This entry is a participant of the tea IMBB event hosted by A La Cuisine.
Cooking with tea brings up soo many flavor possibilities, the task of narrowing down the flavor search is almost debilitating! While chosing a flavor is difficult, the actual methods of cooking with tea are rather intuitive. Tea can [...]
Living in Eugene, I’ve come to know more and more about various food subcultures. The list is getting impressive, as there is more than one way to butter your toast… we have vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists, fruititarians, freegans, and polyvores. This all makes for interesting potlucks in this town…
“Wait [...]
I had fun playing around with my citrus peel while trying to make a good citrus sorbet the last week. I still haven’t acchieved the perfect mix of sugar and tang for my grapefruit sorbet, but I did strike gold playing with the grapefruit peels. After candying the peels of several grapefruits (the [...]
Google continues to wow me with the new applications that they develop. From finding your house in the satellite imagery of Google Maps to searching your own images in Picassa, Google continues to provide web applications for free.
Tonight I rediscovered the Google Print service, which allows you to search and view a [...]
Cold coffee drinks are a must have for summer enjoyment. They come in many flavors and can be made sweet as melted ice cream or just as straight up coffee. My iced coffee addiction is supplimented by the many coffee shops by my house and work, a few of which have taught me [...]
I love reading the personals in the back of the Eugene Weekly. There are some really cute ads, and its a good way to keep a finger on the pulse of our fair city. Actually, I read it in hopes that I will be SEEN in the I Saw You section… but really, [...]
This is a favorite cooking tool that I store next to my stove. It’s a wonderfully simple and useful tool modeled after a tombo, or dragonfly stick I use in throwing (pottery speak here- made on a potters wheel) consistantly sized cups. However, this cooking version is a tombo with its wings torn [...]
I’ve overdosed on honey in the past. This was during my make bath salts and make shampoo phase of my life. I was buying essential oils to scent soaps with and also bought a small vial of honey perfume. I used it in honey oatmeal foot scrub and honey milk baths… and [...]
Papa’s Myspace Page: warning- automatic music
New Space for Papa
“The new, 1,400-square-foot restaurant will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesdays through Thursdays, and will remain open later for regular live blues performances Friday and Saturday nights.
The new building - best known as the former Hilda’s Latin American Restaurant - is across Blair Boulevard [...]
Somebody must think I’m sweet… my mail today yielded such a wonderful bundle of chocolate goodness! In what has proven to be a gentle reminder for me to send off my goodie package, comes a chocolate tasting menu. Nic sent me a wonderful pack of chocolate cherry biscotti, that fills all my biscotti [...]
