My Favorite Things...123...Tater Tots & What Nots
Gourmet, gourmand...tomato, tomahto, you decide!
I whole heartedly recommend a terrific site started by Jane and Michael Stern called roadfood.com...I used this site to find local eateries in Portland. Whenever I go to a new city, I plan ahead, so that I can find out where the natives like to eat...
One of the places we really enjoyed was Jake's Famous Crawfish in the downtown historic area of Portland. Penny and I shared the Macadamia Nut encrusted Halibut (which was in season when we were there)...it was de-lish. They also had a desert that was really yummy...if a picture is worth a thousand words, drool along with me.
I'm thinking that this looks like a dessert I'd like to try to make at home...you can see that the chocolate "box" was made by pouring chocolate into a paper bag. Inside was a white chocolate mousse and there were oodles of berries and a berry coulis too. For me, this was a perfect dessert...the strong and rich taste of the dark chocolate, the creamy softness of the mousse, and the not too-sweet berries...Plus it was HUGE, so we all had our fill.
Here's a picture of a couple of the adjoining rooms at Jake's, you could tell that the restaurant had grown from one room to another over the years; the place was ginormous (and packed!). There were nostalgic landscape canvases painted on the upper walls of one room, and antique oyster platters displayed over the doors in the next...
There's lots more to show and tell of course...
Back in two shakes...H2
Sorry Holly...got stuck at the desert. That looks heavenly!
Posted by: Lynne in Hawaii | June 25, 2008 at 08:02 PM
The food looks yummy where ever you end up!
Posted by: pam | June 26, 2008 at 02:04 AM
Mmmmmmm that desert has me wordless.
Posted by: Joan | June 26, 2008 at 03:58 AM
I love that chocolate bag! Yummy...drool drool :o)
Posted by: Jane Weston | June 26, 2008 at 01:13 PM
chocolate...white chocolate mousse...and berries
sounds fan-tabulous.
Posted by: rachel | June 26, 2008 at 03:12 PM
Hi Holly - love your designs. When I got married 11 years ago, one of my wedding presents was the "herb" canister set that you designed for CIC. I recently broke the largest one of the set and have been frantically searching on the net and ebay to see if I can find a replacement. Do you know if the set is still being manufactured?
Posted by: Mary Puskar | July 06, 2008 at 11:48 AM