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Photo Friday Challenge – Building (Wind-power)
Posted on June 17, 2011 by jackieinpdx
Toast – A Portland neighborhood restaurant
Posted on May 25, 2011 by jackieinpdx
I have driven by Toast so many times. I thought it was a coffee shop. If you live in Portland and you see a small neighborhood spot with a full bike rack out front you think indie coffee shop. I Googled Toast a few weeks ago and looked at the menu and knew that I had to try this place.
Toast is a neighborhood restaurant that specializes in using local, seasonal, fresh, and natural products. They make freshly baked breads and pastries, and grind meats for their sausages and burgers in house. They say that they buy the best product available in order to provide customers with a top quality experience.
I love trying small local restaurants with the philosophy like Toast’s. Local and fresh is the best! I had the “Dismal Times – Ground hanger steak, white cheddar cheese, chives, greens, served open faced on toast with two fried eggs and a rosti.” The hangar steak was seasoned just right, the eggs were fried to my exact specifications and the rosti was wonderful. You also get a mini scone of the day as a starter with your brunch. Today’s scone was lemon zest and was really good, all two bites of it.
I thoroughly enjoyed my brunch today. So much so that I stopped at the counter to tell the cooks and the rest of the kitchen staff how wonderful my food was. I told them it was excellent and I will be back. When I got home I wrote up a review and posted to UrbanSpoon, Yelp and TripAdvisor.
Toast’s Hours of operation: Open for Brunch 7 Days a week! Tuesday 9:00 a.m. – 2p.m. Monday through Sunday 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. (There is a small adult beverage drink menu available to imbibe with your brunch. Next time I will have the Bloody Mary.)
Lunch Wednesday – Saturday Not available Sunday well maybe Sundays just ask
Dinner – Thursday and Friday only 5:30 p.m. – 9:00pm (Limited menu)
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Wordless Wednesday
Posted on March 30, 2011 by jackieinpdx
Wordless Wednesday
Posted on February 23, 2011 by jackieinpdx
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A spectacularly beautiful fall day!
Posted on November 4, 2010 by jackieinpdx
Previously I have written blog posts about how crappy the weather can be in Portland. I may have even ranted about it. When it rains non-stop for a week or two it can get really old. Gray skies, damp and windy days are very common most of the late fall to late spring.
This is about the weather here in Portland but it’s not a complaint. Today it was 68 degrees, blue sky; sunshine and I drove with my sunroof open. The leaves in Oregon change later than a lot of other areas of the country. Some trees have completely changed colors while others are just beginning to. It was just a beautiful fall day!
Overall I really should not complain about the Portland weather.
- We have very little snow. Usually it only snows every couple of years or so. However, when it does snow it tends to be layered, snow, ice, snow, ice.
- We don’t have hurricanes or tornados.
- Summer forest fires are frequent but they are in the rural areas of the state especially southern, central and eastern Oregon.
- We have an occasional minor earthquake but haven’t had one that caused any damage since 1993.
- In parts of the state, even in the city sometimes there are creeks and rivers that flood due to a really long spell of rain or a fast snow melt.
So here’s what I saw today. The beautiful blue sky and the wonderful colors of the changing leaves.
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