By Judith Yamada, Kitchen Maven The 2020 pandemic brought total devastation to so many, and disruption to the entire world. As a senior citizen, overweight and eating restaurant food at least twice…
Category: Food
KITCHEN MAVEN: TIME TO TAILGATE!
OIOpublisher By Judith Yamada, The Kitchen Maven When we lived in Corvallis, Oregon and had season tickets to OSU Beaver football games, we loved to tailgate or at least contribute to the…
Make it a locally grown Thanksgiving dinner; Enjoy 4 new farm videos!
All the locally grown makings of a delicious Thanksgiving dinner. It’s harvest season and there’s a bounty available right in our backyards. It’s November and that means making a shopping list for…
KITCHEN MAVEN: The Thanksgiving Sweet Potato Quandary
By Judith Yamada, The Kitchen Maven Although the names sweet potato and yam are used interchangeably, these tubers belong to separate plant families and are quite different. In fact, sweet potatoes aren’t…
ARDENT GOURMET: Review of Local Ocean Seafoods
by the Ardent Gourmet Unlike Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, Newport’s Historic Bayfront harbor is the real thang, hosting a flotilla of brawny fishing vessels, the kind you’d want on your side…
CHRISTMAS BASKET PROJECT: Donations, Sponsors Needed; Applications Available Oct. 17th at CARE’s Office in Tillamook
We have barely entered Autumn, and The Tillamook Ecumenical Community, (TEC), will be focusing on the Christmas season that is quickly approaching. Each year many of our neediest community members seek financial…
HPAI confirmed in two Tillamook County backyard flocks
On September 28, the U.S Department of Agriculture’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) confirmed two cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in neighboring non-commercial flocks in Tillamook County. These are…
KITCHEN MAVEN: ROSH HASHANAH AND A CLEAN SLATE – Recipe
By Judith Yamada, The Kitchen Maven Happy New Year to all of you this Rosh Hashanah for Hebrew year 5783. The holiday begins at sundown on Sunday, September 25, 2022, and ends…
KITCHEN MAVEN: THE STAFF OF LIFE
by Judi Yamada, www.kitchenmaven.org The first known use of the idiom “Staff Of Life” was in 1638; it meant “a staple of diet”, and the meaning hasn’t changed. Obtained from Western man’s…
TILLAMOOK COUNTY WELLNESS: Back to School! What to Know About School Meals in Tillamook County
By Crista Hawkins, Senior Director of Youth Wellness at Oregon Dairy & Nutrition Council Let’s be real, when we hear the term school meals, our thoughts might unintentionally drift to the Styrofoam trays…