Feed Me Portland!

I’m a lottle* late with my write-up about that hazy, crazy last week of April when it seemed the food universe was spinning around this little burg called Portland. It started off with the convergence of the IACP conference — that’s the International Association of Cooking Professionals. Though I certainly

Do you like pie? Do you like avocados? Do you like avocado pie? You may not know it yet, but, yes, of course you do. Now, when most people think of avocados they think of savory foods: guacamole, turkey sandwiches, cobb salads. And that’s all well and good because I love those things, too. But I have discovered [...]

The good people of the North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission are once again sponsoring a sweet potato recipe contest this year. Last year, I tried my luck with a couple of recipes and this year I am once again throwing my proverbial hat into the ring with two entries. The first, you’ll see below — [...]

Spring sprang, but proved to be a fake-out as often happens here in the fickle northwest. It’s back to being chilly and grey, but no need to let it get you down. Especially not when there’s soup to be had. I felt like a steaming hot bowl of chicken and dumpling soup… but how about [...]

I’ve spent most of my adult life thinking that I had a black thumb. My house plants always died and I managed to off more than a few other people’s plants, too. I was a little fearful when we moved into our current home that had all these living things in the yard. How long would [...]

I just can’t resist a good recipe contest and that’s doubly (triply! 3.14-ly!) true when we’re talking about a math-nerd, pie-based recipe contest. So when I found out about Serious Eats Pi Day contest, I knew this was an opportunity I could not let pass. My first instinct, of course, was to go with a math

Greetings and thanks for stopping by. Canape? This is the blog formerly known as Cap’n Blog and Salty which was once found on www.nerdsonfilm.net. I will still be writing about food, travel and my beloved City of Roses. All of my previous blog entries will still be available here. And, hey!, I might even try to [...]

Attention, readers of this blog! All 4 of you! As promised more than a year ago, I am moving the blog. I will maintain nerdsonfilm.net as a place for travel photo albums and whatnot, but the blog itself gets a new name and home. It will henceforth be known as… Tiny Sandwiches and can be found at [...]

We’ve been home a couple weeks now which I suppose means I should get around to finishing up writing my blog entries about the trip. And what better place to start than with Thanksgiving? Right after we got back from our trip to Vietnam, we headed out to Ban Rai, a pastoral town northeast of Bangkok [...]

thanks to my fans, I got a runner-up prize for my chocolate pretzel instructable. that prize comes with a rad robot t-shirt, stickers and bragging rights. And I’m good at bragging.