MissoulaFoodie

By GREG PATENT for the Missoulian
Agave (pronounced ah-GAH-vay) is a sweet syrup from the same plant that tequila comes from. It’s just now making headway in Missoula, but when I can find bottles of organic blue agave in Costco, I know it’s become mainstream. Agave’s been known for thousands of years in Mexico, where it’s [...]

You can grill anything if you want to. Bread, pizza, beer-can chicken, you name it, I can grill it. The barbecue is a phenomenal tool for cooking food a variety of ways, so when I discovered that you can make a traditional Spanish Paella on the grill, we started eating Paella more often.
If you don’t [...]

I read this article about making sushi at home in the New York Times. And it brings up a really good point, especially if you live here in the seafood deprived part of the Great Northwest. Namely that you can make really great sushi without having a Pike’s Place Market in your back yard.
My sisters [...]

After a long day judging at the Garden City BrewFest, I had an invitation to join friends at a benefit for Community Restorative Justice, a great local non profit geared toward helping youth offenders face their victims in order to lower the rates of secondary offenses.
Knowing my palate was completely blown from tasting through like [...]