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Tomato Bruschetta Three Ways

What’s fresh this week. If you visit your local farmers market you will see a rainbow of different colors of tomatoes. There are cherry tomatoes in all shapes and colors, heirloom green stripes, Italian plums and the good old red tomato. I filled my bag with an assortment of tomatoes and bought some great bread, […]

The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap

This is my first year as a participant in the 4th annual The Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap. Just around 566 food bloggers (That’s a Big Cookie Swap) from across the United States and 6 other countries participated this year. We each sent out 3 batches of our home baked cookies and received 3 batches of […]

The little Italian pasta …. Orzo with Lemon Greek Chicken Thighs

So what is orzo if you go to Wikipedia this is what they say: Orzo (from Latin hordeum, sometimes called Italian rice) is Italian and means “barley”[1], from which orzo was originally made. However, in common usage in the United States, orzo is understood to mean rice-shaped pasta, slightly smaller than a pine nut. It […]

Portland Farmers Winter Market

What is the best way to know what is fresh in Oregon this week? Just head down to the Portland Farmers Winter Market at Shemanski Park. That is what my husband and I did this past Saturday. The winter market is open every Saturday from January 5th through February 23 from 10:00 am to 2:00 […]

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