Josh is a potter, open source programmer, avid food geek, former pastry chef, and serious home cook. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
In honor of BridgetownBites Salad Week and the fact that my porch thermometer reported 100F today (it's still 88F at 7pm), I thought I'd make two salads for dinner, neither requiring any heating at all, just cutting, washing, and marinating. Each also requires one obscure ingredient, but hopefully you can…
Read MoreIn late May I found out that I needed to make five dozen custom tiki cups for an event in mid-July. I've never made a tiki cup before, although I'd thought about it, so I wasn't at all set up to create any, let alone more than 50 in about…
Read MoreBrunch is a big thing around our house. We rarely go out, because we enjoy making and eating brunchy dishes at home, in our bathrobes. We love both fancier and heartier brunch fare. Given this, the current egg shortage has been hard to bear. So I've been looking for brunch…
Read MoreBrowsing the Multinomah Library's cookbook collection, I ran across the book A-Gong's Table, which was a vegan Taiwanese cookbook. This enticed me, as I'd long wanted to share Taiwanese cuisine with my sweetie, but most of the recipes I had access to were meat-heavy. So I borrowed it and paged…
Read MoreCats! Cats that are also hot beverage safe drinking mugs! What could be better than tea/coffee/chocolate and a kitty -- in one hand? I've added some new cat mugs to my store, and will be adding more in the next few days. In the meantime, meet Mungojerry, Pickles…
Read MoreI have new salt monsters in my shop! Meet Oggie, Kilroy, Champ, and Wadjet. Like my previous salt monsters, these four are there to hold your coarse salt next to the stove so that you can pinch and fling it into your cooking food, like a video chef. Or you…
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