A More Perfect Reunion Market

SE Portland is home to PFM’s Buckman Market, right off Hawthorne at 20th & Salmon. The Market disappears in the late fall, only to reunite the week of Thanksgiving – it’s inevitable, cyclical and reassuring, like geese and north this time of year. Besides the seasonal beauty and seasonal harmony of the Market’s reappearance, it’s [...]

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Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Turkey

There are two Markets remaining before Thanksgiving – Saturday’s PSU Market between 9-2 and Tuesday’s Buckman Reunion Market on SE 20th & Salmon that runs between 1-5. Both Markets are full of Thanksgiving goodness. We’ll post more on the reunion Market early next week, but this Saturday at PSU… Cranberries from Vincent and Eagle Organics. [...]

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Squash-cation

Winter Squash are easily my most favorite produce this time of year, yet my affection is tinted with a bit of jealously: Squash are better traveled than I am. They don’t have little passports, but from their native home in Meso-America, the cucurbita have moved across the world and won over local populations wherever their [...]

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The enJoys of Roasted Chicken

Article by Leslie Gilman   Around this time last year, my son and I were enjoying our weekly sojourn to the Saturday market, feet shuffling in a sea of red fallen leaves and lost in our own reverie of roasting coffee and apple pyramids, when a voice called out to me. A man with a [...]

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Mash/Mush

For all the talk about Thanksgiving turkey, everyone knows the day is all about the side dishes: Pies, cranberries, stuffing and mashed potatoes. That latter is the subject of the video below -  It’s 75 seconds and it will make you smile, so enjoy. Three Markets left before Thanksgiving – Two at PSU and the [...]

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Say Yes to Gnocchi

Article and Photo by Elizabeth Miller As a former vegetarian, I have nothing but the utmost sympathy for non-meat eaters during the holiday season. I remember what it was like to be told that, though the turkey may have been off limits to me, the gravy was just fine, only to then find out that [...]

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The Soup that Keeps On Giving

Article and Photo by Jane Pellicciotto My mother, a self-proclaimed non-cook, proudly tells me on the phone almost every Thanksgiving that she’s making my pumpkin soup—a recipe that’s been passed up rather than down. We don’t get together at holidays as often as we used to. My small nuclear family prefers thousands of miles between us [...]

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Just Dessert

Article by Maya Miranda I have always hated pumpkin pie. With its mottled orange-brown color and sludge-like texture, I have never understood why people love it so much. I remember in my youth when pumpkin pie was only served once, maybe twice per year, at cold-weather family holidays. Now it’s everywhere – pumpkin lattes, pumpkin [...]

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Seasonal Recipe: Warm Squash and Poblano Salad

Warm Squash and Poblano Salad Recipe by Kelly Myers, Chef/Instructor, The International Culinary School at The Art Institute of Portland Adapted from Diana Kennedy’s recipe for Chile Rellenos Con Calabacitas.  Chef Meyers adjusted the recipe when she discovered local poblano chiles are much hotter than Mexican poblanos! Serves 6 as a warm salad Ingredients: 2 [...]

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Pumpkin Pie Is a Vegetable

Article & Photo by Aaron Gilbreath Whoever first said “Life is uncertain, eat dessert first” has peered into my soul. Parents, teachers, nurse-practitioner friends, they often worry about our health. Are we eating enough vegetables? Drinking enough water? Did we take our multivitamin? I do all of the above, and if I want a bowl [...]

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