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 changeCOSTS:

Recipe ingredients cost you exactly what they cost us, based on market price. Personal Chef and party services include shopping, food preparation and clean up of cooking area and utensils, on a per hour basis. Team building includes the same except your team does the cooking with chef facilitation. (see pricing).

Autumn – Winter    

Sustainable Brunch & Dinner menu suggestions

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. 

Underlined options apply to the "Combo" package on pricing page 

Other options for the combo package are on "Winter Desserts & Quick Breads" and "Appetizer & Side Dishes" pages. 

Below are some suggestions meant to give you ideas. Please mix and match or request any other dishes or nationality cuisine you'd like to have prepared.

1. *Fresh seasonal fruit & nuts in honey yogurt

Baked pumpkin spice pancake with sautéed maple-butter pears or apples

*Red onion, Oregon chevre' & mushroom scramble

*Oregon blue Cheese & Rosemary Biscuits

2. *Oregon blue cheese, mushroom & leek frittata

**Seasonal fruit & vegetable slaw

*Cornbread OR

*Multi-grain biscuits with honey butter

Triple mushroom, Cheddar, & herb crepes with light crème fraiche

*Baked brown sugar pears

4. Chicken Andouille Jambalaya

*Cheese Grits

 Pecan tarts

5. *Brown rice flapjacks with filbert honey butter

*Seasonal veggie & cheese strata

*Fresh fruit compote with citrus  crème fraiche

6. **Roasted vegetables ratatouille with fresh herb pesto

**French lentil and shitake Patties with cranberry chili sauce

**Herb rice or toasted pollenta

Upside-Down fruit cake

7. Baked salmon with miso soup, tofu & vegetables 

**Steamed rice                        **Oregon sushi rolls (with or without seafood)

8.*Smoked salmon brunch casserole 

Sour cream scones                     

*Green tea & cinnamon poached prunes

9. **Agave tequila chili of (variety beans, winter squash, roasted buckwheat & vegetables)       

*Tofu, mushroom & scallion quiche

 **Maple baked apples with walnuts & currants

11. *Overnight eggs Benedict OR Eggs Bruschetta 

Neufchatel, ricotta & spiced apple blintzes with crème fraiche 

12. *Winter Vegetable & Turkey Shepherd's Pie

**Three bean, vegetable and barley cassoulet with sun dried tomatoes & herb croutons

Mesclun Mix with herb viniagrette

 15. *Winter Squash & Leek Rissotto with Parmigiano Reggiano 

Spinach, fontina & pesto lasagna

 *Pear, Walnut & Oregon Blue Cheese Salad with berry viniagrette

16. *Squash, leek, & pesto crepes with spicy tomato sauce or herb cream sauce

Smoked pepper & beef chili 

Pepperjack maple cornbread

Seasonal vegetable salad with Balsamic viniagrette, tarragon French  or creamy blue cheese dressing 

17. *Shoyu chicken with soba noodles, scallions & bean sprouts

**Steamed rice

**Almond sandies

18. Quiche Lorraine  

Oregon chevre' & seasonal vegetable quiche  

*Roasted or macerated fruit with crème fraiche or lemon sauce

Pear or Apple Clafoutti

19.Three cheese, olive & herb Quiche

*Winter vegetable & tempeh pot pie

Seasonal vegetable salad with Balsamic viniagrette, tarragon French or creamy blue cheese dressing

Carrot & walnut muffins

20. Farmers market lasagna

Spinach-ricotta cannelloni crepes with cream or red sauce

Seasonal vegetable salad with Balsamic viniagrette, tarragon French or creamy blue cheese dressing 

21. *Winter Squash & Leek Rissotto with Parmigiano Reggiano

Spinach, fontina & pesto lasagna

22. Squash, leek, and pesto crepes with spicy tomato sauce or herb cream sauce

**Northern bean, squash & green chili stew

*Cornbread 

23. Sicilian chicken sausage & sun dried tomato lasagna

Roasted pork loin with herb mustard sauce

Traditional antipasta

Black Forest Peekaboos

24. Devilled Dungeness crab cakes with creamy herb sauce & mesclun greens

*Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes

*Pumpkin biscuits

*Bananas Foster

Sicilian Chicken Lasagna