Food

For a taste of the Palouse and a bit of history, consider picking up the “Artisans’ Cookbook: A Palette of Favorite Recipes from the Artisans at the Dahmen Barn.” The artists, board members and friends of the unique Uniontown, Wash., barn have compiled their favorite recipes into the little spiral-bound book, which sells for $17.95, plus shipping and handling. The idea grew from the potluck meals at the converted barn where resident artisans and board members share favorite dishes and recipes.

There’s just something about Mom’s casserole. It’s comforting to tuck into the food we enjoyed as a child. And many cooks want to share the feeling of love and comfort they get from eating it with their children, by making the same dish.

Heart-Shaped Pizzas for Sale - Feb. 12-15. $1 from the sale of each pizza will benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. Paper hearts are also available for $1 and will benefit the foundation. Boston’s The Gourmet Pizza Restaurant and Sports Bar, Spokane Valley. (509) 927-4284.

The economy, weather and dwindling cash have led owners of Le Piastre in Coeur d’Alene to close the doors – at least temporarily. Chef Adam Hegsted says he and his partners are considering whether they can reopen the restaurant, which featured tapas-style small plates inspired by Parisian fare and made with local, seasonal ingredients.

Wishbone first introduced spritz bottles of dressing. Now, it has a new line of salad toppers that would never work as a spray. Bountifuls dressings are packed with chunks of vegetables and herbs, but little fat – “so bountiful, there is no room for fat,” it says on the bottles. Each dressing has 35 calories or fewer and less than 1 gram of fat per serving.

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Women’s and Children’s Free Restaurant - Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 4:15-5:45 p.m. and Fridays, 12:30-2:30 p.m. with take-out from 1-3 p.m. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 1620 N. Monroe St. (509) 324-1995. Compass Club Meeting - A women’s club for introducing newcomers to the area. Event will feature a no-host bar and hors d’oeuvres. Guests welcome. Reservations are required by Thursday for Tuesday event. Cancellations due by Friday. 6 p.m., Glover Mansion, 321 W. Eighth Ave. $25 per person. (509) 465-4043.

Dolores Maier, of Spokane, was desperate to find one of her favorite recipes for a Dorothy Dean orange roll she’d clipped from the newspaper some time ago. What made this one unusual, she recalled, was that the rolls were topped with whipping cream mixed with brown sugar, and then baked.

Find homemade meals, pies and sweets at a tiny little cafe near the corner of Ash and Northwest Boulevard. Mother-daughter team Marilyn Blair and Julie Becker recently opened The Sweetie Pie Cafe, 1724 W. Carlisle Ave. The cozy little cottage seats just 15 people at a time.

OK, Valentine’s Day is still a couple of weeks away. Take a deep breath – you still have time to avoid a potentially disastrous wine mistake. Let’s face it, choosing the right bottle (along with the card, the gift, the meal, etc.) is a little more important on Feb. 14 than on, say, any other day of the year.

Bread Not for the Birds

Packaged for One

More than 125 products have been recalled in a salmonella-and-peanuts investigation that keeps getting bigger, federal health officials said Wednesday.