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Improv Night: White Bean Eggs Benedict

August 28, 2010

A Friday night treat to celebrate my first week at my new job: white bean patties (Great Northern beans, onion, garlic, serrano peppers, olive oil, Kosher salt, fresh ground pepper, an egg, panko breadcrumbs) topped with tomatoes, olives, artichokes and capers, served with eggs over-easy and homemade hollandaise sauce, and lettuce from my mom’s garden.

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The Sonic Boom.

August 27, 2010

Generally speaking, I don’t eat fast food.  Generally.  I mean every once in a while, onion rings are great and the McDonald’s plain cheeseburger sometimes really hits the spot.  Oh shut up.  Quit judging.  You like the occasional crap food.  You know you do. Anyway.  My friends and I were on our way to the [...]

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HHE Reveals Hope for Chinese Food in Portland. Kind of.

August 26, 2010

After my big adventure this past weekend in New Hampshire and my friend Ansley’s big adventure in San Francisco the same weekend, we had to trade stories.  Urgently.  It was a Happy Hour Emergency (HHE).  Part of this HHE was also that I started a new job and had to dish that as well.  So. [...]

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Meet me at the fair.

August 21, 2010

I had such butterflies in my stomach yesterday.  I was so excited to eat fair food.  And see old friends.  And it was seriously so much fun.   There was so much grease and fat and laughter, it was impossible not to be in love with the night. My best friend from elementary school was running [...]

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