper, eggplant and tomato starts had all ...
Outdoor gatherings and single-serve food items were the rule of thumb for my older son’s birthday last month.
How things have changed in that time: from cupc...
As temperatures cool this week, a taste of sunshine can be had from supermarkets stocking fresh pineapple.
The tropical fruit is enjoying its peak season, on wh...
