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Signature Series: The Cheeseburger

by Malcolm Bedell May 9, 2011

Since early this year, Portland food bloggers have been eating hamburgers all over town, arranging our favorites into several categories, in an effort to find the best burgers available. This month, our cooperative coverage comes to a close (though of course, it’s not going to stop us from continuing to sample every burger we find). [...]

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How to Make Queso Blanco

by Jillian Bedell March 4, 2011

I know three things about Mexican cheese: When they say Manchego, it’s not what you think. This is processed, white melting cheese like a plastic Jack or salty Kraft. It has nothing to do with sheep or Spain, but it makes a damn fine quesadilla. Oaxaca is fun to pronounce. Whah-ha-ka! It’s wound in a [...]

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Siano’s Brick Oven

by Jillian Bedell February 16, 2011

It is important, when you are sick, and it is 18 degrees outside and mucky, to have a pizza delivery place you can count on. To whom can you cry out for cheesy salvation and saucy sustenance on a Wednesday night, when you are feeling blue and all that will help is an hour of [...]

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Today’s Sandwich: “Steak, Egg & Cheese” (Subway)

by Malcolm Bedell February 15, 2011

Today’s sandwich is the “Steak, Egg, and Cheese” breakfast sandwich from Subway. The menu describes it as, “Our delicious omelet made with our savory shaved steak, American and Monterey cheddar cheeses, fresh toasted on your choice of bread and topped with your choices of veggies and sauces.” Location: 962 St. John Street Price: $2.50 (6 [...]

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Spicy Baked Spaghetti Squash

by Jillian Bedell February 9, 2011

Despite first impressions, Sunset magazine is not a periodical for the AARP set. It portrays Life In The West in laid-back, DIY, horticultural light, which is most often filtered through a hazy, dreamy lens. Our good friends (and current SF denizens) Christmas-gifted us with The Sunset Cookbook, a collection of their best recipes. And while [...]

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Homemade Cheez-It Crackers

by Malcolm Bedell January 28, 2011

There are definitely foods that I used to enjoy, that I have had to stop having around the house. Cheez-It brand snack crackers are one of the foods I have had to simply give up, such is my devotion to them. You can keep your Goldfish, your Cheese Nips, and your Better Cheddars. Cheez-Its are [...]

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Today’s Sandwich: Steak & Cheese (Fresh Approach)

by Malcolm Bedell October 14, 2010

Location: 155 Brackett Street Price: $4.99 (on special) Notes: The giant chalkboard sign outside screaming “Steak and Cheese! $4.99!” did its job, and lured me in. I am consistently impressed by the level of guilt-inducing quality that Fresh Approach is able to crank out using just one tiny electric skillet, an amazing meat counter, and [...]

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Homemade Fried Mozzarella Sticks

by Malcolm Bedell October 8, 2010

Ah, fried mozzarella sticks. The toddler silencer. The fairgoers’ midway snack. The fuel of the currently drunk, or the consolation prize for the recently drunk, these little nuggets of crispy, melty, gooey heaven are a sure-fire crowd-pleaser. But why make your own, when the frozen food isles are chock-full of sacks of hundreds of mozzarella [...]

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Today’s Sandwich: Cheesesteak (Homemade)

by Malcolm Bedell September 20, 2010

Pennsylvanian purists would be loath to call this a “Philadelphia” cheesesteak, but that’s what’s great about recreating sandwich favorites at home: You can make them exactly the way YOU want, and to hell with the purists. My version of a cheesesteak combines shaved steak and onions sauteed in plenty of Cholula, topped with aged cheddar [...]

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