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The Best Bakeries in Portland
Visit another Eater city site Ken’s Artisan Bakery Michelle Lopez / Eater Portland A must-hit list of the city’s bakeshops, for everything from pies and cakes to croissants and Danishes Portland’s pastry scene has always been nationally significant, using locally milled, diverse grain flours for cakes, scones, and breads; even so, many bakeries have continued to innovate, creating a wider spectrum of patisserie and other elaborate pastries available in town.
The Best Portland Celebration Restaurants for Any Type of Special Occasion
One of the best things about Portland’s dining scene is how unapologetically democratic it is. You can find good food literally everywhere: restaurants that serve bank-breaking tasting menus, random pop-ups from upstarting chefs, and rowdy food cart pods. However, sometimes a night calls for something special — a proposal dinner, a birthday party, an anniversary date. Some people love to celebrate with a ritzy tasting menu or omakase, something serious and special in an intimate space.
Chewy and Fudgy Purple Ube Brownies
Home » Desserts » Brownies, Blondies & Bars » Chewy and Fudgy Purple Ube Brownies 16 brownies 50 minutes mins These chewy and fudgy ube brownies are a vibrant purple thanks to both ube halaya jam and extract! The brownies taste like the naturally vibrant purple ube, a sweet purple Filipino yam used in many Asian desserts, and have a paper thin sugar top that crinkles when sliced.
Double Chocolate Croissant French Toast Casserole Is Exactly as Delicious as It Sounds
Soak stale croissants in a chocolate milk custard and shower the whole thing with chocolate chips for the most decadent breakfast imaginable. French toast has always been one of my favorite breakfast/brunch dishes. I blame my childhood best friend. When I was younger, I used to sleep over at her house every other weekend. Her household always had a ton of snacks that were contraband in my own, so during our sleepovers I would feast on all the soda, Pop-Tarts, and candy they had in their pantry.
Where to Find Flaky, Crackly Croissants in Portland
There’s no shortage of creativity when it comes to Portland’s pastry scene. This is the city that birthed cereal-topped donuts and foie gras profiteroles, after all. But classics are classics for a reason, which is why this map focuses on buttery, flaky croissants. Croissant dough is made by rolling and folding together yeasted dough with sheets of butter multiple times to create layers; this process is called lamination.
These Ube Crinkle Cookies Are the Perfect Fusion of My Filipino American Heritage
This recipe is part of our Quarantine Cookies package, featuring 16 of our favorite bakers and their best cookie for 2020. Check out all the amazing cookies here, and sign up here to receive one cookie recipe per day, for 20 days, straight to your inbox. Christmas in the Philippines, where I was born, is a wonderful thing.
Firefighters reach 63% containment on El Dorado Fire
The massive El Dorado Fire, that started Saturday, Sept. 5, in Yucaipa, continues to burn in the mountain communities. As of Thursday, Sept. 17, the fire burned 18,500 acres and was 63 percent contained. Yucaipa “It is an odd feeling to be told you can’t go home,” said Yucaipa resident Jesse Dinkel, who was evacuated from his home last week. “After all, the one place we want to go most of all is home. But unlike Dorothy, we can’t just click our heels together and go home.
How to Get Desserts for Delivery or Takeout in Portland Right Now
In the last few weeks, many of Portland’s beloved bakeries and pastry shops have temporarily closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although boxes of decadent, buttery croissants and colorful donuts is undoubtedly a luxury, they also can offer a bright spot and a brief escape to normalcy during these tumultuous times. Below is an assortment of the bakeries and pastry shops still offering delivery and takeout.
Michelle Lopez: Immigrant Center seeking a full census count
By Michelle Lopez PITTSFIELD — 2020 is an election year, a leap year, and a Census year. The Berkshire Immigrant Center (BIC) urges all residents of Berkshire County to flex their civic muscle and participate in this once-a-decade national count. BIC is taking an active leadership role in the Complete Count Committee (CCC) for the Berkshires. The federal Census Bureau created the CCC program to help people on the ground locally to make sure the counts in their areas are as accurate as possible.
Michelle Lopez: Hardcover: 9781501189876: Powell's Books
Staff Pick Weeknight Baking is the perfect baking book for busy folks. It's also a terrific beginner baking book; my preteen daughter is very excited to try the recipes and expand her cooking and baking knowledge. Recommended By Deana R., Powells.com If you’ve been casting lovelorn glances at your standing mixer as you hurry through each day’s endless to-do list, fret no longer. Lopez’s cheery and creative collection of time-saving recipes will reunite you with your mixing bowls.
The Baking Step You Can (Pretty Much Always) Skip
You’ve probably come across a recipe that asks you to sift an ingredient (usually flour, cocoa powder, or confectioners’ sugar) before starting. But in my book Weeknight Baking, I rarely call for sifting ingredients—and especially not flour. Why? Well, I think that sifting flour is often a waste of time.
Weeknight Baking
âThese are the recipes all home bakers want and need in their arsenal--plus tons of creative, inspiring variationsâand Michelle breaks them all down into easy-to-execute parts.
New Cookbooks to Up Your Thanksgiving Game!
By Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, John Becker and Megan Scott âCooking shouldnât just be about making a delicious dishâowning the process and enjoying the experience ought to be just as important as the meal itself.
