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ModCloth Coupon

Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Especially for you: the good, fine, stylish, attractive, and generally better educated blue plate readers; ModCloth is offering a coupon code good for 10% off any order at their site.
Enter “blueplate10″ under “Discount Coupons” when you check out.
(Don’t say I never got you anything.)

Places to do, things to see.

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Thanks to a new contributor we’ve got a good start on a list of fun places to go in Portland for food and beverages.
This list is long yet incomplete, but it’s a good start.
If you see a place here you like, leave us a comment to let us know what you thought, or leave [...]

Beer, Bread, Brie

Saturday, April 14th, 2007

A night to myself. A plate of bachelor goodies, and the best film ever.

Momma said there’d be days like this

Saturday, March 31st, 2007

All it takes is for you to lose your hard-drive at home, and then have your web host die on you to completely ruin your web site.
Fortunately the database holding all the recipe goodies remained in tact. Unfortunately, almost all of my pictures and my site layout were lost into the ether.
But now, we have [...]

Orrichette with asian eggpant and baby bok-choy

Saturday, October 14th, 2006

I stumbled into a Chinese-themed street fair in downtown Portland the other day, and found myself some nice produce. And just like Marco Polo, I thought “this would go great in pasta”.
You will need

1 asian eggplant, diced and salted. (you may wish to peel the skin, if you don’t like the texture)
2-3 heads of baby [...]

Comment-tally-vous

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

Comments have returned to the Blue Plate Bachelor.
(@#$$%$#&*! spammers)

Small Plates

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

I’ve got no recipes to speak of…but here are some snapshots.

Tonight I broiled a butterflied Cornish Game Hen on both sides for about 10 minutes (they’re small, it doesn’t take long). I pulled the bird from the broiler and covered in my tomato sauce I had leftover from making pizza a week ago. I let [...]

Quiche Part II

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

On Saturday we spent a lovely day in the Oregon Wine country and had a delightful picnic at the top of the Ann Aimee winery.  Our spread included French and Asian themed foods and a bottle of a Laurel Vineyards Pinot Noir.  The weather cooperated beautifully and good times were had by all.  I also [...]

Cork’d

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

The infamous web-auteur Dan Benjamin has released a new web app for the sole purpose of tracking your offline wine experience — called Cork’d
Finally, the internet is living up to its potential.

Quiche Lorraine

Monday, May 1st, 2006

Assuming you already have a pie crust a quiche is easy, tasty, and impressive. Even James Bond can make a quiche
Ingredients

3 eggs
1 egg yolk
1 cup milk (lowfat or whole)
3-4 strips of bacon, cooked (not too crisp)
1 cup of grated gruyere cheese
Salt + Pepper to taste
1 9″ pie crust

How To
Your pie crust should be par-baked before [...]

Basic Dining for the Basic Bachelor