Just about exactly a month ago I posted about an event called the Fill Your Pantry and Winter Vegetable Sagra , a gathering of farmers, r...

In making the Choucroute Garnie featured in a recent post—it's an Alsation dish featuring sauerkraut braised for hours in chicken st...

When I heard that a couple we know have an annual party on Super Bowl Sunday, I was shocked. You see, if there are any of our friends who...

It may still be sunny, but there's a chill in the air. I hear leaves crunching underfoot as children walk by the house on their way t...

Dinner at my family's table growing up was a product of the then-new and novel notion of convenience for housewives. Why spend hours ...

Spring in Oregon is a flighty thing. She can be wearing a summer dress and flip-flops one moment, then bundled up in fleece and rain boot...

For those of us who don't always have the funds to go out for dinner when we don't feel like cooking—or don't have the time ...

I grew up in a time of convenience, when to make a cake all you had to do was open a box, crack an egg and add water. It was like magic, ...

For years I'd been battling the red-stemmed, succulent-like weed with the fat, oval leaves, wondering what in the heck kind of invade...

Contributor Jim Dixon's annual olive oil garage sale is an institution among aficionados of good cooking and good eating in town. In...

Though the Hillsdale Farmers' Market will not be in session this weekend—it has begun its twice-monthly winter season schedule, in e...

I made this soup the other night, and if you looked up "comfort" in the dictionary, it wouldn't show your mom or your teddy...

"I still go to the markets because I love talking to people about food." - John Eveland, Gathering Together Farm On a quiet ...

The last thing I wanted to do was turn on the stove when the temperature hit 90 degrees for the fourth day in a row. The house was alrea...

The lunches of my youth, growing up as I did in a small town in Central Oregon, where the annual summer festival celebrated the potato an...

What is it about creamed dishes that are so comforting on chilly winter nights? They're like wrapping up in your favorite blanket wit...

I went a little crazy buying fish this past year, but my excuse is that the stores were offering such darn great prices. I mean, two whol...

We're nearing the end of Dining Month , those thirty or so days in early summer where Portlanders have an excuse to check out a new s...

Contributor Anthony Boutard of Ayers Creek Farm doesn't just love horseradish, he adores it in the same way other people get weak in ...