OX Restaurant's Hazelnut-Brown Butter Torte With Honey-Chamomile Ice Cream and "Honeycomb" Candy

Serve with seasonal berries or fresh figs. From Ox’s Greg Denton and Gabrielle Quinonez Denton.

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Salem’s Wandering Aengus is a leader in American cider. Driven to revive a beverage once ubiquitous in North America but pushed almost to extinction by prohibition, founders James Kohn and Nick Gunn began fermenting, blending, and bottling juice from rare heirloom cider apples in 2005. The result was unlike anything most people had ever tasted: sweet, tart, earthy, perfumed, complex, somewhere between beer and wine but different than either. Now, 10 years later, Wandering Aengus’ harvest is more bountiful than ever.

Fruit & The Cidermaker

A national cider renaissance is underway and it’s firmly rooted in the Northwest. Oregon cidery Wandering Aengus is at the heart of this success story.

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Out of every 100 hazelnuts harvested in the United States, 99 are grown in Oregon. The nuts’ unmistakable flavor and richness is finding its way into everything from craft beer to hazelnut-finished prosciutto.

Fall Harvest: Oregon Hazelnuts

Oregon’s hazelnut industry, once seriously threatened by Eastern Filbert Blight, is now entering a golden age.

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Garlic Crusted Filet Mignon With Stuffed Yukon Gold Potatoes & Red Wine Bordelaise

From the Stephanie Inn Dining Room in Cannon Beach.  Chef Aaron Bedard’s fresh take on a classic cut.

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Summer Berry Mille-Feuille

A delicate layering of filo dough, lemon curd and fresh berries from chef John Newman of Newman’s 988 in Cannon Beach.

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CSA members get a hearty weekly basket of seasonal produce, from spring spinach and edible flowers to carrots and winter squash. Diggin’ Roots Farm plans to include meat, dairy, and eggs into CSA shares in the future – a full spectrum of the farm’s bounty. The CSA season runs from mid-June through Thanksgiving, with pick-up locations in Portland, Silverton, and on the farm in Molalla.

Finding Home

A young couple buys 50 acres near Molalla, Oregon and sets down roots as organic farmers.  Now Diggin’ Roots Farms operates a bountiful CSA.

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Striped Sea Bass

From chef Annie Cuggino from the Veritable Quandary in Portland.

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Squid Ink Spaghetti and Lobster

Pair this pasta appetizer with a Pinot Blanc from the Willamette Valley.  From the Veritable Quandary in Portland.

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Chipotle & Maple Glazed Quails

From the Veritable Quandary in Portland.  Pair with a Willamette Valley Pinot Noir.

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Veritable Quandary

Portland’s storied restaurant, the Veritable Quandary, has been a local favorite for more than 40 years.

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Olive harvest begins late autumn, usually just after wine grapes. The olives are often hand-picked at night—the freshness of the fruit translates to the oil.

Oregon Olive Mill: From Tree to Table

What began as a grand experiment – the planting of 11,000 olive trees – is now forging the path to estate-grown and milled Oregon olive oil.

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Truffled Crab Melt

Pair with Cabernet Franc. From Paley’s Place and Imperial in Portland.

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Oeufs Brouillés à la Truffe

Portland Chef Vitaly Paley learned this recipe while working at a Michelin-starred restaurant in France.  The egg’s sole purpose is to express the truffle flavor.

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Buckwheat Crepes Stuffed with Turnips and Truffles

Chef Vitaly Paley of Paley’s Place and Imperial in Portland offers this truffle-centric recipe.

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Truffled Hen Leg with Leeks, Spaghettini, Black Pepper & Truffle Butter

Chef Jason French of Ned Ludd in Portland suggests pairing this dish with a Willamette Valley Chardonnay or Pinot Noir.

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Angel Hair Pasta with Maine Lobster Truffle Sauce

Use fresh truffles or truffle butter in this recipe from the Joel Palmer House in Oregon’s Wine Country.

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Of the 30 Northwest truffle species, only three are harvested for culinary use - two whites and a black. Czarnecki and Paley are in search of the winter white (Tuber oregonense), which at its peak carries aromas of earth, herbs, garlic and a petroleum-like note.

Hunting the Great Oregon Truffle

Join Oregon chefs Christopher Czarnecki and Vitaly Paley as they venture into the woods of Willamette Valley to search for the great Oregon Truffle.

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Bill Taylor with his late father, Justin Taylor, the patriarch of Taylor Shellfish Farms, who could be found walking the tide flats most daylight tides up until the age of 90.

Life on the Flats

South Puget Sound is home to some of the most famous oyster appellations in the U.S. We visit Taylor Shellfish Farms on Totten Inlet, now in its fifth generation as a family-owned business.

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Smoked Oysters in Cognac Cream

Created by chef Ryan Gaul of Southpark Seafood in Portland.

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Oyster Poorboy Sandwich

From Portland’s Bistro Marquee (now closed).

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