I walked into work at the start of the Christmas season to a break room with eight kinds of cookies.
I had a little too many for breakfast, but that didn’t stop me from more cookies in the Christmas future. Continue Reading
The Cookie season
#pdx
Chinese Thanksgiving Cheesecake
My Salem friends got into a bizarre argument about Thanksgiving.
Some of them wanted a goose, even though they could not afford one.
I want cookies
I’ve done a lot of food shopping lately and my stash at home is limited only to chocolate bars so I needed to make some cookies.
I had all kinds of nuts, chips, baking coconut, oats and peanut butter so there was no reason not to have a different kind of dessert.
Big cream puff
So this weekend I decided to try out the Asian bakery in the Japanese supermarket.
The bakery is called Beard Papa’s (because silly Asian names) and they have cream puffs bigger than your fist that are almost always sold out.
Woodblock Chocolate
So I have this friend who has recently moved here from the East Coast and wants to try all the tasty Portland things.
Woodblock Chocolate company is one of them, and all I knew of them is that they make great cocoa nibs that I have in my pantry.
But apparently they are a store and you can watch them make chocolate.
An autumn of donuts
This autumn it seems that donuts are following me to my workplace and my friends are requesting to go in search of them over the weekend.
And people are just eating them around me in general.
Silly bundt cake
My friends and I wanted to watch “The Great Gastby” with Leonardo Dicaprio and I was tired of making cookies.
Tis the season to whip out my cathedral shaped bundt cake pan.
“Cajun” cake
This is a cajun pecan cake from the Palio dessert cafe.
The slice is a white cake with butter cream- cream cheese frosting. There are pecans within the cake and on top, which are candied and with cayenne pepper and cinnamon.
My Favorite Portland Donuts
Yes, Portland is the land of Voodoo Donuts, but I am talking about another type that is classicly creative and damn delicious.
Blue Star Donuts came into the Portland scene quite recently, but they now have two stores that are open until they sell out. One is downtown and the other is on SE Hawthorne.
My favorite rums
Rum is made from sugar cane and then distilled so it still counts as something sweet for the Sugar Hedonist.
Rum is not necessarily my favorite hard liquor, but it is one I have much experience with, because I used to have a roommate who was really into rum and mixology, and he spent a lot of money on growing his rum and entire liquor collection.