Way back in college, and I think I’ve talked about it here somewhat, I really discovered that I loved to cook when I first lived off-campus. I started with simple family recipes: pizza chicken, ratatouille, roasted potatoes…easy stuff. Then, on a fateful night, when I was staying in on a Friday (doing my nails and [...]
I’ve always had a bit of a phobia cooking fish at home. Sure, I can lightly bread and oven bake a tilapia filet just like the next person, but cooking fish well freaked me out. The anxiety increased the more expensive the fish is. Tilapia = low anxiety Wild-caught salmon = fairly high anxiety A [...]
As of the last post, my trip to Portland had been quite adventurous. Coast –> beach time –> Seaside Arcade –> candy shopping –> crab –> crash. My last full day was the only one that had anything actually scheduled. I love having relatively unscheduled trips so that things can be done as I feel, [...]
by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on August 26, 2012
in friends, travel
We left off after a second beautiful day in Portland… food & wine festival –> BBQ –> Groceries –> homemade deep dish pizza… Ericka had mentioned to me that we may be doing some significant walking the following day, so I made sure to wear my favorite flip flops for our trek out to the [...]
OK, where’d we leave off? Oh right, airplane –> food carts –> movie –> fro-yo –> sushi I must’ve been absolutely exhausted, because when I went to sleep at about 11:00 p.m. Portland time on Saturday, I figured I’d get up about 8 a.m. I was totally wrong. I finally looked at my phone and [...]