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Geekonomic Stimulus Portland Edition: Day 1– Breakfast, Bridges, Books and Branch

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Sunday in Portland: Cameo Café, Bunk Bar, Downtown Portland, Powell’s Books, Dixie Tavern, Branch bar

If Diane Sawyer is to be believed, supporting our country by buying American things is a great way to improve the economy. While buying “Made in America” is not always practical for the average American, I figured going on a “Geekonomic Stimulus” road trip to visit some of the cities on the West Coast might be a fun way to take a well deserved vacation and inject some money into some local economies.

Let’s not worry about the gas money being distributed in large share overseas, I was on vacation here.

The picture below sets the tone of my trip pretty accurately. Portland was a great city, and I had the pleasure of hanging out with Nathanael Cole, online friend who I have now met in the “meatspace” and also the creator of Motobushido, among other games. It was great to have such a talented and creative guy as my first tour guide to the city of Portland!

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A Rib Eye Roast for the Holidays

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Merry Christmas, Happy New Years, and Happy Holidays to everyone.

You can take that as spiritually or as secularly as you’d like.

But if you’re in that giving sort of mood, I will unobtrusively mention that my e-cookbook, Farewell To Foie Gras: The Food and Drink of Arduise, is now Pay What You Want on DriveThru, and it makes a great (virtual) stocking stuffer, if you’re really a last minute type!

Something about Christmas just makes me want to roast things, so I considered it a wonderful Christmas eve opportunity this year when my parents brought home a 6.5 pound rib eye roast and asked me to look for some recipes for the night.

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The Update Post–A long time coming!

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Hey readers, it has been a while, and I promised to give an update post on where I’ve been and what has been going on. Well, here it is.

Things officially got crazy for me around the end of 2012, and here we are, almost at the end of 2013. I had mentioned that I was substituting, and seemed well on my path to becoming a teacher. Plans switched suddenly and thanks to some connections, I ended up working at a startup as a QA Analyst. I think I’ve managed to become even geekier by landing a job in tech.

It’s been a blast and I’m still having a lot of fun there. I’m not going to say what the company is here, but if you snoop around enough I’m sure you could find out.

I will post this picture of Maisy though, who is often at the office.

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Her title is Officer of Morale, and she does a damn good job of it too.

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After Thanksgiving Leftover Turkey Soup

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Well, it is the eve of Thanksgiving, so I thought it would be appropriate to share one way I like to work with my leftovers. Don’t get me wrong, I love turkey sandwiches as much as the next person (with leftover gravy, cranberry sauce, and stuffing too) but sometimes you want something warm and filling. These are actually pictures from last year that I’ve been holding onto for precisely this occasion.

It does take a bit of time to make this turkey soup, which calls on you to make stock from the bones of your roasted turkey. So you’ll want to get started early, and maybe have a piece of pie for breakfast, or make one of those leftover sandwiches to tide you over.

And yeah, a great way to use up those bones, and this approach to leftovers really appeals to my holistic approach to using ingredients and stuff in the kitchen.

This won’t precisely be a recipe, but more of guidelines really.

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Man, I’ve really been stuck on soup lately haven’t I? Don’t worry, I’ll make other things soon.

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