Easy and Tasty Chicken Stock
Making chicken stock isn't difficult. I watched Martha Stewart demonstrate it years ago, except she used two whole chickens and then tossed them! But if Martha can do it, so can you. You don't need to...
View ArticleGolden Gazpacho
One of summer's delicious and juicy treats is fresh heirloom tomatoes. They come in so many varieties, each with a unique flavor that adds its note to the chorus of tomatoes. There are purple...
View ArticleOregon Cioppino
A good fisherman never wastes his catch. So what do you do when you go jetty fishing and end up with a kelp greenling? (A boney but tasty fish) You make an Oregon version of San Francisco's famous...
View ArticleCream of Leek and Potato Soup
On cold and wet days, nothing warms you up like a bowl of creamy leak and potato soup. Plus, it's hearty enough to eat as a dinner with a small salad to go along with it. Just make sure you have some...
View ArticleSalmon and shrimp dumpling soup with chayote
Now that Chinese dumplings and wontons have become so mainstream America, it's ripe for a regional hijacking as well. Chinese dumplings are traditionally stuffed with chicken and chives, pork and...
View ArticleChilled Cream of Corn and Crab Soup with Oregon White Truffle Oil
Vic and I had the pleasure of trekking through a cool, damp grove of young Douglas firs in Yamhill County with Jack a few years ago and returned home with a nice bounty of white truffles and even a...
View ArticleSoups for the cold, flu, or what ails you
The flu. Cold. Sniffles. Crud. Whatever you call it, the evil that is aching muscles, stuffy sinus, scratchy throat, pounding headache, malaise, and coughing that seems to be going around is taking its...
View ArticleAn easy and tasy smoked salmon chowder
This wonderful and rich smoked salmon chowder will take you less than 30 minutes to make and is a great dish for a cool wet night.
View ArticleChase off the chills with Chicken, Tortilla and Roasted Chiles Soup
One of the things I miss most about Texas is Tex-Mex food and also our summertime sojourns to Colorado and trips through New Mexico that would expose me to the piquant flavors of the desert Southwest....
View ArticleThai seafood soup with Northwestern twist brings taste of tropics in winter
On a rain and blustery night last week, I decided to take a dish from my childhood memories in Bangkok, Tom Yum Kung, a pungent soup with shrimp and mushrooms swimming in lime-flavored broth, and give...
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