Food writer, food stylist, recipe tester, cookbook editor, podcast producer/host are a few of the creative hats Donna Britt wears. Donna loves to hike, paddle board and spend quality time with family and friends. Oh, and she also collects cookbooks and cast iron cooking vessels.
Banana bread is one of the most popular kinds of quick bread – a bread that is leavened with a chemical leavening agent (baking powder/baking soda) rather than a biological one such as yeast. Bananas first appeared in the United States in the 1870s. They began to appear as ingredients in recipes a while later. […]
If you’ve never had a tuna salad without mayonnaise, it’s time to try it. Replacing the mayo with olive oil and adding in avocado, fresh citrus and cilantro takes the classic salad up a notch or two. I also like adding just a tiny bit of jalapeño pepper for extra depth of flavor but if […]
The thing about being a food writer is that once people realize that’s what you do for a living, they immediately ask for recommendations on where and what to eat. I always feel self-conscious about that because what if I recommend a certain restaurant or a certain menu item and then the person goes there […]
It’s personal. The condiment of choice for a burger or plant-based burger comes down to individual tastes. My informal poll came up split between mayo and mustard. Ketchup was also in the running. Then there are BBQ sauce and jams and all kinds of aiolis. And that’s just the condiments. What we like in addition […]
Burgers: one of the most popular, most enduring foods in America. Burgers elevated: the mission of Mountain Burger. Northwest Crossing’s Mountain Burger opened in September, with the idea being to reinvent the iconic American burger joint. The plan included offering locally sourced ingredients, meat and plant-based alternatives along with healthy salads and creative cocktails, all […]
It’s been years now since my Italian mother-in-law asked me about baking some Easter bread for her. I had never heard of Easter bread and wasn’t sure what she was talking about. But between her description and an online search I learned so much about bread and Easter and worldly traditions I had never known […]
This week marks the end of what we call “Birthday Month” in my family. We celebrate five birthdays in the month of March! It’s kind of nuts but we try to have fun with it and I try to make special foods or bake favorite cakes for each person. Some years I do better than […]
It’s official – the first week of spring is upon us, and what better way to celebrate the changing of the seasons than with food. In the southern U.S. where I grew up, springtime came right on schedule. By the time Easter rolled around daffodils were blooming and bright green shoots were beginning to burst […]
It started as a side project experiment five years ago. Elijah Myers and his wife Antonia got into baking through the restaurant industry and discovered they both love to bake…so much so, that in 2018 they decided to see what happened if they sold some of their baked goods at the Northwest Crossing Farmers Market […]
Corned Beef and Cabbage is a traditional American St. Patrick’s Day dish and it’s likely that culinary custom came from back in the day when Irish immigrants substituted beef for pork and cabbage for potatoes because of cost. Yep, it was less expensive to eat corned beef with cabbage than it was to prepare pork […]
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