If you can put scrambled eggs on nachos, you better believe you can put them on flatbread.
The former is a fun brunch idea from Wednesday’s food section and sel...
The observation that outdoor entertaining is best kept to hours before noon will only become more relevant in the coming weeks.
Temperatures over 100 forec...
If you really love ribs, chances are you’re a purist.
Smoking, as this week’s food section
column confirmed, is the gold standard. But there’s more than one...
The advent of summer produce inspires all manner of dishes, not least among them, soup.
Chilled soups, of course, are classic mealtime solutions when the mercu...
A few fresh takes on summer salads fill this week’s food section.
To writer Jim Flint’s recipes for broccoli salad, Mexican pasta salad and melon cucumber sala...
Strawberries seemingly can go from perfectly ripe to overripe in less than a day.
That’s why I check on a cache of berries every few hours, which isn’t hard wh...
Another week or so of locally grown strawberries should be in the forecast.
That’s according to Amber Fry, who manages Fry Family Farm Store in Medford. The be...
They go together like peanut butter and jelly.
The marriage of fresh strawberries and rhubarb, however, is far more fleeting than classic companionship sugge...
Coconut is the third ingredient in a tropical trifecta that inspired my latest food section column.
The grated flesh, the rich milk and even coconut extract tie...
Pineapple brightened this week’s food section.
The peak-season fruit that inspired some bright recipes more often is consumed in my household as a snack or meal...
Little green nubs on my strawberry vines and blueberry bushes harbor hopes for a bountiful summer. Temperatures still so springlike, though, keep berry harvests...
Planting my family’s summer garden Sunday sacrificed several heads of lettuce.
Supported by late-spring rain and cool temperatures, I had babied these greens al...
I’ve been relishing California’s avocado season. This springtime window offers reasonable assurance that avocados are buttery and smooth without any stringy fle...
At least one quintessential recipe was omitted from this week’s food section spread about Ukrainian classics.
Cabbage rolls are considered pure comfort food acr...
Blueberry muffins caused me to wax nostalgic for a recent food section column. But carrot corncakes coerced me into the kitchen.
Savory baked goods, after all, ...
My recent column about muffins vouched for oil over butter.
But where my inexpert attempts at baking are concerned, butter often has been the saving grace. Butt...
Homemade muffins summon maternal memories.
Weekend mornings of my childhood seemed extra special when Mom piled a bowl high with freshly baked blueberry muffins...
My older son, in his own words, loves “little birds.”
That’s how we graduated from roasting smallish broiler chickens to a Cornish game hen for each diner to a ...
Pink shrimp season is practically reason unto itself to plan a trip to the Oregon Coast. Plus, I’m down to my last can of tuna.
What’s the big emergency? My fam...
Oregon’s shrimp season is picking up speed. But until I can get to the coast for the freshest catch, I make do with other species available frozen at mainstream...
