SFW. Get things quiet, and just watch. It's so... calming.

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Speaking of relaxing, here's a bonus. 009 Sound System's "Sweet Mary." For the religion-sensitive, it's about marijuana.

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One of my upstairs neighbors just came home and found me, like he sometimes does, on the porch with a cigarette and a beer. He held up the saran-wrapped roasting pan in his hands and offered me some duck and pine nut stuffing. He'd make both himself and was just coming home from dinner in Oregon City with his sister and brother ( Read more... )

I've had a little hankering for crab or lobster recently. Haven't had it for ages. The Oregon coast is Dungeness crab territory, hardcore, and I think it's still fishin' season for it. Apparently this year's crab have an unprecedented meat-to-shell ratio. I've been keeping an eye on prices, though, and they're still way higher than I want to ( Read more... )

Two chicken quarters, buncha mushrooms, carrots, celery, parsnips, green onions, regular onion, garlic. Salt & pepper. Basil, oregano, parsley. I ran out of poultry seasoning and tried to buy some in bulk yesterday at Winco, but they were out. Had been for two weeks, according to the staff, and no clue why. I dithered in the bottled spice ( Read more... )

I just rode 6.5 miles with a carton of farm-fresh eggs in my bike basket and none of them broke. Let's hear it for convolute polyurethane foam, yo. I knew there was some damned upside to working in packaging.

In other news, Casa de Tamales, where I got the eggs, has pretty good tamales. Not stellar overall, but the corny outer bit tasted lovely ( Read more... )

I got back from Seattle this afternoon. Details and pics to follow at a later time ( Read more... )

On the strident, shrieking, bitter and derisive recommendation of a damnportlanders poster several days ago ("real egg yolks are ORANGE!"), I went to my local farmer's market yesterday to buy some organic farm fresh eggs. $4 for half a dozen! Yeah, tastier than cheap grocery store eggs, but not orange and not dramatic enough to justify the vast amount of sand ( Read more... )

Safeway.
Ten pounds of spareribs.
Ten dollars.
In my freezer.
Mmm-hmm.
That's five racks, kids.
In my freezer.
Five racks.

The sale goes on through, like, Monday or Tuesday I think.

One of the benefits of having a well-used pizza stone is that when I turn the oven on to heat up my apartment quicker, it smells like pizza! :D

I attended a function last night at Casa de Doom. A wily horde of pleasant people and a mascot in the form of a table full of more bottles of alcohol than I've seen in a private home in years made for a loud ring-in and a comfortable wind-down. A little too comfortable, actually-the champagne (and everything else) snuck up on me. Not alone in ( Read more... )