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Gingerbread is the new Pumpkin: Salt & Straw

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2035 NE Alberta • 503.208.3867 • saltandstraw.com

Hours: 12-11pm daily

Just when I thought Salt & Straw’s ice cream couldn’t get any better or their flavors more original, they came out with their holiday flavors!

Gingerbread with Hard Sauce

Sweet Potato Marshmallow

Eggnog with Butter Rum Caramel

and… Peppermint Cocoa

Can't decide on which flavor to get?! Don't forget about their perfect 4-flavor tasting flight!

Yum, yum, yum.  They came out with them the day after Thanksgiving and despite having a food hangover, of course I made the trip to my new favorite dessert locale.  Continue Reading...

In case you weren’t hungry yet…

Filed in: Travel

Here are some gorgeous pictures of delicious looking food that my brother took when he was on a European cruise with his wife recently.  Looks like they got a lot of great meals so I just had to share and make myself, and everyone else, jealous!

Incredible baklava in Athens with "the best ice cream" according to my sister-in-law

Cannolis in Palermo, Italy

Gelato in Barcelona

More gelato!

Delicious looking Spanish sangria!

 

Fruit Heaven! The produce area of the food market off Las Ramblas in Barcelona

 

I think this would make me like coffee.

 

Even more gelato!

  If these pictures didn’t make you hungry (and want a trip to Europe), I’m not sure what will!   Thanks Marshall and Ashley for thinking of me and taking all of these pictures of your food!  Hopefully your cruise-mates didn’t think you were too weird! 🙂

Pie with a Kick: Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie

Filed in: Recipes

Ok, ok… I just wrote a whole blog post about how you shouldn’t mess with traditional recipes on Thanksgiving, like how you should just make a classic pumpkin pie. But this recipe for pecan pie with chocolate and bourbon is just WAY too good to pass up.

I found it in BAKED‘s cookbook, which is one of my favorite bakeries in NYC and by far my favorite baking cookbook, so I knew it had to be good.  I tried it last year for my husband’s family Thanksgiving and sure enough, it was delicious. Continue Reading...