Products endorsed by celebrity chefs usually don’t impress me much. These days, it seems, everyone from Emeril Lagasse to Rachael Ray has his or her own line of cookware and kitchen utensils. But I did take to heart Emeril’s recent on-air testimony to the importance of a pizza peel. You know, those long-handled boards pizzerias [...]
Showy pear blossoms aren’t the only harbingers of a Southern Oregon spring. Deep in the forests’ dark corners, morels are pushing their way toward the light. If you know where to look and don’t mind braving poison oak, you could bring home a few of these distinctive mushrooms for your next culinary masterpiece. Or buy [...]
Who says real men don’t eat quiche? My husband happens to love it, so I make an easy version every month or so. Containing largely kitchen staples, it’s the perfect on-the-fly dish and can be easily adapted to whatever ingredients are on hand. It’s also a great way to use up less-than-fresh produce, leftover meat [...]
Web enthusiasts may have noticed fewer entries last week in this blog. That’s because a stubborn cold kept me out of the office and, along with muffling my taste buds, dampened my enthusiasm for cooking. Fortunately, I had several pints of homemade soup still squirreled away in my freezer, making for easy meals nutritionally appropriate [...]
We tried our best. But words and photos in Wednesday’s A la Carte section simply couldn’t convey how delightful the cookbook club meeting actually was. Maybe it’s the personalities of the dozen or so members, most mere acquaintances before food brought them together. Maybe it was the ease with which they bestow compliments and share [...]
Tempo readers were either intrigued or completely put off by the concept of eating as a meditation, mentioned in my Friday dining review. I knew before writing it that some would entirely dismiss the notion that mindful eaters can happily consume smaller portions and find greater pleasure in their food, as many health experts recommend. [...]
Posted by Sarah LemonFriday, April 13th, 2007 I’m sure all home cooks have been with me on this one. You stumble across something relatively simple and wonder why you weren’t doing it all along. More than once over the past few months, I’ve given myself a mental tongue-lashing over pad Thai sauce. Why did I [...]
While editing one of the newspaper’s columns last week, I did a little independent investigation on behalf of our recipe devotees. Today’s piece by Corvallis writer Jan Roberts-Dominguez mentions green garlic, a bit of produce likely unfamiliar to those who don’t have home gardens like Jan. But non-gardeners should be able to find green garlic [...]
Local cheese producers have been bringing home awards just about every year for the past five years. But cheese connoisseurs around the country now are joining judges in asking “What’s with this Rogue Valley cheese?” That was the response from one expert after tasting Pholia Farm’s Elk Mountain, said David Gremmels, president and co-owner of [...]
It’s been almost a year since my husband and I moved into a new house with its custom-designed kitchen, which promised a little extra room for acquiring more utensils, appliances and other cooking supplies. But one area has proved barely adequate: the deep drawers opposite the range intended for pots and pans. With both of [...]
