Recipe: Spring Vegetable Pasta Salad

I have been celebrating the arrival of spring by loading up on seasonal ingredients. This recipe is highly adaptable depending on what stage of the season you are in and what fresh produce is available to you. This also holds up really well and…

Recipe: Spring Vichyssoise

This beautiful soup was one that we made last spring when we received a CSA box that was bursting with spring greens. This was the perfect way to use up what we had and enjoy a delicious, seasonal, bright meal. We topped the soup…

Recipes: Rhubarb Two Ways

Post by Olivia Martino Blodgett, Personal Chef and Registered Dietitian One of the really fun things about moving into a new house is discovering what plants the previous owners left behind for you.  Our garden just sprouted the most beautiful tulips, rhodenendrun, daffodils and…

Top 5 Tips To Be Your Best You This Spring

Top 5 Tips To Be Your Best You This Spring Written by Miah Williamsen, MScN  (August 2018) Miah is a nutrition graduate student at  National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR and intern at Nourish Northwest. She is passionate about teaching others how…

Recipe: Shaved Asparagus Salad

Post by Olivia Martino, Registered Dietitian and Owner, Nourish Northwest In preparation for a lecture we are giving tonight about eating in season, I started thinking about when I first learned of this concept when I was living in upstate New York.  I understood…

Spring Clean Your Diet: A 7 Day Challenge

Post by Olivia Martino, Registered Dietitian and Owner, Nourish Northwest I have been dreading and procrastinating  doing spring cleaning in my house.  The task just feels overwhelming and the last way I want to spend a full weekend day, especially with our random bursts…

Recipe: Strawberry Cheescake (Vegan and Raw)

Post by Olivia Martino, Registered Dietitian and Co-Owner, Nourish Northwest Our first taste of summer has hit the produce aisles and home gardens!  I’m talking about those beautiful, deep red,  juicy strawberries that are so sweet and delicious.  My first bite of one of…

Recipe: Carrot Top Pesto

Post By Olivia Martino, Registered Dietitian and Co-Owner, Nourish Northwest We are often asked what our nutrition philosophy is.  We’ve got a long answer to this question, but the short one is two simple words: whole foods.  This means eating the food as it is…

From forest to plate: A Feast of Nettles

Post by Olivia Martino, Registered Dietitian and Co-Owner, Nourish Northwest My grad school experience was very different from many other dietitians.  Instead of learning the guidelines of the Food Guide Pyramid and how many servings of dairy you were supposed to eat a day,…

Recipe: Garlic Scape Pesto… Do it Now!!!!

Post By Olivia Martino, Co-owner and Registered Dietitian, Nourish Northwest I was surprised and delighted to see that garlic scapes are still on the shelves but was told by the produce department at New Seasons that this is the last week for them.  We…

Foraged Foods

Post by Olivia Martino, Co-owner and Registered Dietitian, Nourish Northwest This is a really fun time of year to go to the farmer’s market.  The vibrancy of red strawberries gives us a feeling of excitement and anticipation about what’s coming.  But the farmer’s market…

Mindfulness and Meditation

  Post by Olivia Martino, Registered Dietitian and Co-owner of Nourish Northwest “Spring” in Portland feels like a state of limbo to me.  We’re neither in winter or summer.  Some days it’s rainy and some days it’s sunny, and I just can’t seem to…

My Eight Day Spring Cleanse

Post by Olivia Martino, Registered Dietitian and Co-Owner of Nourish Northwest   The sun has been out a couple of times this month, and to most Portlanders, this means it’s time for shorts and to sit outside and drink beer all day.  While I…