Archive for the 'food' Category
baking is fun?
11Jun08i’ve been quite hesitant to post about my last cycle. intro to baking finished up last week and i found something out about myself. i like baking. if you would have asked me 3 weeks ago what i enjoyed more, baking or cooking, i would have laughed and said cooking, hands down. […]
american regional cuisine
26Apr08another cycle in the bag. the last three weeks i have been in american regional. in this class we spend a day or two in the many regions of the u.s. we started in the mid-atlantic states, then through new england, the south, louisiana, texas and tex-mex, the central plains, california, hawaii, […]
pineapple grows in iowa?
23Apr08on our recent trip home we were lucky enough to see something quite rare. lets start from the beginning. . .
around 6 years ago, deeann and her family went to hawaii. they brought home a pineapple from that trip, twisted the top off, ate the fruit and decided to plant the top. […]
spring beer & wine fest
22Mar08today we took the max line over for a taste of some delicious beers and wines and the spring beer & wine festival. breweries and wineries from california, oregon, and washington joined forces along with a good handful of some local portland restaurants to fork out some good eats and tasty drinks at the […]
another cycle down
25Jan08don’t worry, i’m still here.
things have been quite busy with this last class. culinary skills 2 has been a whirlwind of cooking methods, stocks, sauces, and all sorts of dicin’ fun. this week has been all sorts of crazy with written tests, knife tests, product identification tests, and food prep up the wazoo.
today […]
a little update
07Nov07things in portland are moving right along. deeann has settled well into work. it doesn’t seem to be too stressful at this point and the contract at this VA hospital is really going well. i had orientation last saturday and we went to blue night at the school on monday. it […]
