Portland Food & Ink

If you were lucky enough to be one of their customers last Saturday night you would have seen that Bluehour is the latest restaurant to have a bunch of Jackasses protesting about Foie Gras being on their menu. I'm not going to spend any time talking about the dorks that spent their Saturday night protesting this fine restaurant, I don't want to waste my breath, and its my understanding that they...

I rarely make it over to Vancouver and when I do, it's normally a quick trip, in and out as quickly as I can. It's not because I dislike The Couve, its quite simply because I am yet to have a good experience in Vancouver, I haven't spent enough time there to really give it a chance. I am waiting for a reason to make the trip through what can be some pretty nasty traffic, back to Vancouver to a...

I am the opposite of a Vegetarian and rarely eat anything that is considered to be"vegetarian", I eat a ton of salads and drink a V-8 every morning, but when it comes to Tofu, TVP, Soy Milk, Brown Rice or Quinoa, I can do without it! But I do like Legumes, and Anasazi Beans are one of my favorites. Anasazi Beans are one of the more well known heirloom beans out there, and have even been spotted...

If you aren't familiar with Aebelskivers, they are similar to American pancakes but you cook them in a funky little pan and the end result is a round, bite size "pancake." I have only had them at Dutch restaurants and they are always served for breakfast in place of pancakes. My understanding is that in Denmark they aren't served for breakfast but are often paired with Mulled Wine. I cook them...

There are only a handful of American Chefs that have the respect of every Chef, Line Cook, Restaurant Manager, Server and Restauranteur in the business and Thomas Keller is one of those Chefs. He has remained true to what he is all about and hasn't sold out to the Food Network, yet. I have heard rumors of a frozen food line, dishes and knives all with the Keller stamp of approval on them, I...

I rarely write about the food scene outside of Portland and I know that those of you who dig In-N-Out don't need to be reminded of how much it sucks that we don't have one here, and those of you who don't dig In-N-Out aren't really interested in hearing anything else about this over hyped fast food burger joint. But while in Vegas I only had two meals that were worth me being in that awful town...

About 8 or 9 years ago I discovered good Gin and went on a bit of a Gin kick, for a couple of years I decided that I needed to taste all of the best Gins and other than sipping on a nice glass of Miller's, I usually found myself ordering a Gin & Tonic. Tonic Water in general is pretty damn sweet and I am certain that the stuff that comes out of the gun contains a ton of corn syrup and as we...