Beets from Sauvie Island’s Pumpkin Patch are fermented with whey to make this delicious, savory, blood cleansing, and energizing digestive beverage . Traditionally, kvass was a russian peasant drink full of plenty of lactobacilli cultures and made from rye berries — great to fortify the blood and your body. I add a pinch of salt before drinking, you may want to add more to taste. Try adding your own flavor with a sprig of rosemary or some juniper berries!

**packaged and sold in 16oz bottles

**p.s. (cough, cough) i’ve heard this pairs nicely with a dry gin!!

This is Pork fat rendered from a beautiful pig at Friendly Haven Rise byodunamic farm. It is sweet and delicious. Great for everyday cooking, baking and frying potato chips. Rendered lard contains about 40% saturated fat, 60% monounsaturated fat. It can be hard or soft depending on how the pig was fed, and is about 2-3% palmitoleic acid (which posesses antimicrobial properties*)

Note: crisco (yuck-o) was created to replace this traditional ingredient.

**packaged and sold by the half pint

* information taken from “Know Your Fats” by Dr Mary Enig

Sour cherries are dried and added to Freddy Guys raw soaked hazelnuts, soaked grains and seeds, coconut, rosehips, a hint of vanilla, citrus, maple and a dash of honey to make this delicious snack or breakfast dish. Eat it straight away or soak it overnight in yogurt or coconut milk for a real treat.

And yes, this healthy granola is GLUTE-FREE by virtue of the wonderful availability of Bob’s Red Mill GF Oats, which are grown in isolation to protect against any possible wheat contamination.

**soaking helps to remove astringent tannins from nuts and seeds that make them harder to digest. This granola is also high in Vitamin C!

**packaged and sold by the pound, about 4 servings

A beautiful mayonnaise full of all the best saturated fats: organic macadamia nut oil, extra virgin coconut oil and extra virgin olive oil are blended with citrus and pastured eggs for a bright and slightly nutty mayo that turns any meal into a gourmet experience. It is probably one of my favorite recipes of all time, because the flavor is incomparable to anything you could imagine a mayo to taste like. I want to eat it on everything! Try dipping your fresh veggies in it or as the basis for a salad dressing. Mix it with fish or chicken for a quick salad or in a wrap!

**packaged and sold in 8oz packages

Something a little different and a little more intimate…This is a different kind of feast in that it is a class and a feast in one. This will be limited to 12 people and will include demonstrations on jam and jelly making, potted cheese, and quick pickles. Between demos will will be serving a 4 course meal that showcases each of these products. This will be a lot of fun and come with your appetite and your questions for all things related to canning, preserves and pickles. Alton Garcia comes from a canning family. Blessed with a back yard full of fruit trees, his family has been making preserves, jams & jellies as long as he can remember. He used all this experience in his career as a chef for Square Peg, Navarre, Broder and other local resturants. Recently, he and William McRae started Hand-made Food-a CSA for canned goods, pickles, vinegar and all things preserved. Cost is $60/person.

Research Club and Salt Fire and Time present: Issues in Art Education: Dinner and Discussion

What does it really take to teach art, creativity, and critical thinking? Are university courses worth the investment made by students, and what effect do they have on the greater world of art? Are there better ways to foster creative communities and advance the arts?

Nearly everyone who’s tried to get serious about art has asked themselves questions like these. Enough impassioned discussion about these topics has emerged at Research Club events that we felt compelled to open a public dialogue about them. We’re very excited to be working with Salt, Fire, and Time to host a dinner and panel discussion centering on these issues and the people in Portland (and beyond) who are doing something about them. Join us on March 29th for a traditional, family-styled, three course dinner creatively prepared by chef Tressa Yellig, presentations by local groups and individuals who have been creating alternatives to conventional arts education, and open discussion over dessert. Ticket includes meal — menu to be announced with seasonal offerings and a packet of relevant research and resources prepared by Research Club in conjunction with our guest speakers.

Cost: $30/person
Time: 6pm @the kitchen

This is a unique dinner — introducing you a group of folks trying to create some transparency around Portland cultural concerns…The Dill Pickle Club is a creative cultural center dedicated to providing an experimental forum for critiquing contemporary culture, politics and humanities. Since June 2009, they have led programs in which academics, political activists, artists and the inquisitive public have come together to uncover and explore Oregon and its many points of interest. Focusing on experiential and participatory learning, the Dill Pickle Club also produces and sells publications documenting local culture and history.

