Portland Home Cooking

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- NEWS SPECIAL -

During the warm weather months, Portland Home Cooking is offering a very special price on private classes for two. These consist of your choice (mix and match) of warm weather recipes that do NOT require an oven.

Please check the "pricing" page  to learn more. By choosing not to use the oven, and save energy, you get over a 50% discount off the original price of the second class.

 Seasonal Cooking

Sometimes taking advantage of seasonal bounty can be a challenge. Portland Home Cooking offers private sustainable cooking classes and demonstrations with a focus on all that's seasonal and local.

If you enjoy cooking and would like to become a more creative seasonal and sustainable culinarian,  Judith Yamada of Portland Home Cooking will take the challenge out of preparing seasonal gourmet meals.

As a class participant, you'll be entertained, observe or assist in preparation of international and regional soul food, and dine on the results. You'll begin to look at ingredients first and then recipes (instead of the other way around), and you'll find ways to seasonally adapt recipes and use simple ideas, tools and methods with fabulous results.

Portland Home Cooking offers:

• private cooking classes and demonstrations in the Portland Home Cooking kitchen, for one to four participants,
• in-home personal chef service of traditional, vegan and gluten free baking and meal preparation,
• corporate team building cooking events and theme cooking party facilitation for larger groups at a venue of their choice,
• free consultations and
• full color paperless gift certificates.

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  Whether you long for

• Southern Johnny Cakes, African Split Pea Soup,  Chirashi Sushi, Mom's Apple Pie,  Filled Rolled & Baked Canneloni, Andouille Jambalaya, Shoyu Chicken and Soba, Lemon Pudding Cake, Creamy Italian Risotto, Cajun Crab Cakes, Irish Brown Soda Bread, Deli Style Chopped Liver, Blueberry Batter Pudding, Arroz con Pollo, Fluffy Yam Biscuits, Buttermilk Waffles, Chili Verde, Beef Burgundy, Pot de Creme au Chocolate or Cheese Blintzes, we will prepare your soulful comfort food and transport you back to those tastes of home once again. 

   That's a lot of soul food!

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  For a free consultation contact

  Judith@portlandhomecooking.com

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

Welcome to Portland Home Cooking.

Portland Home Cooking specializes in international  and regional soul food and nostalgia recipes made new again, and sustainable, through the use of seasonal and local ingredients.

 We all eat soul food. The cuisine depends on who raised you, where and when. No matter what your background- you ate it and probably still long for that taste of home.

Welcome!

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

 Portland Home Cooking is all about eating well and cooking simply while doing what's best for ourselves, our families and our communities. If you'd like to  nourish your culinary appetite and skills, while sustaining your community, you've come to the right place.

My recipes add seasonal culinary touches and exotic flair to comfort food of days gone by and places long remembered.  I'd like to share what I've learned with you, while focusing on locally farmed  foods and homegrown products.  We'll keep it seasonally delicious.

Eat well and buy local,

Judi

Owner &  Chef

Portland Home Cooking

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