SPANISH STYLE GARBANZOS WITH GREENS & MANCHEGO Inspired by the tapas served in Spain, this simple dish shows that beans and greens are universal. WHAT YOU NEED Cooked garbanzos* Bianco Dinapoli tomatoes Extra Virgin Olive Oil Sea Salt Onion Garlic Tender greens such as turnip greens, arugula, spinach, or chard** Smoked pimentón paprika Manchego cheese Cured…
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Grilling Naked
A GRILLED VEGETABLE MANIFESTO Summer’s almost here, and the backyard fires are burning. Now’s a good time for my annual manifesto about cooking vegetables over the flames: Don’t put any oil on the vegetables before you grill them. Despite what every single thing ever written about grilling vegetables says, do not “lightly brush,” “gently toss,”…
Introducing Pantry Produce! Plus, let’s welcome back Grano!
Most of us have been hunkered down at home for more than a month and are getting tired of our own cooking. Even with the extra time to take on more elaborate preparations, uncertainty generates kitchen ennui, so it’s easier to cook something familiar and easy again and again. After a while, that favorite chicken…
Piccone’s Butcher Box at Real Good Food
FRESH BUTCHERED HERITAGE HOGS PRE-ORDER NOW AVAILABLE We’ve partnered with our friends from Piccone’s Corner to bring you a weekly heritage hog butcher box from Austin Piccone’s Wallow and Root Farm. Austin Piccone, along with his team of cooks and sausage makers, put their butcher hats back on to cut Italian-inspired chops and roasts, cure salami and make…
You asked, we listened!
While some of us never get tired of beans, rice, and pasta, you might want a break from your basic pantry staples. Mix up your pandemic cooking a little with whole grains. Cooked whole grains can be swapped for pasta or rice in most preparations, they’re really good in composed salads, make a great breakfast…
Real Good Delivery !
Dear Friends, We want you to stay safe at home, so we’re offering local delivery to addresses within 10 miles of our store. We’ll call when we arrive and leave your order on your porch or someplace outside that you designate. To continue protecting our staff and community, we ask you to remain inside until…
Let’s Feast! Let’s Party!
While the little ear-shaped pasta from Puglia called orecchiette is often served with rapini around southern Italy, most of the Pugliese people were too poor to add meat to the pasta they ate daily. As immigrants from the region adapted their cooking to America’s meaty abundance, they added pork. So we’ve been eating orecchiette with…
So much GOOD stuff happening this weekend!
While they might be called yams in the produce section, the pointy ended tubers with bright orange flesh are really sweet potatoes. True yams grow in Africa and rarely make it here. Sweet potatoes are loaded with an enzyme called amylase, which we use to digest food but also converts starches to sugar. To get the…
You’ll never look at squash the same way again + Pop-ups, Portland Cocktail Week & Sarah Owens!
Poor winter squash. It might be the most misunderstood vegetable, and, in fact, it’s really a fruit (because seeds). While Native Americans depended on it, our colonizing ancestors hated it and needed another indigenous food, maple syrup, to get it down. For years acorn squash was the only winter squash you’d find in the market,…
Real Good November : Our monthly event roundup!
We love the extra space, bigger kitchen, location, parking, and light of our new home on NE Couch. And we’ve discovered it’s a great place for a party! Check out this month’s events. A Real Good Apple 1-4 pm We’re teaming up with Portland Nursery, Lauretta Jeans Bakery, and Mill A Cider to host Monica…