Join Dill Pickler ringleaders Marc Moscato, Lucy Rockwell & Kyle Von Hoetzendorff for dinner and a slide lecture on the Dill Pickle Club’s urban field trips, publications and activities. The three will give a short slide show of the past six months of programs, even show a few short films on technocracy, then give an sneak peak to the club’s 2010 trips (before they’re announced to the general public!).

@ 7:00pm in the kitchen. Cost $35/person, please RSVP, space is limited.

please note: a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Dill Pickle Club

Bones from Highland oak ranch are simmered for over 12 hours with carrots and onions and vinegar to flavor the mineral richness that slowly steeps into this rich gelatinous bone broth. It works great as a base for soups, sauces, grains, beans or add some kraut and a bit of miso for a delicious and easy lunch. A warm cup in the morning is a simple and nourishing tonic to begin the day. This is the flavor of love!
Bone broth is the most accessible “cure-all in traditional households and the magic ingredient in classic gourmet cuisine, stock or broth made from bones of chicken, fish and beef builds strong bones, assuages sore throats, nurtures the sick, puts vigor in the step and sparkle in love life–so say grandmothers, midwives and healers. For chefs, stock is the magic elixir for making soul-warming soups and matchless sauces.
Stock contains minerals in a form the body can absorb easily-not just calcium but also magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur and trace minerals. It contains the broken down material from cartilage and tendons–stuff like chondroitin sulphates and glucosamine, now sold as expensive supplements for arthritis and joint pain.”
Please Note: This broth is very dense and does not need to be eaten at its full concentration. Feel free to stretch this delicious, mineral rice supplement with water, vegetable stock or whatever you choose.
*this item is packaged and sold in quarts

Blue Breeze™ Coconut Ghee is a true Green Pasture™ Products original. It is a perfect blend of organic virgin coconut oil and 100% grass fed ghee. Your family will enjoy the fresh, light, buttery taste that our western pallet appreciates on more foods than a straight coconut oil. The family cook will appreciate knowing that their family and guests will receive one of the finest combination of nutritional fats provided in one product.

Blue Breeze™ Coconut Ghee will have all the medium chain triglycerides: lauric, myristic and caprylic fatty acids found in Blue Breeze organic virgin coconut oil, in addition to a full spectrum of omega 3 fats and other important fatty acids found in 100% grass fed ghee such as CLA, butyric, stearic, palmitic, capric, etc.

Blue Breeze™ Coconut Ghee does not require refrigeration. A few uses include: Butter spread substitute, frying, baking, skin, and oil pulling (10-20 min mouth wash).

As with all the sacred food oils offered by Greent Pasture™ Products, Blue Breeze™ Coconut Ghee carries our RAW seal on the label. Look for this seal on all oils offered by Green Pasture™ Products.

** sold in 25.5oz containers

Spicy and sweet this is a classic 500 mile chai, guaranteed to help you go the distance (flavors of clove, cinnamon, ginger, black pepper) is what flavors this delicious kombucha.

Kombucha is a detoxifying beverage that offers a little energy lift due to its density of B vitamins. If you are new to drinking this delicious drink, please start in small amounts (6-8oz serving size) as some people experience a bit of a detox reaction at first.

** packaged and sold in 16oz bottles

This is Highland Oaks beef with our house citrus cure. It is a tangy, sour, bright and dry jerky! We leave on a bit of the fat to make this especially creamy and sweet too. This makes a great snack on the go, travels well, or try throwing a few bits into your soup or crumbling onto a salad. This cure is mild enough to be kid friendly and contains no sugar or soy.

***packaged and sold in 1/3 pound portions

This is a delightful vegan version of the probiotic drink you know with 30-50 strains of healthy bacteria and wild yeast (the good kind), just to add a little more variety to your beverage repertoire. This kefir comes from Culture Biota, a local company that shares my kitchen and values, and I am so pleased to add it to the menu…besides the fact that i drink it constantly!

**sold in 16oz bottles

This is another gorgeous product from Culture Biota. This is spiced lacto-fermented tomatoes. Makes a great topping for your lamb burgers or anywhere that you traditionally use ketchup.

