Associated Press: **** my salad
Apparently, the Associated Press now charges for any excerpt (fair use conventions notwithstanding) for nesting more than four words of their original content in a <blockquote> tag (and linking...
View ArticleChocolate granola
I’m not a breakfast cereal for breakfast person. And, I’m not a dessert person, either. In fact, I tend to eat breakfast cereal for dessert. So I found this stuff in bulk at Winco Foods last week:...
View ArticleFuck you, AT&T
And thus, fuck off iPhone. And BTW, send that bill for that $175 early cancellation penalty fee straight to a collection agency. I’m positive when I have to get another 30-year mortgage in 6-7 years,...
View ArticleGood Taste Pork
Good Taste has two restaurants: one in NW Chinatown (4th Ave. location pictured above) and the other located in SE Portland (82nd Ave). Both locations feature hanging meat you can buy. Including this...
View ArticleBetter living without chemistry
I ran across this stuff while searching around on the Interwebs for dried provisions to stock up on in event of nuclear winter or the eventual systematic decay of civilization, which I am estimating to...
View ArticleBeef bacon
I bought some of this stuff. And ate a big plate of it. How was it? Well, I ate a big plate of it.
View ArticleWhole Foods: Downsize
Whole Foods Warns of Layoffs and Smaller Stores. (The Stranger) Blaming a tough economy, Whole Foods executives sent an ominous letter to all employees in its Pacific Northwest stores last month that...
View ArticleKettle BBQ Chips
I enjoy these BBQ flavored chips. In my mind, they are second to Trader Joe’s Hawaiian Style Hickory Barbecue Potato Chips, and they do indeed taste better than my backyard.
View ArticleChoripdong Jjambbong
I picked up these “fresh noodle” Korean soup packs during a recent trip to Hmart. As you can see on the package, that broth is red. Red = good. Choripdong is proving themselves to be quite the...
View ArticleMartin’s Swiss Dressing: made in Portland
I first tasted this Martin’s Swiss Dressing about 15 months ago when they were doing an expo at Uwajimaya. I sampled the dressing as a nice coat on simple mixed greens, and immediately experienced...
View ArticleSpotted in Portland: Peruvian Condiment Edition
Spotted at Barbur World Foods. Coming soon to a dish in my kitchen.
View ArticleShisito and Thanh Son tofu
A snack: stir-fried shisito peppers (from H-mart) and slices of lemongrass/chili tofu from SE Portland’s Thanh Son Tofu. This is a perfect lager beer nosh, in my humble (and often wrong) opinion. If...
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