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  1. edenman
    Pan-fried trout, shaved brussels sprouts, topped with spicy blended mixture of capers and the scraps from shaving the sprouts.
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    Nice. I was at Pigeon early Saturday night, and Higgins later Saturday night for beers. Pigeon continues to be the best food I've had in Portland...whole grilled eel, rabbit in puff pastry, and pork shoulder were all fantastic. Other food stops included a very good lunch at Pok Pok (I made it out there after all, thanks to the buses), dinner at Beast (6 courses for $52, wine pairings an additional $35. quite good, but not amazing. except the fois bon-bon. that was amazing). Beer bars included Green Dragon, Belmont Station, Bailey's Taproom, Horse Brass, and Morrison House. Brewpub-wise, hit Hopworks (great concept, so-so beers), Lucky Lab (good) and Roots (another disappointment, and I've liked their stuff before). Another weekend in Portland studded with the regular haunts but with a few impressive newcomers to the fray. Love eating and drinking in this city. Now it's time for a little detox. ETA beast and green dragon.
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    Heading to PDX tomorrow to visit a friend for the weekend. Unfortunately, it looks like he's going to be bogged down with work for much of the daytime hours this weekend, so I'll be flying solo. I get in at like 11:30...any lunch ideas downtownish? Someone recommended Pok Pok but it's pretty far SE and I'm not sure I'd be able to get down there in time.
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    Seared shrimp in a lime juice, cilantro, and shrimp butter sauce. Tomato, avocado garnish. Too summery for the weather, but I made some shrimp butter last week and needed to use it for something. WF's season-defying produce availability means I could pick up tomatoes and avocado, but neither were terribly good. Shrimp and sauce were great, though.
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    Link?
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    Always reminds me of this Everything I know about cheese I learned from the Animaniacs
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    Went over to Granville's last night, intending to get some mussels. Waylaid by a duck confit salad and entree of pork chop (marinated in bacon fat, sage, and something else) cooked to a perfect medium. Add the excellent beers into the equation (De Dolle Ara, Petrus Aged Pale) and it was a great destination dinner.
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    Pernod-braised lamb. Go get it. Thank me later.
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    Shrimp and grits with crispy pork belly confit.
  10. edenman
    Always regex sober, kids.
  11. edenman
    s/somebody/everybody/ Plymouth martini, Noilly Prat Dry.
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    I call bullshit. Maybe the "clear liquors get you less hungover than darker ones" theory is in play here, but I can't imagine the egg whites affecting the alcohol effects on your body.
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    I've started experimenting with using guanciale as the fat quotient in sausage. First run was too coarse ground, but delicious. Needs further analysis.
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    In case anybody was planning on coming out to the Rustico Oktobeerfest this Saturday, it's been postponed due to the rain. New date is October 18.
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    Followup: we ended up at Tallula although my recent visits to Commonwealth indicate that it would've been a good choice as well.
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    You forgot the cotechino and fried egg dish (Nathan: "the secret of the egg? lots of butter") Also, the pancetta on the top of the greens on top of the sugo was like the cherry on the top of a sundae. A 6-course, porked-out sundae. I started walking back to the metro afterwards and only made it about a block before hailing a cab. Still haven't eaten anything today and don't plan to, except maybe a salad for dinner if I'm not still full by then. Hedonistic, incredible. Can't wait til we can get this stuff more widely, there were too many highlights to list them all. [of course, the obligatory "I work at Rustico, which is in the same group" statement goes here].
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    Green Flash Le Freak - another one of the 2IPA vs Belgian Tripel hybrids, except completely imbalanced. This beer is the anti-jparrot: super-carbonated, 9%, and totally over-the-top with piney hops. Normally I'm ok with all of those things, but this one is just too much pine. Avoid.
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    Stopped in the last two Sundays in a row. The first was a solo afternoon "butcher board" meal including sweetbreads, head cheese, and stuffed trotters. Victory Hop Devil on cask. The second was a smorgasbord experience with 4 friends. We ignored the brunch menu and ordered what felt like one of everything else: chips, scotch eggs, frog in a puff, potted pork, crab on toast, duck sausage, black pudding, sweetbreads, stinky and goat cheeses, bubble/squeak, and welsh rarebit. The black pudding was the only thing that even came close to missing (maybe we let it get a little too cold?), and the rest was great. The potted pork was some of the best I've had in the city, and the bubble/squeak was the sleeper hit: fried cake of cabbage and (i think) bacon. Hop Devil was 86'd so I reluctantly had a pre-noon Victory Storm King cask. I'm hoping they get some more momentum behind their cask program to catch up with Antonio in the kitchen...if they do, this will quickly become one of my favorite places in the city.
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    An answer to the Citronelle Kit Kat?
  20. edenman
    As a reference point, the last time I volunteered at DCCK, I was put to work chopping peppers, then opening cans of collards, then making soup.
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    No wonder you have over 1,000 posts
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    There's a bit of discussion about the use of such machines earlier on in this thread, when they were getting ready to open.
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    Wow, looks like it took over the old La Prima location. I used to get sandwiches there all the time when I was at GWU.
  24. edenman
    Anybody else notice that posts are no longer marked "Today" but instead with the full date? Somebody trip over the clock, or was this a deliberate change as part of some upgrade?
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    Oh, it's happening sometime in October, don't you worry.
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