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Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009

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Food for Thought: Use guide to eat your way through Oregon

By Loretto J. Hulse, Herald staff writer

Planning a trip to Oregon? Why not include a few culinary stops too. After all, everyone has to eat.

Travel Oregon, the state's travel guide, has a new website -- www.traveloregon.com/ bounty -- where you can find food, wine, beer and other events to plan your trip around.

You can also search for artisan cheese makers, produce markets, fishmongers, places to forage for truffles and berries, chocolate shops, bakeries, mills and other interesting and tasty places to stop.

Want to catch your own salmon or other seafood? There's a list of places to go, where to rent equipment and boats and who will pack it up to take home.

And to whet your appetite, there are 75 recipes to try, all featuring products made, grown or produced in Oregon.

Herb club meets

The Tri-Cities Herb Club meets from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 21 at the First Methodist Church, at Dayton Street and Kennewick Avenue.

The program will be on cooking with rubs, herbs and flavored oils. Recipes will be provided along with ingredients to make the blends. There also will be a short presentation on thyme.

For more information, call 627-1593.

Mocha Motive wins again

Mocha Motive, a Kennewick espresso business, has won the Second Harvest Tri-Cities' Buck-A-Cup September promotion. This is the second time the business has won the traveling trophy for raising the most money through beverage sales.

"All the money raised remains in Benton and Franklin counties," said Kathye Kilgore, director of Second Harvest, adding that every dollar donated will provide six pounds of food for those in need.

Second Harvest Tri-Cities presented the trophy, plus a getaway package to Wildhorse Resort and Casino, to Mocha Motive on Monday.

For more information about Second Harvest, call 585-3924 or go to www.2-harvest.org/8/tri-cities.

New read

The book: Chocolate for Breakfast by Barbara Passino, owner of Oak Knoll Inn in California's Napa Valley.

Cost: $40

Best for: More than 100 easy-to-follow recipes and full color photographs will help you create unique breakfast menus with a chocolate twist to pamper that special someone.

Get more: Read more book reviews and literature news in Sunday's Desert Living.

*Loretto J. Hulse: 582-1513; lhulse@tricityherald.com. To receive a recipe via e-mail each Tuesday register at tricityherald. com and click on newsletters. If you already are registered, click on edit account and newsletters to select Recipe of the Week. This exclusive recipe does not appear in the newspaper.



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