Portland Home Cooking

Menus change as local produce comes into and goes out of season. We strive to keep recipe ingredients as local and seasonal as possible. So, what you see on the menu today may not be available as the seasons change.

Sustainable Brunch & Dinner menu suggestions

Winter - Spring   

DIETARY KEY:

Contains Meat, Fish or Seafood

Vegetarian

* Vegan

* Gluten Free

**Asterisks denote dietary options for preparing the food items listed on this page. Text color is the key to diet type. Selections with no asterisk are prepared for one diet type, only. 

 Too busy to cook? Expecting someone you'd like to impress for dinner, but you just don't have the time to cook? Cocktail party? Let us do it for you.

Simply contact Judi. 

Below are some suggestions to give you ideas. Please mix and match or request other ethnic or regional seasonal cuisine you'd like prepared.

We cook using seasonal and local ingredients as much as possible. Please consider that when making your menu choices.

To learn what's seasonal in Portland (or wherever you live) go to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) website . Their NEW Simple Steps pages will give you helpful information and a list of what's in season, right now, where you live.

1. *Fresh Seasonal Fruit, Nuts & and Steel Cut Oats in honey yogurt

Baked Spice Pancake with sautéed maple-butter nectarines or fresh berries & crème fraiche

*Red Onion, Oregon Chevre' & Mushroom Scramble

Blueberry Muffins OR Apple Pepperjack Cornbread with spicy maple glaze

2. *Oregon Chevre', Mushroom & Leek Frittata

**Seasonal Fruit & Vegetable Slaw

*Cornbread OR

*Brown Soda Bread

3. Challah Buttermilk French Toast with raspberry butter and maple syrup

Triple Mushroom, Cheddar, & Herb crepes with light crème fraiche

*Baked brown sugar pears with honey rum sauce & whipped cream

4. Wasabi Deviled Eggs

**Shitake & Lentil Pate' with garlic toasts

Olive & Oregon Cheddar Pastry Bites

Jezebel Sauce and Oregon Chevre'

*Deli Style Chopped Liver and rye crisps

Gougeres with smoked salmon pate'

* Macerated berries with crème fraiche

Hearty Meditteranean Spinach Nibbles

**Assorted mini tarts and cookies

5. Cheese Blintzes with seasonal fruit and sour cream

 *Gardener's Summer Galette or *Summer Gardener's Pie (gluten free)

*Fresh Fruit Compote with citrus  crème fraiche

6.**French Lentil and Shitake Patties with berry chili sauce

**Herb Rice or Toasted PollentaSeasonal Upside-Down Fruit Cake or **Almond Sandies

7. Baked Salmon with miso soup, tofu & vegetables 

**Steamed Rice

**Oregon Sushi Rolls (with seafood or vegan)

Orange custard tarts with strawberries

Spiced custard with vanilla cream

8.*Smoked Salmon Brunch Casserole

**Lentil Medley Salad 

Apple, Potato or Noodle Kugel

**Green tea & cinnamon poached prunes

9. **Agave Tequila Chili of (variety beans, seasonal vegetables and  braised beef    

 *Tofu, Mushroom & Asparagus quiche

Profiteroles with chocolate orange sauce

11. *Overnight Eggs Benedict OR Eggs Bruschetta 

Neufchatel, Ricotta & Spiced Apple Blintzes with crème fraiche

Flaky Sausage Rolls with spicy tomato cream sauce 

12. **African Split Pea, Vegetable & Pear soup

Fluffy multi-grain biscuits with honey butter

Roast Pork Tenderloin with apples & onion

Yam Pie with vanilla cream 

 13. *Seasonal Gardener's Galette

**Three Bean, Vegetable and Barley Cassoulet with sun dried tomatoes & herb croutons

Apple-Walnut Crumble Pie

*Filbert Fudge Crunch Cake

14. Sicilian Chicken Sausage & Sun Dried Tomato Lasagna

**Vegetarian Antipasta

**California Wedding Cookies and Seasonal Fruit Crisp

16. Spaghetti Primavera

**Vegetarian Antipasta

**California Wedding Cookies

Plum or Cherry Almond Galette

 17. Spinach, fontina & pesto lasagna

 * Strawberry, Walnut & Oregon Goat Cheese Salad with citrus vinaigrette

Lemon Glazed Cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and berry accent

18. *Fennel, Olive & Parsley Pesto Crepes with spicy tomato sauce or herb cream sauce

 Seasonal Vegetable Salad with wine or lemon vinaigrette, tarragon French,  or Oregon blue cheese dressing 

Cream Filled Chocolate Cupcakes

19. *Shoyu Chicken with soba noodles, scallions, fresh herbs & bean sprouts

**Steamed Rice

**Mexican Cocoa Tea Cakes & Lemon  Poppyseed Sandwich Cookies

20. Quiche Lorraine  

Oregon Chevre' & Seasonal Vegetable Quiche  

*Roasted or Macerated Fruit with crème fraiche or lemon sauce

Pear Clafoutti

*Spring Vegetable & Tempeh pot pie

Light Mushroom  Soup with balsamic garlic croutons, yogurt & chives

Yogurt Cake with seasonal fruit

22. Farmers Market Lasagna

Spinach-Ricotta Cannelloni Crepes with Parmesan cream or Marinara sauce

Seasonal vegetable Salad with Balsamic vinaigrette, tarragon French or creamy Oregon blue cheese dressing 

Strawberry Rhubarb Galette or

Chocolate Crunch Cake

23. Sicilian Chicken Sausage & Sun Dried Tomato lasagna

Spinach, Fontina & Pesto Lasagna

**Toasted Coconut Fudge Pudding

24. Squash & Leek Risotto with Parmigiano Reggiano

**Asparagus, Red Onion and Walnut Salad with lemon vinaigrette

**Spiced Applesauce with fresh berries

25. Roasted Pork Tenderloin with herb mustard sauce

Rice with toasted pine nuts & vermicelli

Traditional Antipasta

Black Forest Peekaboos

26. Devilled Dungeness Crab Cakes with creamy herb sauce & mesclun greens

*Baked Cheese Grits

*Cajun Yam Biscuits

Lemon Berry Tartlets

27. Cupcakes Dorothea (Chocolate Cheesecake Filled Cakes with coffee buttercream topping)

Cupcakes Melissa (Vanilla Raspberry Cheesecake Filled Cakes with vanilla buttercream topping)

StrawberryTartlets

Orangies (Orange Brownies with orange buttercream)

Pear Clafoutti (custard and fruit dessert)

**Fudge Almond Tart