**packaged and sold in 8oz. jars

• tastes like coffee but has no caffeine
• no acidity or bitterness
• sweetened with its own built-In fructose
• contains all the goodness of dandelions
• delicious iced
• dissolves instantly in hot or cold water
• can be used in any recipe which calls for instant coffee

Dandy Blend instant dandelion beverage is the only herbal coffee substitute in the United States that features both the health benefits of dandelion and the rich, full-bodied flavor, smoothness and texture of real coffee. Many say that, because it lacks bitterness and acidity, it actually tastes better than coffee.
Dandy Blend is made from the totally water-soluble extracts of three roasted herb roots: dandelion, chicory and sugar beet- and two roasted grains – barley and rye.  Nothing other than extracts of the three roasted roots and two roasted grains is in Dandy Blend. It is naturally sweetened by the fructose released from the breakdown of the storage starch inulin when the dandelion and chicory roots are roasted.  Because all sweetening comes from substances in the roots, Dandy Blend is a low carbohydrate beverage, with only 1 gram of carbohydrate per cup. All ingredients have been chosen because of the health benefits historically associated with them.  Every cup contains 630 mg. of dandelion and chicory extract.
**there are 25 single serving packets/box
**Also available in an 8.8 oz size

• tastes like coffee but has no caffeine
• no acidity or bitterness
• sweetened with its own built-In fructose
• contains all the goodness of dandelions
• delicious iced
• dissolves instantly in hot or cold water
• can be used in any recipe which calls for instant coffee

Dandy Blend instant dandelion beverage is the only herbal coffee substitute in the United States that features both the health benefits of dandelion and the rich, full-bodied flavor, smoothness and texture of real coffee. Many say that, because it lacks bitterness and acidity, it actually tastes better than coffee.
Dandy Blend is made from the totally water-soluble extracts of three roasted herb roots: dandelion, chicory and sugar beet- and two roasted grains – barley and rye.  Nothing other than extracts of the three roasted roots and two roasted grains is in Dandy Blend. It is naturally sweetened by the fructose released from the breakdown of the storage starch inulin when the dandelion and chicory roots are roasted.  Because all sweetening comes from substances in the roots, Dandy Blend is a low carbohydrate beverage, with only 1 gram of carbohydrate per cup. All ingredients have been chosen because of the health benefits historically associated with them.  Every cup contains 630 mg. of dandelion and chicory extract.
**also available in single serving packets, 25/box

Dream Date Dip and Drizzle Sauce with Cashews and Dates. A decadently sweet dipping sauce for fruit or raw vegetables. A dessert sauce that is both kid-friendly and popular among adults alike. Naturally sweet and creamy. (Unbelievably, naturally dairy-free).

Abby’s Table sauces are free of gluten, dairy, soy, wheat and casein-free. They are made of completely pure, fresh, and whole ingredients. YES, these are free of gluten, soy, dairy, and wheat – but they are also free of preservatives, additives and any of the fake stuff we gluten-free, dairy-free types so often see in products made just for us. Like all of Abby’s cooking, these sauces fill you up with healthful, pure ingredients while keeping your taste buds very, very happy.

by Jessica Prentice of Three Stone Hearth. Following the 13 lunar cycles of an agrarian year, Full Moon Feast is a guide through the cycles of time, from the mid-winter Hunger Moon and the the springtime sweetness of the Sap Moon to the bounty of The Moon When Salmon return to Earth in autumn. Each Chapter includes recipes that display the richly satisfying flavors of foods tied to the ancient rhythm of the seasons.

These are the classic coconut date truffles you have come to love with organic Italian prunes from Raynblest Farm spiced with Star Anise from Mountain Rose Herbs. Aromatic, sweet and slightly tangy, a real treat! These truffles are great for when you need a pick-me-up or simply something creamy and delicious to savor. The fat in the coconut butter slows the way your body will digest the sugars – perfect for a wee bit of energy in the afternoon or even before/after a meal to make sure you feel satisfied. 
 
**packaged and sold in half pint portions, usually about 6-7 truffles, each one is a serving.

Mighty Greens is the perfect marinara sauce. Full of the dark green leafies that we now know are full of vitamins, minerals and beta carotenes. This sauces goes well mixed in beans, over fish and freshly over vegetables. It’s great warm or cold!

Abby’s Table sauces are free of gluten, dairy, soy, wheat and casein-free. They are made of completely pure, fresh, and whole ingredients. YES, these are free of gluten, soy, dairy, and wheat – but they are also free of preservatives, additives and any of the fake stuff we gluten-free, dairy-free types so often see in products made just for us. Like all of Abby’s cooking, these sauces fill you up with healthful, pure ingredients while keeping your taste buds very, very happy/

The book that started it all. “The cookbook that challenges politically correct nutrition and the diet dictocrats.” Recalling the culinary  traditions of our ancestors and looking ahead to a future of robust good health for young and old, Nourishing Traditions offers modern families a fascinating guide to wise food choices and proper preparation techniques. Nutiriton researcher Sally Fallon unites the wisdom of the ancients with the latest independent and accurate scientific research. Contains over 700 recipes!

