Oregon is a mecca for baked goods. It must be the weather. When it’s cold and rainy for most of the year, who wouldn’t want to spend a lot of their time in a warm, steamy kitchen, whisking and stirring and pouring and molding and turning out beautiful nuggets of comfort for friends and family?…
Eating PDX: Lan Su Chinese Garden Tea House
Last month Arne and I spent a week in Oregon to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary… as well as my ability to eat again. (Sorry, OR friends and family… this was a gooey romantic trip, and we made no room for anyone else.) We had a wonderful time and, of course, ate as much as…
Eating ABQ: Fan Tang
I have no idea why it’s taken me so long to post about Fan Tang. I kind of feel like I’ve failed this favorite restaurant of ours, because I didn’t post about it when it was young and struggling. It’s finally becoming popular – if not as popular as it deserves – and now I…
Eating ABQ: Talin Market’s Pop-Up Dumpling Shop!
NOTE: The dumpling shop’s days have changed from Thursdays and Fridays to Fridays and Saturdays. Do not go on Thursday! You will get no dumplings, and you will be sad! I was so excited when I got the event notice from Talin Market’s Facebook page. All it said was “Talin Market Pop-Up Dumpling House starts…
Eating Salt Lake City: Red Iguana
Once a year – well, most years – Arne and I get together with a group of friends we’ve known for a very long time. Some are friends from college, some from high school. Arne even met one of them in third grade! We rent a house in a different location every year, and just…
A Beautiful Second Store for Michael Thomas Coffee
I’m just going to have to deal with it: Michael Thomas Coffee is no longer my neighborhood’s sweet little secret. For years, the shop has been housed in a tiny converted garage on a mostly residential stretch of Carlisle between Central and Gibson. The way I heard the story, the business wasn’t meant to be…
Eating ABQ: Tia B’s La Waffleria
A new eatery opened recently in our neighborhood – Tia B’s La Waffleria. An offshoot of Tia Betty Blue’s – a very popular spot despite its out-of-the-way location – La Waffleria has taken the yummy basis of Betty Blue’s Blue Corn Waffle Boats and spun it into a whole restaurant. A whole restaurant of waffles? We headed there…
Celebrating Life at Joseph’s Culinary Pub in Santa Fe
It is time. Finally. To celebrate. My achalasia ordeal is over. Or, at least, as over as it will ever be. I have recovered from the surgery and the results are better than I dared hope. I can eat most things without concern. Fluffy breadstuffs are still a challenge, but even they go down okay…
Breakfast Burrito at Annapurna Chai House
When my friend suggested we meet at the Annapurna near UNM at 8 a.m., I was surprised. I didn’t even know the place was open before lunch. Turns out it opens at 7:00 for desperate early-morning chai fixes. Our menu choices were very limited – apparently more options come online at 9:00 – but included…
Taco Bell’s Breakfast Menu: Make a Run from the Border
Dear reader, I have desecrated my tongue. Our morning was kind of strange on Saturday. We had planned to go out to breakfast with my mom, but her truck wasn’t starting, so it wasn’t clear when we’d be eating breakfast. Since we’d been planning on going out, I didn’t really have any good breakfast options…