Tag Archives: Asparagus

Sep7

Dinner and Donuts, Dining Dates!

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Monday and Wednesday, 24-July and 26-July



Two separate events, but easier to combine into one – Date night, and Date morning! Or… Date afternoon?


For date night – Mussels and fancy Belgian dining!

For date afternoon – Mini donuts, and a flight of Chai lattes!


I don’t really know what else to say about this. If you have to have a doctors appointment in the middle of the day, take yourself out to Pip’s Mini donuts to celebrate getting through it? And if you want to go to a great Mussel restaurant in Portland… you can’t, because this was their last week open. Booo….

Anyways it was tasty!

Aug4

A Roman dinner… that isn’t actually Roman

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Sunday, 02-July-2023

**Warning – Food post, includes the meats**


Ever since visiting Rome, I’ve loved the idea of cooking more traditional Roman dinners. Not Italian dinners, mind you… Roman.

As in, ancient Rome. Old-school.


I had the opportunity to try an option out one Sunday that I thought was a Roman style… I did some research, confirmed that asparagus and beef were found in Italy at the time (or near enough), and then added polenta because obviously that’s Roman… and cooked it all up!

Turns out – Not so accurate.

Romans didn’t eat beef – they used oxen as beasts of burden, but didn’t eat them.
Romans didn’t eat polenta – it’s actually corn based, which was native to North America.
Romans did totally eat asparagus and drink wine, though, so… win?

Anyways it was delicious and I enjoyed it.

We had ice cream afterward. Not Roman. Yes delicious.