This is a vegan chocolate-avocado pudding. So very very delicious, a single spoonful is never enough. great alone, this pudding makes a lovely dip for fruit or serve over ice cream.

Abby’s Table sauces are free of gluten, dairy, soy, wheat and casein-free. They are made of completely pure, fresh, and whole ingredients. YES, these are free of gluten, soy, dairy, and wheat – but they are also free of preservatives, additives and any of the fake stuff we gluten-free, dairy-free types so often see in products made just for us. Like all of Abby’s cooking, these sauces fill you up with healthful, pure ingredients while keeping your taste buds very, very happy/

Nude Ranch Dip, Dressing and Spread with Cashews and Herbs. A salad dressing and dip used exactly in places where ranch dressing might be preferred – but without all the yucky stuff like preservatives and chemicals. Dairy-free and creamy as ever. A favorite among kids and adults alike.

Abby’s Table sauces are free of gluten, dairy, soy, wheat and casein-free. They are made of completely pure, fresh, and whole ingredients. YES, these are free of gluten, soy, dairy, and wheat – but they are also free of preservatives, additives and any of the fake stuff we gluten-free, dairy-free types so often see in products made just for us. Like all of Abby’s cooking, these sauces fill you up with healthful, pure ingredients while keeping your taste buds very, very happy.

Nutty for Ginger Dip and Cooking Sauce with Almonds and Ginger. A dipping sauce for Asian spring rolls, a perfect addition to rice noodle dishes, and a tangy and sweet kick for gluten-free potstickers or crudités. Also delightful as a simple cooking sauce with chicken or vegetable stir-fry.

Abby’s Table sauces are free of gluten, dairy, soy, wheat and casein-free. They are made of completely pure, fresh, and whole ingredients. YES, these are free of gluten, soy, dairy, and wheat – but they are also free of preservatives, additives and any of the fake stuff we gluten-free, dairy-free types so often see in products made just for us. Like all of Abby’s cooking, these sauces fill you up with healthful, pure ingredients while keeping your taste buds very, very happy.

This is adapted from a native coastal Salish recipe. SmokedChinook (King) Salmon is creamed with a variety of delicious fats and bit of citrus and juniper. This makes a delicious dip, snack, spread or condiment. This is very moist and abundant in omega 3 fatty acids and Vitamin D3.

**packaged and sold in 8oz containers

This is a fermented black tea that is steeped in rosebuds and cardamom. It’s dry, slightly sweet and the best floral rounded & slightly spicy taste around. Enjoy!

Kombucha is a detoxifying beverage that offers a little energy lift due to its density of B vitamins. If you are new to drinking this delicious drink, please start in small amounts (6-8oz serving size) as some people experience a bit of a detox reaction at first.

**packaged and sold in 16oz. bottles

This is a beautiful product by Green Pasture. Blue Ice Skate Liver Oil is your best choice for cartilage fish oil. Skate Liver oil is complete in its offering of many nutrients in a similar balance as cod liver oil. Unlike shark liver oil, skate liver oil is abundant in vitamins A, D, E, K and the full range of omega fatty acids, plus all the unique nutrients found in shark liver oil such as chondroitin, squalene, and alkoxglycerols.

Nutritional Highlights: EPA/DHA, Quinones, Omega 3, 6, 7,9
Product Information
Premium Quality, Fermented, Skate Liver Oil, Capsules

Type: capsules
Weight: 0.35 lb. (120 caps)
Servings: 60 (per container)
Ingredients: Fermented skate liver oil, organic antioxidant (cranberry seed oil), unbleached beeswax (as thickener). Capsules are made from plant cellulose.

Turmeric Coconut Simmer Sauce, Dip and Dressing. A perfect sauce for a quick curry with pumpkin, vegetables, fish or meat. Great stirred into soups or mixed with rice or noodles. A very versatile and anti-inflammatory sauce.

Abby’s Table sauces are free of gluten, dairy, soy, wheat and casein-free. They are made of completely pure, fresh, and whole ingredients. YES, these are free of gluten, soy, dairy, and wheat – but they are also free of preservatives, additives and any of the fake stuff we gluten-free, dairy-free types so often see in products made just for us. Like all of Abby’s cooking, these sauces fill you up with healthful, pure ingredients while keeping your taste buds very, very happy.

This is a dense tradtional german bread made with rye berries. This bread comes from Fressen Artisan Bakery and pairs beautifully with the rillettes, sauerkraut and either of the soups. Enjoy with a thick slab of butter!

**sold in half loaves