I decided to throw a fondue party to celebrate decorating my apartment and getting my life more organized. I invited my friend who did the girl scout cookie tasting with me last year and he bought a whole bunch of beer to use for our dessert course.
I hadn’t seen my friends from college for awhile and one of them suggested we do brunch. My friend Peter is the only one of my friends who is married. He has a nice wife and two children.
So there is this fancy restaurant in Portland called Beast, which I would say is the fanciest place I know in Portland.
I have been there for dinner and the price has gone up to $100 a plate (and that’s sans wine pairings). Continue Reading
I have been dying to make the seven layers of sin bars from the Sugar Cube cookbook (as if I don’t make enough things from there but they are always amazing).
However, this continued the trend for the Northwest meal I made for my friend.
It’s my sister’s birthday today, right before the leap year and I was told to bring chocolate cupcakes. I make chocolate cupcakes pretty often as you can see through the posts here, but it isn’t my birthday !
I did it again. I took a bag of berries from the freezer to make pie that I would have to return to the freezer after it was baked.
These berries happened to be marionberries and they made a batch of tartlets and a full pie.
I’m not a full supporter of the gluten free movement, but the one benefit I can understand is that dessert flavors come through clearer. Things are more chocolatey and sweet plus you don’t feel weighed down by the filler gluten.
There’s this epic dessert place in Portland, OR called Papa Hadyn. My mother used to go there very often when she was pregnant with me so it is older than I am.
They make their own ice cream, macarons and meringues.
But they also have a whole case of original pie and cake concoctions.
I had my first DND game last weekend and thought about making some bar cookies. My friend from the East Coast was also going and said he wanted lemon bars (though I reminded him that DND is not a tea party).
I emptied out my storage unit last weekend but I needed arm strength from three of my guy friends.
Moving always has the custom of treating those to delicious food in exchange for help with the annoying task.