Category: Food
I made meat filled bread for meat loving Lucian. It’s like a focaccia but with lattice top kinda like a pie. I’m not sure what it is, but it’s what I felt like making!
I’m thinking that I’d like go further down this bread making adventure, but haven’t decided which way. I would love to make some sweet pastry treats, but haven’t had the guts to sacrifice 8 eggs and 2 sticks of butter for the sake of experiment…
Ever since the day my sister and I bought pretty jar full of lovely french sea salt in discounted gourmet food section at TJ Maxx to use as a bath soak (price was comparable to bath salts, and cooking salt doesn’t have crap like artificial color and scent in them) and decided to have a taste before pouring it in to the tub — I’ve been a fancy salt enthusiast. And that was in NH, so…10 years ago? I’m not particularly a good cook but I absolutely believe that good salt makes a huge difference. We don’t even ever buy iodized salt because it makes everything taste bad. For things where “ocean” flavor of the salt doesn’t count for much — like salting pasta water — I use kosher salt. …So when our friends shared with us sampling of very very fancy sea salt, it totally made my day!
This one is raspberry rosemary dessert salt. I think I’d love to bake some on shortbread cookies! How beautiful is this pink color?? [The cute vintage spoon thrifted for $0.10!]
And this one is some sort of peppery herb salt.
And this one is pink salt with seaweed in it.
And this one is “finishing” salt. The crystals are pyramid shaped flakes!
And this one is white truffle salt! Yum yum!!!
So pretty, it makes me happy just looking at them!
It’s a beautiful summery Saturday and we decided to go berry picking! To be honest, I wasn’t entirely sure which ones were in season at this time in Portland (strawberries were 2 weeks late in early summer) but we need no excuse to drive around the beautiful Sauvie Island so off we went. At the farm, we found blueberries!
Sauvie Island — it’s so peaceful here.
I didn’t take any pictures, but we also picked some heirloom tomatoes for $0.99 per pound! How cheap is that? Especially considering it takes almost no effort picking enough for the week.
I’ve always wanted to bake bread. In my early teens, my mom’s friend brought us delicious bread she had baked and I thought — how romantic! Years later, armed with a book and packets of yeast, I finally decided to give it a try. I’m starting with pizza because I’ve also wanted to make pizza, it looked easiest for my first attempt and I thought immi would really enjoy making it with me.
As it turns out, it was totally easy! Pretty good pizza too, though it’s not that I’m trying to compete with Portland’s millions of fantastic woodfired pizza joints, it was fun to make with immi and she loved it because it only has on it what she likes.
I made the left over dough into cinnamon caramel treats!
Since we spent the Saturday adventuring to Astoria, we decided to pick up some fresh fruits and veggies at the Tigard Farmers market which happens on Sundays. And there was a very nice lady there who was giving away FREE (no agenda, no advertisement, not even a tip jar, only to make people happy!) corn on the cob. And it wasn’t just free, it was amazingly delicious! Life in Portland has been amusingly full of random encounters and happenings — it’s definitely one of many things we love about living here.
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