Author: Michelle

Udon Noodles with Spring Vegetables

Vegetables! Give me spring vegetables. It can’t be pizza all the time around here. But I wouldn’t complain if it was.   This came from a fierce craving of something fresh, green, and crisp. It’s rather coincidence that sugar snap peas are all the rage 

Pizza Week: 2016

As promised, these are the few slices I had during Portland Mercury’s Pizza Week. It’s like their burger week, but for pizza [you’re welcome]. My idea of heaven. Pizza is my weakness. I would eat it all day, every day, and have no shame. I 

Sweet Potato Spinach Pasta

No long hours at the office. No studying. No class. No exams. Nothing. I leave the office like a normal human, and I find myself with an abundance if free time. I haven’t had free time like this in years. Even though I would still do 

Massaman Curry Chicken Noodle Soup

It’s hardly soup weather anymore. Tax season ended with 80+° weather, and it’s hovered in that range ever since. Despite it being pizza week [think burger week, but y’know, with pizza], I made Thai basil pork my first meal back in the kitchen. Surprise, surprise. 

Broccoli Cheddar Rolls

New [to me] pizza was had on Friday night. Handsome Pizza is a sweet little pie shop over on Killingsworth. Their special had stinging nettles, mozzarella, shaved onion, Calabrian chilies and parmesan. I ate it. It sounded so intriguing. My parents have been on a big 

Cheese-Stuffed Chicken Meatballs

Another rapid fire update and a recipe during busy season: *Prince Coffee is a new coffeeshop in the ‘hood and they make stroopwafels. STROOPWAFELS. Yes. *Speaking of coffee, our office now has Water Avenue espresso and Stumptown drip coffee. My caffeine intake is at an all-time