Well, we did it. After months and months of training, hundreds of hours of swimming, biking, and running, and thousands of hours thinking about (and dreading) this race, we completed our first half Ironman in Victoria, British Columbia! Eric, Megan, and I, along with our incredible support team of Jordan and Nathaniel, made the drive…
community supported agriculture: week 2.
If you’re just joining us, this is a little series detailing what we receive in our CSA share and how we go about eating it each week. You can read a little more about all things CSA (and catch some recipe ideas from last week) here. We really had to fly through this week’s share,…
berry pretzel pie.
Berries strike again! Are you sensing a theme in my eating life? Since I picked 8 1/2 pounds of fresh, juicy, incredibly red, cutting board staining strawberries, our meals, desserts, and snacks kind of centered around strawberries for a week. As it should, because fresh berries are the key to happiness. But not the key…
oneonta gorge.
I think it’s safe to say that summer is here. Generally, Oregonians claim that summer starts on July 5, but my intense sock tan and constant sweat stream (I paint a beautiful picture, yes?) tell me that summer came early this year. And that means it’s time to spend lots of time in the Columbia…
strawberry parfaits with bourbon whipped cream.
It’s officially strawberry season here in Oregon, and I am thrilled. I went out to Sauvie Island last week to do a little strawberry picking at Bella Organic. Sidenote from a Portland newbie: Did you know Sauvie Island is actually an island in the Columbia River? I had no idea. Obviously, this makes sense, but…
community supported agriculture: week 1.
In an attempt to eat seasonally, support local farms, and lower our grocery bill, we signed up for a CSA. “CSA” stands for Community Supported Agriculture, where we pay a local farm at the beginning of the season for a share of their weekly harvest for the growing season. We were a part of a…
whole wheat cinnamon raisin bagels.
I woke up the other day craving bagels. Specifically, a cinnamon raisin bagel. I don’t know that I’ve ever craved a bagel before. I have certainly craved marionberry cream cheese with an intensity most of you wouldn’t understand, but on this particular day, I desperately wanted a bagel. But rather than pay for the immediate…
beacon rock.
Hey, hey, Washington. Once again, we remembered that we live just across the river from another state, and ventured into Washington for a hike at Beacon Rock in the Columbia River Gorge. And guys, this trail is an engineering marvel. Look at this thing. As soon as you get started on the Beacon Rock hike,…
coffee and doughnuts ice cream.
Oh my goodness. This ice cream. As you may recall from the Portland Donut Crawl, I promised to make ice cream with doughnuts from the winning shop. Pip’s Original came out way, way, way on top, so I picked up a few dozen cinnamon sugar doughnuts and got experimenting with ice cream. And self-control. I…
the portland donut crawl (everything you want to know).
We finished the Portland Donut Crawl! If you haven’t been following along for the past few months, Eric and I have been on a quest for the best donut in Portland. We ended up tasting donuts from 13 (!!!) different shops around town. And if that doesn’t give you a mad case of the sugar…
the portland donut crawl (part 4).
This is the final tasting round for the Portland Donut Crawl, folks! Boy, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into when we started this thing. In the beginning, it seemed like we’d have a relatively short list of wonderful donuts to try. In the end, we’ve tasted WAY too many donuts, which…
summer salsa.
I know it’s not quite summer yet. And I know I’m currently curled up under a blanket, wishing these gray skies would turn blue, and seriously contemplating turning the heat on again. But if you close your eyes, turn on some summer jams, and eat this salsa, it’s pretty close to the real deal. This…
mccall point trail.
After the winter-that-wasn’t, spring came early around here. The giant tree outside our window transformed from bare to flowered, to completely green, seemingly overnight. I went for a run in Forest Park this week and was shocked by all the color. Everything is green. Flowers are blooming everywhere. The sun is shining. The weather is…
our first wetsuit swim.
Good news. I successfully got my wetsuit on all the way. For those of you following along, you might remember my first wetsuit attempt from last week. It was rough. We were supposed to do an hour long open water swim on Saturday as part of our triathlon training. We spent quite a while pondering…
banana orange burst muffins.
Eric and I are now the proud owners of our very own wetsuits. We need wetsuits for the swim portion of our Canadian half-Ironman (read: swimming 1.2 miles in a cold lake in the great, white north), and after months of avoiding actually purchasing them, we finally bit the bullet and ordered some this week….
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