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 [...]
http://www.blackwidowbakery.com/demo/meatcake/
In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking (NY Times online)
Great. Just great. Now every obnoxious New Jersey twit with a platinum card in their wallet is going to come to Portland. Thanks, New York Times. Thanks for ruining it for everybody.
Back when I escaped from the right coast, Portland was this undiscovered [...]
If you payed close attention to snarky comments and references to the “Blue Plate Betrothed” then you would have ascertained that I was getting hitched.
More than one person has remarked to me “so now your going to have to change the name of your website”.
No I don’t.
If Fake Steve Jobs can continue to be both [...]
http://overheardinpdx.blogspot.com/2007/08/so-is-it-fried.html
Today is Julia Child’s birthday.
Butter something.
(seriously)
It’s Christopher Walken, makin’ chicken…
http://www.eatingcleveland.com/?p=271
Apparently one of the key ingredients of Bacon Salt is spamming the hell out of anyone who talks about it on the intertubes.