Bok Choy Babe
words LUCY OHLSEN I’ve never cooked bok choy, but I’m always drawn in to the bok choy booth at the Eugene Farmer’s Market. Two platters of bright, colorful greens draw me in with their sweet garlicky wafts and sesame-seed polka dots, and I can never resist. This week, I actually bought some bok choy to [...]
Cooky for Springtime
words LUCY OHLSEN Picnic season is rolling in to Eugene. It’s time to break out the Birkies and free-flowing dresses. Time to dust off the old sun blocking peepers, hop on a finally dry bike seat and coast though the daisy littered, daphne odora-perfumed city that is so much more than a home for ducks. Snacks [...]
Untraditional Pizza Pie
words LUCY OHLSEN Glenn Ohlsen, a mild-mannered second generation Dane, grew up in rural Oregon in the early 1900s. He always felt like he was born a century too late. He wanted to be one of those pioneers of the frontier, bravely slugging across the country in a quaint but efficient covered wagon. He never [...]
Earth Mama Salad
words and photos LUCY OHLSEN It all begins with a venture to the Saturday Market in downtown Eugene. The four or five lonely little booths aren’t so inviting if you’re looking for a place to chill. But oh, the beets! The bleeding hearts of the vegetable kingdom! The ruby red jewels of the earth! My [...]
Whirled Pies Pizzeria
words NOAH DEWITT A new pizzeria called Whirled Pies (a stretch of a pun on world peace) opened up over winter break in the Jefferson Westside neighborhood, taking the place of community chill spot Monroe Street Café, which closed down last spring. Halle-fucking-lujah. The new joint has potential to both heal the heartbreak that Jeff [...]
Seedy Power Scones
words and photos LUCY OHLSEN Scones are generally what I long for when I peer into any worthwhile pastry cabinet. The oversized, sugar-glazed, crumbly American scone is guaranteed to sit heavily in my tummy. There are always those lardful days for heavy scones. For other days, these Seedy Power Scones get me out of bed [...]
Rainy Day Tomato Soup
words and photos LUCY OHLSEN It’s been a week of perpetual wetness, and the general state of things is soggy. It is easy to slip into a dangerous state of chilled, gray sky irritability. It’s also easy to whip up a batch of tomato soup and slurp your sorrows away. This roasted tomato and red [...]
Adventures in dairyland
Nancy’s yogurt has recently become one of my top tummy teasers. My personal favorite is the fruit-on-top yogurt, with the cherry fruit. After eating one or twenty cups of yogurt, relishing in each slippery spoonful, I noticed on the container that Nancy’s creamery is only a few miles away from my spoon. An excursion appeared [...]
Cold Bowl of Summer
Warm weather and sun calls for food that is refreshing and doesn’t sit too heavily in the gut. Nothing’s worse than running carefree through a field of daisies, only to be suddenly incapacitated due to a surplus of fatty, slow-settling calories erupting back out of your stomach. As an avid lover of prancing through fields [...]
Pint of Love
What’s better than a big hunk of grapefruit for breakfast? A lot of things. But if you’re in the tart citrus delicious arena, why not go for a pint of blood orange sorbet? You get the best of so many worlds. The taste is one of those tastes where you’re forced to close your eyes for [...]
Morning Glory
It’s 5:30 and I don’t want to drink any more bad coffee. I can’t stop thinking about how bad this badness is in front of me. Dux Bistro, I’m sorry, but you just can’t fulfill my needs. Your joe is like liquid dust reheated in a microwave several times over. I’m not one to pour [...]
Variety Show
Yogurt Xtreme (the new frozen yogurt shop on 13th St.) isn’t exactly anything special. The frozen yogurt tastes like frozen yogurt from every other yogurt institution. The peanut butter flavor did melt me a little bit inside (especially when combined with fresh bananas, hot fudge, and whipped cream), but the place itself awakened no raving [...]
No Bananas?
I’ve always had mixed feelings about bananas. The taste has never been anything particularly tantalizing to my tongue, and the texture inspires no excitement across my neural pathways. Plus, they are one of the most awkward foods to eat around people whose maturity levels are not around the sophisticated level. In fact, I hardly ever [...]
Pie Love
Cupcakes, hold on to your frosting hats and paper lining coats, because your little fluffy minds are about to be blown. I don’t care how much sanding sugar or pastel fondant is atop your sweet heads. You’ll never measure up to the food trend that’s about to displace you. Pie is more than a three-letter [...]
Never Waffle Over Waffles.
Breakfast has a special little nook in my soul. The familiar smell of frying fatty batter in fatty butter triggers endorphins to start coursing through my veins like I’ve just run a marathon. It’s almost a waste to put breakfast in the morning, when so often I’m not fully conscious and up to appreciating the [...]
