Posts Tagged ‘bread’

Bread: What Are those Ingredients on the Labels?

When it’s time to make a sandwich or toast, Americans have never had so many choices. Supermarket shelves are packed with tasty breads of seemingly endless variation. At least it seems this way in comparison to my childhood—I (Nicole, aka June #1) don’t remember sunflower seeds, hazelnuts, and poppy seeds making an appearance in our [...]

Adventures in Bread Baking

I have a confession to make and hopefully it won’t cause me to lose my relatively small fan base here at Cooking up a Story (Thanks for reading Mom). I don’t usually buy organic bread. There I said it, I’ve been so wrapped in up eating seasonally and buying locally that I forgot all about [...]

A Fair Artisan Wage: Soldiers in the Sustainable Trenches-Part 2

Part 2: Despite the disparity between available funds and the cost of organic, sustainable food, a large proportion of the community of chefs and bakers here in Portland spend a huge portion of their not so huge income for quality food. They put their dollars where their hearts and stomachs lead them, and tend to [...]

Zucchini Bread

Video from the show: Food Works Food Works provides opportunities to young people to make a difference in their communities. Ingredients: 3 eggs 1 cup oil 2 cups sugar 2 cups peeled and grated zucchini 3 tsp vanilla 2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 cup of nuts 3 cups flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt [...]

Game Hen en Cocotte with Sweet Potato Bread

Check out the related video story: The Vision: A Sustainable Restaurant Creating a restaurant from the ground up is an ambitious endeavor in itself. To base the theme of such a restaurant around locally produced food, good land stewardship, and preserving social tastes is even more grand. Stu Stein, owner of Terroir (pronounced, tεʀwaʀ, in [...]

Pear Bread

Check out the related video story: The Art of Food Photography The pictures can be tantalizing. Some even cause us to stop and stare. Join us, for a behind the scenes look at a food photographer and his team as they create sumptuous images out of fresh ingredients that seem to jump off the page.