Corn Hash AND Zucchini Hash at Yolk in Portland: Manifest Hashcapade

For the hash obsessed, it doesn’t get much better than this: Don Kotler, owner of Toast, launched a food cart, Yolk. Wait. It gets better…they serve potato hash every day – HUZZAH! My faithful tweep, Lyndsey McBride, invited me to the pre-opening festivities and, like MacArthur, I vowed, “I shall return.”

A few weeks later, @Toast_PDX let me know that Bacon Hash was on the menu. Since I had already experienced a lovely hashcapade at Toast, I knew this was fate calling me to honor my vow. “Clark. Manifest Destiny. It’s time to return to Yolk,” thundered fate. (It wasn’t loud nor in stereo because my left ear was plugged, but that’s another story.)

Yolk food cart - located at SE Woodstock and SE 48th

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Crab Corn Crimini Mushroom Hash

Ahhhh, nothing like a little impromptu potato hash when you’re at the market wondering what’s for dinner. Well, tonight, I created this lusciously decadent crab corn crimini mushroom hash from the ground up, no safety net, no wires! Cirque du Soleil has nothing on me, baby, yeah!

You see, it all starts with the taters, the foundation of any good potato hash, which begs for Yukon gold – good moisture, golden color and solid texture. But I digress.

The real star turned about to be the lemon and lime zest that, combined with the thyme, to create a nice counterpoint to the dried red pepper flakes used with the potatoes for some heat.

Don’t try this at home unless you are willing to make it again, and again, and again! Queue the recipe…and…action!

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Happy Hashcapades,
Clark