Blue Plate Bachelor

I approve of this website:
http://beermapping.com/maps/citymaps.php?m=portlandor
(A beer oriented approach to google maps, via Metafilter)

Frozen Gnocchi - waiting for action (in a pot of boiling water and perhaps some pesto)

Food Pairing Charts.

Apparently the NY Times has a great big crush on the Rose City:
See this article about our thriving bicycle culture.

Aerosol. Pancakes. In. A. Can.
http://www.batterblaster.com/

(A special guest recipe from Dawn Young)
Depending on the size of your bundt cake pan. (my pan only holds two cans of biscuits)

1-3 cans of biscuits (I like the hungry jack kind)
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
1 cup of white sugar
1 stick of butter
1 cup of brown sugar
Optional: raisons or nuts

*Please note that adjustments can be [...]

http://www.peppersandsmoke.com/bbq/burgers/index.html
Bacon burger. Literally.
(needs BBQ sauce)

Instead of following some boring old wedding gift registry, Julie, her special man, and Kathleen bought us a wine dinner kit from the Torii Mor winery here in Oregon.
The kit included three bottles of wine, a 2005 Pinot Blanc, a 2005 Pinot Noir, and a 2005 Gewürztraminer. Also included was menu, recipe cards, instructions for [...]

Right after the wedding the BluePlate Misses and I went to lovely Rockaway Beach, Oregon for a short mini-moon (we’ll be flying off to sunny Mexico for the real thing this December).
We rented your classic cheesy beach house, with classic cheesy shell-encrusted furnishings and decor. However this beach house had a little something extra. In [...]