Readers of this blog likely have noticed fewer entries over the past two weeks, a pattern that stands to hold for much of June while I’m in Europe on vacation. Because at least part of the trip, a 10-day Mediterranean cruise, is food-centric, I hope to post several updates from abroad. The reason being [...]
It was my husband’s turn to cook dinner and, for once, he couldn’t have been more at ease. No fumbling around in the refrigerator for ingredients. No rifling through cookbooks in search of the magic formula for a successful meal. Dinner already was in the bag — literally. The previous evening I’d received ingredients and [...]
In temperatures so searing, the need for cooling foods knows no age limit. Sure those plastic, ice-pop molds make cute treats for the kids. But adults can appreciate them, as well. I’ve filled the molds with leftover sparkling wine or cider from Sunday brunch, topped them with a little fruit juice and plopped in a [...]
It’s been called the fish chefs love to hate. And while I’m not a chef, I must agree I’ve yet to be impressed by tilapia, with its largely tasteless white flesh and dubious pedigree. Tilapia isn’t itself a fish but actually the common name of nearly 100 species of fish that in recent times have [...]
Some of the season’s freshest, local foods are available from their source at Saturday’s Spring Farm Day near Jacksonville. Boones Farm and Siskiyou Crest Goat Dairy, at 5758 Sterling Creek Road, are open at no cost to the public from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tours of the 64-acre property’s vegetable fields, micro-creamery, milking parlor [...]
With Mother’s Day just around the corner, what could be a more fitting tribute than celebrating Mom’s labors of love in the kitchen? In collecting readers’ recipes for favorite dishes their moms used to make, I was struck by a number of recipes that weren’t just inherited from moms, but from grandmas. Beyond a [...]
Sunday’s Spring Mushroom Fair at Northwest Nature Shop in Ashland drew a number of valley residents hoping to learn enough about morels to pick a peck of their own, as well as seasoned ‘shroomers looking for an expert to identify a rare find. Yet the event largely ignored one fungus: Oregon’s black truffle. Like mushrooms, [...]
What could a New York food critic and one from Medford possibly have in common? An unlikely similarity struck me as I savored Ruth Reichl’s “Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise.” Apparently it doesn’t matter if a newspaper’s circulation is 30,000 or more than 1 million. Its readers will demand [...]
