Time for Portia’s first weekly feeding. Portia is the new sourdourgh starter I made here in Portland. After her feeding I was left with a cup of sourdough discard. I also have a bag of dark chocolate kisses and some other chocolates in my kitchen (leftovers from my Mother’s Day treats). I want to use…
Month: May 2020
A Real Northwestern Bread – Hazelnut and Cherry
Even though we are still living in our rented tiny condo and all my kitchen gear is in storage (including my stand mixer), it is time to get back to baking bread. Without my mixer, I am getting my hands on the dough more, so getting an even better feel for the textures I like…
Quarantine Quiche
Sometimes quarantine means making comfort food. This is especially true on a rainy quarantine day. Since moving to Portland we have discovered tater tots. Yes, there were tater tots in Delaware, and I never made them. Just another processed food. But tater tots were invented in in Oregon, and they are a big thing here,…
Chicken and Fava Bean Polo
How to turn a fail into a success… I had planned to make chicken tinga for dinner, when I realized that I had defrosted the wrong chicken, had no tomatoes, no chipotle peppers, and no corn tortillas 🤦♀️. So I explored my options knowing that I needed to use the chicken tonight. We had broccoli,…
Andrea's Garden Cooking 