ABOUT M.O.M.

Through her travels, Chef Lisa came to realize that the best meals of a country are not found in its restaurants. They’re found in its homes, made with love by mothers cooking for their families. So, in addition to Mother’s regular menu where she serves food from mothers around the world, Chef Lisa highlights a different mother each month and features some of her special dishes.

The special mother is called the Mother of the Month (or M.O.M.™), and her photograph, story and menu take a prominent place at the beginning of Mother’s menu. We choose a mother that allows us to take advantage of the seasonal availability of ingredients, such as a Greek mother in the summer months and a Polish mother in the winter months.

If you’d like to nominate a mother to be the M.O.M.™, CLICK HERE and tell us something about her and her special dishes.

M.O.M. Menu

Laurie Wolf

Laurie Wolf

Lunch & Dinner Starter

Roasted Cauliflower Steak
oven-roasted cauliflower with romesco sauce
(roasted red peppers, tomatoes, bread, almonds, olive oil & herbs),
topped with feta cheese

15

Lunch

Pork Schnitzel Sandwich
pan-fried breaded pork cutlet, swiss cheese, french roll, arugula,
dijon tartar sauce, served with house-made french fries

20

Dinner

Carlton Farms Pork Loin Milanese
breaded and pan-fried pork loin cutlet topped with an arugula, tomato &
red onion salad, linguine aglio olio (garlic & olive oil)

28

Dessert

Russian Cream
rich, creamy eggless custard topped with fresh local strawberry compote

10

Special Cocktail

Bees Knees
Freeland Spirit gin, lemon, honey, served up with a twist

14

 

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CURRENT M.O.M. STORY

Laurie Wolf

Laurie Wolf

mother of the month (m.o.m.)

Laurie Goldrich Wolf is a food writer, chef and recipe developer who has written or food-styled for just about every magazine ever written. She was born and raised in New York City. Because her mother was a “dreadful cook,” she and her brother developed a passion for good food by eating out. Since she had limited food knowledge, Laurie decided to study cooking at The Culinary Institute of America after getting her Bachelor’s degree at New York University.

Laurie worked in restaurants until she met her husband-to-be, photographer Bruce Wolf. He told her about food styling, which was not yet part of the curriculum at cooking school. She apprenticed for a year and worked for many well-known food and lifestyle magazines for many years, eventually becoming a food editor for “Mademoiselle” and then “Child” magazine.

In 2008 Laurie and her family moved to Portland, partly drawn to the exploding food scene. She spent the first couple years in Portland researching the book she didn’t know she’d be writing, trying out the top restaurants and shopping at all the farmer’s markets. As good fortune would have it, Laurie was hired to write the local edition of a series about “foodie” towns. “Portland, Oregon Chef’s Table” was published in 2009. A tribute to the fantastic food scene here, the book has recipes and descriptions of over 75 of Portland’s best restaurants and more. It truly captures the essence of our food culture.

She recently combined her love of creating recipes and cooking with the medical and recreational use of cannabis, authoring 6 books focusing on cannabis as an herb while simultaneously launching a marijuana edible business called Laurie & Mary Jane. Laurie and Bruce are now splitting their time between Portland and San Miguel de Allende. Laurie is currently making CBD dog biscuits in Mexico, and soon they will be available in the states.

Nominate A M.O.M.

The M.O.M. menu has been an important part of Mother’s since we opened in 2000.  This allows our guests to experience both new flavors and dishes from around the world and meals prepared with love by mothers cooking for their families.  Our past M.O.M.’s include a wide variety of individuals- mothers, sisters, grandmothers, daughters, friends, and wives- and we’ve even had a few honorary male M.O.M.’s!

If you would like to nominate somebody (or yourself) to be a future M.O.M. at Mother’s, please fill out this form and return it to the host at Mother’s or [email protected].  Once we receive your form, we will contact the nominee (if possible), or you, (if it’s you or if you’d like to be the intermediary) to discuss potential dishes for the M.O.M. menu.

When making menu suggestions, please keep in mind that our M.O.M. menu typically includes an appetizer, salad and/or lunch item, 2-3 entrees (usually a meat, poultry, and/or vegetarian/fish dish) and a dessert.  When making suggestions, feel free to make your list as long as you’d like, but don’t suggest dishes that replicate those on our main menu (even if yours is the best meatloaf in the world, meatloaf is on our regular menu, so couldn’t be offered on our M.O.M. menu).

It’s likely we’ll have a bit of back and forth where I may ask you to list ingredients in a dish to gain a clearer idea of how it might taste, but keep in mind that we won’t need any recipes until after we finalize the menu.

Thanks again for your interest in the M.O.M. program.  Feel free to contact us with any questions you have!

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