Blackberry Semifreddo

What’s easier than ice cream, classier than a popsicle? The Italian frozen mousse known as semifreddo. Find my recipe at the Oregon Blackberry and Raspberry Commission website.

Pflaumenmus Tea Cookies

These cookies were inspired by Lebkuchen (the quintessential German Christmas cookie) but are so much faster and no less complex or deep in flavor. Makes about 7 dozen teeny cookies. Have all ingredients at room temperature and preheat oven to 375F. Ingredients: 1 cup finely …

Cottage Cheese Dumplings with Ham and Fava Puree

View this post on Instagram I had a nice, big hunk of @nueskes ham (picked up for a ✨song✨ at a @nicky.usa fire sale, leftover from Easter dinner), so I diced it up and tossed it in hot bacon fat with some cottage cheese dumplings …

Bison-Okara Meatballs

View this post on Instagram How did I turn one measly pound of Nicky Farms ground bison into fourteen large meatballs? By cutting the meat by half with okara from Ota Tofu! After they extract all the soy milk, the pressed-out soy beans form a …

Wild Boar Pörkölt with Hand-Cut Dumplings

View this post on Instagram Happy Spring Festival, friends! In honor of Year of the Pig I made a boar pörkölt (kind of like goulash) with hand-cut dumplings, fortified with Uyghur flavors. That means mixing Chinese Muslim and Eastern European ingredients — both are influenced …

Garden Borscht

With tons of extra snips of things. View this post on Instagram I am finally back in my own kitchen, and after half a week of eating nothing but dumplings, noodles, and Japanese junk food, all I want to eat is vegetables. Luckily, I had …

Black Nightshade and Bierocks

A story I wrote is in the Fall/Winter 2018 issue of Oregon Humanities magazine. I hope you enjoy!

Kimchi Golubtsy

This one made the top post on r/foodporn!   View this post on Instagram   Korean goluptsy: the mashup you never knew you needed. Grass-fed @creekstone_farms beef (dry-aged and ground by @nicky.usa) browned with garlic chives, ginger, onions and garlic, mixed with chopped kimchi and …

Fig Slatko

Slatko is an Eastern European-style (usually fruit) preserve where the fruit (or sometimes baby pine cones, like you do) are suspended in a thick syrup. My tree has produced a lot of fruit this year, so I put up some of it like this. View …

Chicken Shawarma Doner Sandwich

Seriously, this beautiful sandwich has been the highlight of my entire summer. Find the original bread recipe here. This is the best thing I’ve ever done. 🥪 🥙 🥪After braising that chicken into garlicky pulchritude, I shredded and tossed it in lemon juice and a …