Frequenters of the Rogue Valley Growers and Crafters Market are no doubt familiar with Louis Jeandin’s wild mushrooms. The transplanted Frenchman forages far and wide for porcini, lobster, cauliflower, chanterelle, black trumpet, hedgehog and other examples of native fungi. Because he dries whatever he doesn’t sell fresh, Jeandin’s business is called Mushrooms All Year, the [...]
The popularity of low-carb diets makes eating less wheat hardly a new concept. But for those of us not already adhering to the low-carb doctrine, a historic spike in wheat prices may force some re-evaluation of our diets. Today’s A la Carte section offered several suggestions for passing up the ubiquitous sandwich bread, but I [...]
I wanted to make a lighter version of Easter dinner this year — spring lasagna with wild mushrooms and asparagus in a bechamel sauce, to be exact. But despite my best efforts at avoiding it, I was roped into cooking a ham. Not that I have anything against ham. It’s just that for ham to [...]
Whether it was over-medium eggs and toast or my mom’s custardy Dutch babies, big breakfasts always kicked off the weekend when I was growing up. I knew the day was going to be really special, though, when homemade muffins were part of the spread, usually with cheesy scrambled eggs. Still warm from the oven, their [...]
You might be living in a cave if you don’t know that Rogue Creamery of Central Point has been raking in awards and honors for its cheeses over the past five years or so. Apart from the Mail Tribune, numerous publications have followed the story of this hometown institution that became international phenomenon after its [...]
Local cooking classes have become so numerous that we’re hard-pressed to preview even a fraction of them in the newspaper’s weekly A la Carte section. Between the well-established Allyson’s Kitchen, Ashland Food Co-op, The Willows Cooking School and others, there’s bound to be a class for any skill level or any taste almost any week [...]
Artisan cheese is the centerpiece of tonight’s banquet kicking off the fourth annual Oregon Cheese Festival. Hurry to claim the last few tickets for the 7 p.m. event at Ashland Springs Hotel. For $70, guests will partake in a multi-course dinner, showcasing local ingredients. Paired with a local wine, each course will spotlight a cheese [...]
In response to Monday’s blog, several readers asked, “Why can’t we have a Saturday growers market?” Well, hold onto your hats, the growers and their site committee already were pondering that very question. It’s a common suggestion circulating around the market stalls, says manager Mary Ellen DeLuca. But the market’s 21-year history has shown that [...]
Long a Southern staple, greens have gone mainstream in the rest of country, a testament to Americans’ elevated consciousness of healthy foods and the broadening of our palates. Growers like the Fry family of Talent attest that greens are twice as popular nowadays than they were when local, organic farming came on the scene about [...]
Always one to belly-ache about the switch to daylight-savings time, I’m taking comfort in a truly worthy reason to get up a little earlier this week. The new season of the Rogue Valley Growers and Crafters Market comes to Ashland tomorrow and to Medford on Thursday. Arriving early, when the market opens at 8:30 a.m., [...]
