FuzzyChef Food & Pottery

28 Feb 2022
vegetarian, vegan, stews and soups, ukranian food

hot Ukrainian borscht

bowl of hot borscht with sour cream drizzled on top

Given what's going on in Europe right now, it seemed like time to share a Ukrainian recipe. Ukrainian, at least, courtesy of my great-grandmother the Ukrainian Jew, who emigrated to the US as a young child fleeing a Tsar-ordered Russian Cossack pogrom. Hmmm, seems familiar somehow. Of course, me being…

23 Jan 2022
pottery, making pottery, 3Dprint

a new design for hollow extruder dies

cluster of extruded shot glasses with numbers on the bottom

I like to make "shot glasses" for doing glaze tests, and to sell off as a $2 item. Given how disposable these are, though, I can't be bothered with throwing and trimming them, so I turned to my trusty extruder to just extrude a tube, cut it into short bits…

31 Dec 2021
vegetarian, non-traditional thanksgiving, seafood, new orleans

a mosquito thanksgiving

dinner setting with biscuit, jambalaya, peas, and beets

Yes, yes, I realize I'm posting this a full month after Thanksgiving ... bookmark it and save the ideas for next year, OK? This year's non-traditional Thanksgiving menu was inspired by The Mosquito Supper Club cookbook, which came out this year to broad acclaim. Having eaten Melissa Martin's Cajun cooking in…

11 Dec 2021
pottery, jewish food, shows

judaica

photo of candle holders, mezuzzot, hand washer

As a Jew from an observant family (although I'm not), I noticed that there don't seem to be any other Portland area potters making Judaica for sale. So I figured I'd fix that. Having borrowed some designs from my mother, I now have a few things on offer for fellow…

18 Nov 2021
pottery, shows, cats

SpoonLu

black cat shaped spoonrest

Meet the SpoonLu! I like to cook, and that means that I also like making pottery for cooking. While I make many bits of "chefware", among the simplest, yet the most useful are spoonrests. I started out making sluggy spoonrests. But, I wanted to make a special spoonrest as a…

14 Nov 2021
pottery, holidays, portland, fair

hannukkah craft fair at Leikam

leikam craft fair banner

Looks like I am selling my pottery in person this year! Leikam Brewing in Portland -- our town's only kosher beer brewer -- will be hosting craft fairs for both Hanukkah and for Christmas. The first of these is on November 21st, in time for Hanukkah starting on Nov. 28th…