Weeknight Baking
âThese are the recipes all home bakers want and need in their arsenal--plus tons of creative, inspiring variationsâand Michelle breaks them all down into easy-to-execute parts.
Levain Bakery Blueberry Muffins
Mix the dry ingredients, then mix the wet ingredients. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, almond meal, baking powder, and salt. In a small liquid measuring cup, whisk together the milk and the vanilla. Cream the sugar and butter, then add the eggs. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the sugar and butter.
Where to Order a Birthday Cake in Portland
In Portland, desserts are serious business: From Portland’s various doughnut shops to its cabal of cookies, the city digs its sweets. But nothing feels quite as celebratory as a five-layer cake slathered in buttercream, dripping with chocolate, or all of the above.
Portland Celebration Restaurants for Any Type of Special Occasion
One of the best things about Portland’s dining scene is how unapologetically democratic it is. You can find good food literally everywhere: restaurants that serve bank-breaking tasting menus, random pop-ups from upstarting chefs, and rowdy food cart pods. However, sometimes a night calls for something special — a proposal dinner, a birthday party, an anniversary date. Some people love to celebrate with a ritzy tasting menu or omakase, something serious and special in an intimate space.
Portland Bars and Restaurants Slinging Frosty, Boozy Slushies This Summer
As Portland continues to get hotter every summer, and year-round, it remains a fun-loving city that goes wild for elaborate, goofy drinks. Those qualities create the ideal conditions for a thriving frozen drink scene, from tiki bars blending up classic hurricanes to cocktail bars blending daiquiris with fresh fruit. Below, find an array of piña coladas, slushies, and frosé, as well as other, more unorthodox concoctions.
11 Portland Restaurants Where Dessert Steals the Show
In a city known for its many doughnuts, ice cream, and even patisseries, waiting for souffles and semifreddos in a restaurant can seem like an unnecessarily premature and unexciting way to end the night. But diners waving away dessert menus may be ignoring some of the best confections in Portland. Here are 11 full-fledged restaurants that offer some of the most satisfying desserts in the city, featuring a diversity of goods like indulgent chocolate cake, Paris-Best, and profiteroles.
The Best Flaky, Buttery Pies in Portland
Portland loves its baked goods. And pie — that magical amalgamation of pastry stuffed with fruit or meat, baked to warm, flaky perfection — is no exception. Portland, a city known for its seasonal fruits and vegetables, is home to a number of pie cafes that feature Oregon produce between their crusts, from summer marionberry to fall apple.
Where to Find Flaky, Buttery, Sweet and Savory Pies in Portland
Portland loves its baked goods. And pie — that magical amalgamation of pastry stuffed with fruit or meat, baked to warm, flaky perfection — is no exception. Portland, a city known for its seasonal fruits and vegetables, is home to a number of pie cafes that feature Oregon produce between their crusts, from summer marionberry to fall apple.
Where to Find the Best Ice Cream in Portland and Beyond
Fifty Licks Dining Out in Portland The top spots for cones, sundaes, froyo, and more Updated Jul 1, 2025, 9:08 PM UTC With its national acclaim that rakes in tourists and its eyebrow-raising flavors that irk purists and entice the adventurous, Portland’s ice cream culture is worth the hype year-round.
Salted Chocolate and Pumpkin Babka
I’m a crazy cookbook collector. I have shelves upon shelves of cookbooks, so many that I can’t even find a place for them all in my kitchen. There’s a cabinet in the dining room that holds a healthy stack, while the rest line the shelf in my study that’s slowly bowing in the middle as it attempts to hold their weight. Because while the internet is an abundance and wealth of information, there’s something just really freaking nice about holding a book in your hands.
Raspberry Cheesecake Tartlets
Before we get to my awesome recipe for raspberry cheesecake tartlets, allow me to just ramble at you for a little bit. Because there are so many exciting things to discuss on the blog today! First and foremost, internet aficionados out there know that next Monday, July 1st, Google Reader is shutting down. Womp womp. Why can’t Google Reader just stick around?! Sob. I’ve been using Google Reader since 2010, and, despite my best efforts, I haven’t really found an alternative that’s worked for me.
Shaved Roasted Asparagus on Toast with Hollandaise
The other day at lunch, my coworkers and I had a very heated discussion about whether or not brunch was worth the long wait. And when I mean long wait, I MEAN lonnngg wait. There are a couple places around Portland (The Screen Door and Tasty n Sons being the worst offenders) where people actually camp out an hour or two before the restaurant opens just to get through the front door. All in all, we’re talking about a two to three hour wait! Grim.
Supernatural Brownies
Supernatural Brownies Why are these brownies supernatural? They are incredibly fudgy and silky, thanks to lots of melted chocolate and brown sugar in the batter. If you’re the kind of person who likes chewy or cakey brownies, I suggest you look elsewhere. This brownie recipe is dense and fudgy all the way! The brownies have a melt-in-your-mouth texture similar to chocolate ganache and truffles. But the best part?
Triple Chocolate Truffle Tart
Guys, bread month is completely out the window. I totally dropped the ball on that one. But as I was looking through my November archives, I realized that about 75% of this month’s post have been other things besides bread. In other words, I’ve had one bread-making post of the four I’ve published this month. Oops. To be fair, the plan this weekend was to bake some challah. But as I started gathering ingredients, I realized I had nothing I needed for a loaf of challah.
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