Portland Home Cooking

Real Food for Real People

Sustainable cooking, simply prepared the Oregon way ...  fresh & local, light & delicious

Welcome to Portland Home Cooking.

Introductory Offer

Reduced hourly prices through 3/20/2010

Allow me to introduce you to seasonal, homegrown, real food cuisine. Take advantage of this offer. Please call or email for a free consultation

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Your first private class, team building event or personal chef service?

Just mention the discounted winter rates when you phone or email.  

Let Portland Home cooking help you become a seasonal home gourmet. 

• Shop locally.

• Use everyday seasonal ingredients.

•  Learn to prepare simple, delicious real food recipes.  

Private, cozy cooking workshops in the Portland Home Cooking kitchen, allow you to:

•  pick your personal cooking topic of interest,
• learn new dishes based on your food preferences and dietary needs,
• participate alone, with the cook's full attention, or share the experience with a few good friends
•  take away information, recipes and goals for shopping locally and sustainably.

You'll have fun in the process, and get to sample the prepared recipes.  Just call or email with your preferences for topic, date and time.

Team Building Events at your home or work site kitchen:  

• We facilitate employee and management team building events through the creative tasks of group food preparation, an ideal team building exercise. Your team will enjoy their culinary adventure together and relish the edible results.   

We love to bake and will prepare original specialty baked goods and dessert recipes - fresh - in your home. Try traditional, gluten free, vegan, low fat, & high fiber desserts, snacks and quick breads. 

Try a group class at the Sellwood Community Center? These inexpensive prescheduled classes offer an introduction to various easy seasonal recipes and provide seasonal shopping information and handouts.

How about a cooking party? 

When you host one of our themed, hands on, cooking parties in your home, the host and guests prepare the food together. The chef will facilitate the cooking festivities and clean the kitchen while you and your friends enjoy the results.

Has your interest been piqued? We hope so. Learn more about the team building, classes, parties and in home cooking services Portland Home Cooking has to offer.

Beautiful gift certificates, displaying pictures of some Portland Home Cooking seasonal creations, are available for gift giving.

For a free consultation, please contact  

Judith@portlandhomecooking.com

or phone 503-239-1989 from 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM everyday.

Have you been to Bob's Red Mill or heard about Bob's? They have loads of specialty baking ingredients available at their huge mill store, in grocery stores all over, or by mail.

Do you know about the Sustainable Table? Just going to this great web site is an education. You can find their links on our news and recipe page.

I'm Judith Yamada, and this is the website for Portland Home Cooking.

Portland Home Cooking is all about eating well and simply, while doing what's best for yourself, your family and your community.

Each week over 300 farmers leave the land (Farm Aid).  Small family farms are becoming extinct along with the family farmer's committment to healthy stewardship of the land. If you have a committment to revitalizing your community let your wallets speak for you. Shopping locally for foods that are farmed, ranched prepared and processed near where we live will not only put more sustainable meals on your tables.

• Shopping seasonally provides food that's at peak freshness when we buy it. So it tastes better.

Farmers in your area spend most of their money locally for their needed food, supplies, tools, home needs, etc. This, in turn, supports other local businesses and your community - bringing jobs to where you live.

• Shopping locally gives consumers the opportunity to visit food suppliers and learn for ourselves about their production practices.

When you shop near home, you're able to visit local farms and businesses, building relationships and trust.

• Save money buying in season. 

It goes without saying that food in season is readily available; it's the law of supply and demand. If there's a lot of something, it's probably less expensive, especially when it doesn't have to span the globe to reach you.

Next time you go to the market, and pick up that tempting orange from Australia or bunch of asparagus from Argentina, please think about how long ago that long distance produce was picked, and the carbon footprint that's part of its long distance scenario.  Just as importantly, remember that sustaining our small local farms (which are quickly disappearing due to huge farming corporations) sustains our communities. Discover all we can do with what we have at hand.

Eat well and buy local,

Judi

Owner &  Chef

Portland Home Cooking

 Olive Cheese Pastry Bites

Fresh Cranberry Filbert Upside-Down Cake  

Apple Yam & Walnut Scallop

Seasonal Vegetable Bean Soup