Josh is a potter, open source programmer, avid food geek, former pastry chef, and serious home cook. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Picture: squash farinata It's not too often that someone gives me a galley of an upcoming cookbook to check out, so I felt that Crossroads by Tal Ronnen deserved a full blog review. So, here goes. If you follow food news at all, Crossroads is the vegan cookbook you're going…
Read MoreThis simple-but-delicious Italian fish dish is called "pesce all'acqua pazza", or "fish in crazy water". Where exactly the name came from isn't clear, but it's one of the more delicious things you can make in less than 20 minutes on the stovetop. More importantly, it's tomato season, so the perfect…
Read MoreMy sweetie and I adore real maple syrup. We have pancakes or waffles or a Dutch Bunny or something almost every weekend. drizzled with some Quebec gold. Nothing like it. However, we found that using the bottle or a creamer for maple syrup left something to be desired. Either it…
Read MoreProper za'atar bread is a course of its own, herbacious, oily, crunchy and savory. I do adore it, and if you bake some yourself so will you. Now, there's a proper dough for this bread, but this is the "weeknight" version which starts with refrigerator pizza dough. The hard thing…
Read MoreSo I've posted a bunch of new items for sale in the FuzzyChef Online Store. This is my first major firing with Lava Street on lots of my pieces, and I'm really loving it. Pictured above is a "cassole", the traditional baking dish for the French classic, cassoulet. Made in…
Read MoreIn one week four or more of the artists from The Clay Underground will be having a little First Thursday event at our studio. Come see (and buy) our art! Have a little wine! Watch me do pottery throwing demos! Thursday, August 6, 2015 6 to 9pm 187 Eddy Street…
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