Small group food preparation serves as an excellent means of Team Building for your management team, work team or family group. The required cooperation, coordination, organization, listening skills and management skills, provide a learning experience in many aspects.  Preparing a meal successfully in which everything is ready at once, it's all tasty and all participants not only learn something but feel good about their experience, is an opportunity for growth and understanding. Discuss your experience while enjoying the fruits of your sustainable cooking efforts. Team building workshops occur at your venue kitchen, and are facilitated by Portland Home Cooking's owner, Judith Yamada, who is also an experienced group facilitator and mediator. 
A $15.00 travel fee applies for every fifteen minutes of travel distance. Fee is waived for venues 10 minutes or less in travel distance. (Distance is based on Yahoomaps information).

• Complete a "Food Preference Survey".
  
  
• Have simple delicious recipes created to your tastes, abilities and the season.

• shop seasonally, locally and simply.  

• learn to adapt recipes by using fresh ingredients.

• organize your kitchen, your cooking and your time.

• discover time saving small kitchen gadgets and local products.

•  become a more relaxed, creative and competent cook and food shopper.

• prepare delightful locally seasonal (simple) gourmet recipes with less effort. 
  (option of cooking together in your kitchen or outlining and organizing tasks for a week of menus) 

The price of $90.00 reflects a three (3) hour minimum appointment. A $15.00 travel fee applies for every fifteen minutes of travel distance. Fee is waived for venues 10 minutes or less in travel distance. (Distance is based on Yahoomaps information).

Lovely, new enviromentally conscious cottage studio with full kitchen, skylight, full bath, private entrance, garden, WIFI, basic cable TV, air conditioning, Portland crafted queen bed futon, full bed, laundry room, all linens and blankets, cooking tools & appliances, off street car parking, use of bicycles, and delicious homemade breakfast included. Located in the quaint and charming Westmoreland neighborhood and just eight minutes, by car, to downtown Portland. There is a two night minimum, with reduced rates for longer stays. Please email or phone for further details.  The cottage is $125.00 per night, double occupancy. There is a $25.00 charge for each additional guest, with an occupancy limit of four adults. 

Visa or Mastercard required at check-in. Not child appropriate. No pets. No smoking in cottage or on property. The south side of the cottage is a 24-hour quiet zone with respect to neighbor proximity, potential noise and privacy concerns. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and understanding. We live in a beautiful, quaint and family friendly Portland neighborhood. And we'd like to keep it so.

12/06/2011: We're still waiting for "Approval" based on findings of City of Portland Land Use Appeal Hearing held on November 7, 2011.

I will come to your home or business and prepare 5 meals (20 total servings) and 4 snacks (16 total servings). Price: $50.00/hour, including shopping time, within an 8 hour time frame. Meal and snack ingredients will be based on a menu created from your food preference survey responses. Servings are wrapped, labelled and frozen or refrigerated, per your preference. For best taste and freshness, frozen meals and snacks should be eaten with 2 weeks and refrigerated food should be eaten withing 2-5 days. Cost below is a deposit to the total amount due. Travel fee applies as above.

Would you like to provide your staff or customers with demonstrations of seasonal Oregon and comfort food cuisine? Would they (or you) benefit from learning more about seasonal shopping, local products, helpful gadgets, easy organization of food prep, and simple, healthy and delicious recipes to make at home?

Public cooking demonstrations at your venue are both educational and entertaining. And everyone goes home with information and recipes. Price is $35.00/hour with a 3 hour minimum, when you provide the ingredients.

There is an additional cost for shopping time and food, when we do the shopping, and a $40.00 kitchen assistant charge, for clean up, if desired.

Demonstrations may be "hands on" for participants, if requested ahead of time. In addition, aprons and use of hand tools, and a digital catalog of the event will be provided at no extra cost.

Travel fee applies as above.