Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies

Ingredients: unsalted butter4 Tbl.soft white sugar½ cup brown sugar½ cup peanut butter1 cupcreamy or chunky, it's your call (I like Adam's brand) whole egg1at room temperature unbleached all-purpose flour1¼ cups Kosher salt¼ teaspoon baking powder1 tablespoon jam ...

Red, part one: Jam and Cobbler

     In an undergraduate class at Portland State, straightforwardly titled Persuasion, I formally learned that scarcity makes things more desirable: eclipses of the sun and moon, real Love, Mason Jennings' acoustic album, Simple Life. For me, ...

My Inner Angler

I have been to a river. Annually, my family meets somewhere between Eugene and Portland - my folks take a few days to drive and my brother tucks away his projects in Brooklyn and arrives by ...