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Archive for May, 2009

what a tease

Posted in general, tagged on May 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »

A cheese puff tree? Saw this on a bike ride and had to record its existence. Half-inch cheese-puffy balls all over this thing. Yay. Just goes to show that just because it looks like cheese, there’s no guarantee it’s going to taste like cheese. Enter Teese cheddar. As a Chicago-born lass, I want nothing more than [...]

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vita’s open again

Posted in eatin' out/in, tagged , , on May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

So Vita Cafe’s finally open again. This is right across the street from the old location, at Alberta and 30th. It looks like they’ve lost the outdoor seating but gained several tables inside—they were pretty busy so I didn’t ask what prompted the move. Whatever, the food’s still solid. I even tried something new. Tom ordered [...]

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everydaycake

Posted in general on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Meant to post this over the weekend, but I didn’t because <enter lame excuse here>. Saturday morning, we went on another 4-quadrant Portland bike ride, beginning early enough to grab breakfast muffins at Sweetpea and get ourselves a bench by the river. (We were a little farther south than I wanted to be but there was a [...]

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5-minute dessert

Posted in quick fix on May 18, 2009 | 6 Comments »

    Thanks, summer. Oh, wait, it’s still spring. But it was sunny and gorgeous and a little hot, and after finding out that Vita Cafe has yet to open their fancy new location (right across the street from the old one…due to open May 20), Tom and I found ourselves at New Seasons looking [...]

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backpacking orzo

Posted in campastic, recipes, tagged on May 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The gear’s out of the closet and the roads around the mountains are beginning to open after the winter…’tis the season for just-add-boiling-water recipe development. I wrote before about backpacking food, and I just added a new category (look to your right) because I’d like to add a lot more to this. On a multiday hike, sometimes you don’t even want [...]

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