Thought I’d post a roundup of good eats — just a mishmash of good food we’ve made at home. It’s been a busy few months but we’ve still managed to cook up some tasty food….

Grilled scallions and radish with homemade hazelnut romesco.

White Pine pancakes with maple syrup. Mmmm.

Went camping on the Clackamas and our camp neighbors gave us some of their homemade carne asada!

Homemade pesto pasta with snap peas from the front yard and chorizo.

More potato tacos because these lovely friends brought homegrown spuds.

This year's mostly softneck garlic harvest.

Yard Fresh Pt. 5
Yard Fresh Pt. 4
Yard Fresh Pt. 3
Yard Fresh Pt. 2
Yard Fresh Pt. 1

All work and no play makes Liz a...freak. Actually it makes me hightail it to Oaks Park with my good friends.

The past several weeks have been a little nutty but the best kind of nutty — extra special hazelnut butter nutty — because of the book. I’ve done so many book events now some of them are blending into one another in my memory. I think because of that that it’s high time I post about them.

Oh, and another good reason for this post is that there’s a great event taking place tomorrow night — Tuesday, August 10th — that I want to tell you about. Friends of Family Farmers has found a new monthly InFARMation space at Holocene. FOFF was hosting this monthly PDX agricultural event at Roots Brewing Co. but they closed shop (so sad) and now FOFF is now hosting its InFARMations every second Tuesday of the month at Holocene. Read more about InFARMation here.

I’ll be at InFARMation tomorrow night — Tuesday, August 10th — sitting at the back selling my book and talking with folks from 6:30pm-8:30pm. This month’s InFARMation is all about the Eater’s Bill of Rights. InFARMations are free and run from 5:30-8:30pm (talk/presentations from 6:30-8pm) with food and drink for purchase. Should be great. Stop by if you can.

Since July 1st here’s a bit of what I’ve been up to with book events that I haven’t already written about…

This year’s Mississippi Ave. Street Fair was a great time…

I got to hang out all day with this fine fellow -- Paul Gerald -- at the Mississippi Ave. St. Fair. Paul is author of a bunch of books that I love and his booth is Stumptown Scribes.

Paul's hiking and camping books along with my food/drink book are a good mix. He's working on the second edition of Breakfast in Bridgetown at the moment.

They expected 30,000-plus at Miss. Ave. St. Fair -- think they got it.

Overlook Village Celebration was fun too…

Stumping it with Stumptown Scribes and Paul Gerald at the Overlook Village Celebration.

The Powell’s book event with Nick Zukin, Sarah Hart, Steve Jones and John Cleary was a dream come true…

Doesn't get better than a book event at Powell's...

(L-R) John Cleary, Sarah Hart, Me, Steve Jones, Nick Zukin at Powell's.

Full house at Powell's City of Books Food Lover's Guide to Portland book event.

The first of more to come from John Kallas.

So much has happened since my last post. Most importantly Monday night was the Food Lover’s Guide to Portland book event at Powell’s with Nick Zukin, Sarah Hart, Steve Jones and John Cleary. It was fantastic even though I choked a bit at the beginning from nerves and emotion. I know now that it’s possible to almost cry out of happiness and fear at the same time. I didn’t but was right on the verge. Thanks to everyone who came out. It was a wild, weird and perfectly wangy (had to be there) Portland food time and I loved every second of it. Except maybe the five seconds that I just told you about. Nah, I even loved those. I’ll put up some photos from that here soon.

Another big recent event for me was my book launch party on July 1st. One special someone who showed up was local John Kallas — author of Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate. He had fun at my party and two days later I had a good time at his book launch party. John opened up the backyard of his North Portland home and all sorts of people showed up to celebrate and buy the book and also check out the wild edibles in John’s backyard. Over the years I’ve taken a lot of John’s workshops and I’m a big fan. I can’t wait to spend more time with his new book. Here are some snapshots from the party…

((If you’re at The Bite of Oregon this weekend come by and say “Hi” to me on Saturday from 1-3pm. I’ll be at a table near the chef stage signing books.))

John Kallas signing books at his book launch party for Edible Wild Plants.

Gather 'round foragers...

Super sweet edible wild columbine in John's backyard.

Wild mustard and other wild greens in John's backyard.

Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate
by John Kallas
2010, Gibbs Smith Publisher
Paperback $24.99