Apparently, we were about two miles away from the Overlook Hotel (aka Timberline Lodge) -- and now I know what our next day-trip excursion is going to be (we didn't actually get to make the hike this time, since the weather was fairly lousy).
Sarah procured a number of zany toys to keep the kids occupied in the event of rain (this turned out to be a very smart strategy). The one shown below was my favorite, mostly because of the subheading:
(Really? What I do with them is up to me? Is it bad that I have always treated my toys this way?)
Coming back (Government Camp is about an hour's ride from PDX), we stopped at a quaint (okay, cheesy) restaurant / coffeehouse / bakery / knick-knack emporium, with the very simple goal of procuring some coffee. This beverage took forever to make, which initially seemed to bode well, since we assumed the barista was a perfectionist. We were wrong -- she was no perfectionist.
Anyway, while wandering through the knick-knack emporium, waiting for my cappuccino, I came across these:
And these:
One could say that my whole career is based on the juxtaposition of unlike things, but I still can't get my head around this bacon + sweet stuff phenomenon.
4 comments:
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, eat the Bacon Gumballs. Learn from my pain.
In the bacon + sweet millieu, I do very wholeheartedly get behind Mo's Milk Chocolate Bacon Bar (by Vosges, a foo-foo chocolate maker), as well as bacon brittle by The Grateful Palate (which could actually use a bit more bacon).
That is all.
On the subject of sweet-bacon things, I submit the following:
Something I Love
Try it, you'll be a believer.
Thanks for the tips, all.
Matt: do you ship to Oregon?
I'm still not sure what to call this genre of food.
@Matt and Jill
Your love bacon (and I'm sure, all things culinary) is why I love you two
ianc
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