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Buy sockeye salmon now!!! Drilling for oil I that area of Alaska will be a threat to this fish unless its value is proven

sockeye salmon on their menu and/or host a Savor Bristol Bay Dinner to support Bristol Bay’s salmon fishery and protection from threats like the proposed Pebble Mine. A full list of participating restaurants can be found here.

Thanks
Visnja
https://spaceplacehouse.com/

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my garden artichokes

heavy, mysterious and beautiful…why not share, and afterwards I will see if the leaves will close up or if we just cook and eat them as usual

John’s ribs

My husband John used to be a professional cook.  He started at age 16 and worked his way up to chef at the Big Apple Cafe in Rochester, NY.  He is now, years later,a self taught top IOS programmer!!!!!  But, he still loves to cook, especially ribs and buffalo chicken wings, being that he is from the Northern East coast and that his father, born in Missouri, taught him early on how to smoke meats and fish, it still remains his go to fun and satisfying food of his life.  He misses the fat on the ribs here in Portland, but once in a while he lucks out and gets a rare butcher to leave it on so they can retain their juiciness as they slow cook in our back yard smoker/grill.  He will be selling his ribs by preorder to his clamoring programmer buddies and other Portland acquaintances who cannot believe the amazing product he turns out!!!!

He will charge $14/for half rack!!!

Starting July 28!!!

Please place your orders early, as we will need to purchase and prep all the ribs as well do a long smoke on them (yes I will be photographing and writing it up, as well as taking all the orders!!!)

Here are the photos from the last rib cooking session!

from dining room into the attic soon to be large master

from dining room into the basement

sour cherries liqueur

sour cherries from mt. hood valley

sour cherries

sugar

bake in sun for two weeks
stay tuned…

Amazing cherries, small farm but delicious!

And gorgeous blueberries! I got 9 pounds

We have waited a long time to do this part of the project and finally are on our way!

The stairs will go from the main living floor into the basement and above those the stairs to the attic/new living space will be installed.  We will also eventually add a second bathroom upstairs, according to our architect’s drawings it will be another 700 square feet of living space.ImageImageImageImage

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food truck shelf

a cute food truck in portland on Belmont St. had this on their tire shelf! a flower pot, a coffee cup and coffee

a BEAUTIFUL FLOWER

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on my walks

lobelium

miniature forest

nasturtium

pink poppy

lupine

a patch of white

california poppy and love in the mist

bird house on hawthorne

from a small ground level bush

here is a salad I made yesterday, contains spinach, bacon, egg,candied pecans, shaved manchego cheese, vinaigrette dressing

YUMMY

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pink pompom grass

roses and blue siding

california poppy

california wild poppy

garden peonies

orange poppy

orange poppy

mini rapini

micro greens

eggs with faces

mushrooms and forest vegetables

old dog

rhubarb

rhubarb

sedums

My Week!

I scouted old Victorian porch parts in search of a post and other stair elements for the outside front

these are not that old but still cost $9 each so needing 50 of them is way too expensive

this is a house i drove by that had the whole porch already done

Fellini was so cute he pushed his behind in-between these couches when we were eating dinner

tiny flowers in bloom, about 2″ high

john assembled his new desk today, it moves up and down, OMG!!!!!

Fellini still sits in his basket under it undeterred

…and the whole day has been a basement clean out day and organizing day which Crystal has been doing most of!!! YEY!!!

I got the recipe here:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/jacques-torres/croissants-pain-au-chocolat-pain-raisin-and-danish-recipe/index.html

the dough has proofed and has been rolled into a rectangle

the butter is at room temperature

i flattened the butter and laid it on top of the dough

folded the dough over the butter

rolled out the dough again

fold over and refrigerate

flatten again and dollop with almond cream made ahead

sprinkle with rum soaked raisins

roll up into a log

log

log cut into three pieces for freezing

log cut up

proofing three pieces for breakfast overnight in refrigerator