Traditional brunch fare often is heavy and usually includes fatty meats, such as bacon and sausage. Read more...

PORTLAND: Perhaps you’ll spend your day and most of your available credit limit shopping in the Pearl District. Or maybe you’ll rent a bicycle and partake in one of Portland’s pedal-powered pub crawls. Chances are you could curl up all day with a good cookbook at Powell’s. Maybe you’ll feed your brain at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Read more...

This Mother’s Day, show some love with fresh-from-the-oven carbs. Read more...

Pasta is the go-to staple for countless quick meals. It also happens to be one of the world’s most satisfying and delicious foods. But it strikes fear in the hearts of the carb-averse. Well, carb-avoiders: You can relax … a little. Read more...

It is a little after 7 a.m., and our five oldest children have just left for school. Only five more weeks and then the doors will close for another term. Meanwhile, here at home, 13-year-old Elizabeth is rapidly finishing her seventh-grade-level home-school work. She has done well with her home-schooling, and she plans to complete her eighth-grade year here at home also. Read more...

After the type of winter the Pacific Northwest has experienced this season, it leaves us wondering if spring and summer are really going to arrive. Despite the winter doldrums, the boss wants us to fill out our vacation requests ASAP. Read more...

Everybody knows whole-wheat bread beats white bread, hands-down. Read more...

We put in a new front yard a couple of weeks ago, complete with drought-tolerant plantings, decomposed granite walkways and a “water feature” (apparently, nobody says “fountain” anymore). Of course, there’s an edible component: four raised beds for growing tomatoes, squash, melons and greens, as well as two trees – a Fuyu persimmon and a Panachee fig. Read more...

Once you veer away from the classic red tomato sauce, finding a healthy pasta sauce isn’t easy. Read more...

Fresh. Local. Healthy. Organic. Read more...

The arrival of true spring salad greens is always an exhilarating moment. After a long winter’s yawn, the delicate leaves signal the start of lighter, more healthful meals. Read more...

We have enjoyed our first few meals of dandelion greens this season. Along with cooked potatoes and bacon, dandelions make for a good meal. I make a sour cream of salad dressing vinegar, salt and milk and then add the dandelion greens and hard-boiled eggs. Read more...

It’s got to be good for something, right? Read more...

The dressings are the draw for many restaurant salads, but those sweet and tangy mixtures can toss lots of extra calories and fat grams into your bowl. Read more...

When it was time to order soup, numbers determined the first course of my dinner. Per serving, Fife City Bar and Grill’s butternut squash soup contains 40 calories and 1.5 grams of fat. By comparison, corn chowder contains 240 calories and 13 grams of fat. Read more...