Lately

Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Flowers

Yo dawg I heard you like flowers So I made a beautiful bowl of egg flower soup with rich homemade chicken stock, vermilion-yolked backyard eggs, fresh arugula and garlic chives from the garden, and some sweet frozen corn kernels, and then since I heard you …

Taco Rice

Okinawan taco rice for #tacotuesday! Mine has some spicy queso on it, but plain old cheddar for the milder tummies in my house. #dinnertonight #yoshoku #wwii #japanesefood #instafood #tacos #rice #queso #weeknightdinner #okinawa #food52 #bareaders #f52grams #hashtagstakemeaway A post shared by Heather Arndt Anderson (@heatherarndtanderson) …

Pass the Macrame

No one’s been eating the case of oatmeal that I bought from @bobsredmill and there’s a backlog of yogurt in the fridge, so I did the logical thing that any child of the 1970s would do: I made granola. This is thick oats toasted for about 90 minutes with coconut, sunflower and black sesame seeds, flax meal, a little hazelnut oil, and sweetened with honey, brown sugar, and @portlandsyrups vanilla-rooibos syrup. When it was nice and toasty-brown I mixed in chopped dates, dried pineapple, and goji berries. We’ll be lousy with breakfast parfaits. Lousy, I tell you! #granola #hippiechow #passthemacrame #passthegodseyes #paintedrocks #bellbottoms . . . . . . #nutfree #oats #seeds #coconut #dates #gojiberries #wolfberries #superfood #lycium #f52grams #thekitchn #instafood #foodandwine #makestuff #kitchen #baking #almostvegan

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Best School Lunch Ever

Top five favorite school hot lunches, in no particular order: Garfield-style lasagna, square pan pizza (squishy crust), chickenwiches, PPS-style dirty water dogs, and chicken a là king. The last of these is a dish that originated on the East Coast in the 1880s, with various …

Yours in Booze

I chatted about Portland’s boozy past in the Mercury.

Charcuterie for Her

Every Day is a Challahday

Made dozens of challah buns today: these are stuffed with ham, Swiss/cheddar, and pickle mustard, and there's a big batch stuffed with pepper jack and homemade kimchi. #dinnertonight #ambaking #notkosher #notglutenfree #notvegan #everydayisachallahday #culturalappropriation #sacrilicous . . . . #f52grams #bareaders #challah #foodandwine #instafood A …

Hotel Dining Makes a Comeback in Portland

I wrote a thing for Eater on the history of hotel dining in Portland, and the new joints opening in the old hotel restaurants.  

Biscuits and gravy are gettin’ above their raisin’

I think biscuits & gravy should be declared the official signature dish of Portland. Not because we invented it or do it better than anyone else, but because it’s who we really are. It may have come from the South, but it was brought here by loggers. For better or worse, the dish is starting to get fancy.

Biscuits and gravy are a symbol of Portland’s growth and changing identity as a city. And like B&G, we’re gettin’ above our raisin’. I wrote a thing about this for Roads & Kingdoms. 

Vegetarian burrito in a bowl

I eat a lot of variations on "tofu-veggie stir-fry" because it's fast, cheap, nutritious, and filling. Also, because I was a hippie in the 90s. This one is burrito-flavored, with @tillamook pepper jack and a creamy dressing of sour cream stirred together with homemade tomatillo …