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Lost and Found, Café Azul’s Tinga Pie {Recipe}

May 1, 2018 Maria Stuart 3 Comments

Cafe Azul. Just the name brings back such festive and delicious memories. Years ago, it must have been about 1996, two sisters named Shawna and Claire Archibald opened Cafe Azul in downtown McMinnville. Claire was the chef and Shawna ran the front of the house. Claire trained with Diana Kennedy, that legendary cookbook writer […]

Elegant Winter Comfort Food – Beef Stroganoff {Recipe}

February 11, 2018 Maria Stuart Leave a Comment

As I sit here at my desk, sunshine is pouring through the window and warming my back. It feels lovely after getting up especially early this morning – it was so cold and dark. We’re having a pretty mild winter here in the Willamette Valley (sorry my midwest and east coast people), but let’s not […]

Harvest Rhythms and Northwest Cioppino {Recipe}

October 20, 2017 Maria Stuart 3 Comments

Like the seasons of the year, the harvest seasons has its own rhythm. It usually starts off slowly, then picks up speed in terms of both the pace of the fruit coming into the winery and also the number of people who are here to work. At the peak, we’re as many as 18 or […]

Comfort Food and Harvest – Moussaka {Recipe Included}

October 13, 2017 Maria Stuart 2 Comments

We’re in the throes of harvest here in the Willamette Valley. It is somewhat comforting that in these crazy times we’re living in when every week seems to bring fresh bad news, that harvest comes around every October, ready or not. Those grapes are ripe and they need to be picked and turned into wine, […]

Love Thy Neighbor and Pakistani Slow-Cooked Lamb Stew {Recipe}

January 31, 2017 Maria Stuart Leave a Comment

I’ll confess I’ve had trouble pulling myself away from the internet this past week. Every twist and turn of this crazy new political world compels me to keep going down the rabbit hole, keep clicking on the next headline. It makes me think of that recent New Yorker cartoon: “My desire to be well-informed is […]