In medias res

I made some cornbread last weekend; since there were just two eaters, we didn’t come close to finishing it. Days later, I was in need of a quick dinner, and decided to try something new. Sooo…I mixed together the remaining cup or so of chili with a can of black beans, poured some jalapeno salsa [...]

I was ready to blow up when I saw the following headline on the O this morning: Portland’s low-income neighborhoods are city’s ‘food deserts.’ Given the excessive number of wealthy foodies who restaurant hop on Hawthorne and fight for parking spaces at New Seasons, I guessed it was going to propose that the poor needed [...]

Start with some Stumptown Sumatra blend coffee. Think about their future New York City location (H/T Dave Knows: Portland), become highly annoyed with the Flash-based design of their website. (Hello, world, it doesn’t work for rock band websites, and it doesn’t work for yours, either.)
Head to farmer’s market the moment it opens. Obtain all the [...]

I had dinner with a friend this evening at a place in SE Portland, Wild Abandon. We were seated on the patio, and the mosquitoes were aggressively awful…she was mopping blood off her arm with her napkin. We waited about twenty minutes for our server to come by after the onslaught started, and when we [...]

I’m having a pre-birthday brunch for my Best Roommate Ever tomorrow morning; there will be 12-15 of us, and most of the group are of the pretty hard-drinking variety. The menu is coming together a bit slowly, but so far, here’s what I have:
Drinks: coffee, mimosas (OJ and passionfruit), bloody marys, prolly greyhounds
Food: challah French [...]