My New Love – Chipotle Cheese

Discovered Chipotle Cheese in the best grocery store on the west coast – Winco Foods, and absolutely love it. I love pepper jack, so it is no surprise that I would love Chipotle cheese as well. I think this Chipotle is spicier than the pepper jack from the same store.

A taste of Palm Beach

I was in the neighborhood of NE 28th; so I stopped at the well-celebrated PDX stylish restaurant Pambiche for lunch.
(Forget the Cuban names on the Menu, so here is the English name/description)
Drink: Cuban Latte - it was sweet and creamy ($3.25)
Lunch: Stuffed Fried Dumpling with Potato and cheese. Beet Salad and fried banana. ($7.75)

This is how Asian does Dinner - Instant Noodle

Instant Noodle is huge in Asian, and I am not talking about American Ramen (we trick Ramen out, too).
So it is a cool afternoon, and I really want something spicy for dinner. So I pulled out Mr. Kong Instant Noodle Sichuan favor. I been saving it for a long time, but I feel like eating it today :)

I added some Kale and imitation crab meat. It looked like a noodle bowl from a Vietnam Noodle Stand. (see picture: I so need to work on my presentation.) Anyway, it was a good bowl of noodle and it was spicy.

Colorful Berries for Marathon TV party.

Going to a Mad Man Marathon party tomorrow. (The season premier is at 10 pm tomorrow). Got 6 pins of berries. Black, Raspberry, and blue, 2 pins each. The Blackberry looks really delicious. Hope I won't eat them all before tomorrow.
Should we make pie or cocktails out of these berries.

(cost of berries: $18. One pin usually goes for $3 around the farmer's market here in Portland, Oregon)

Mac and Cheese - trick out version

I brought tons of these cheap under ¢50 Mac and Cheese packages. Because of the amazing cook that I am, I put some WOW into the basic Mac and Cheese.

I added some bigger macaroni to mixed it up; then some corn, carrot, bean mix along with some chopped Spinach. Finally, two Kosher sausages (thanks to Costco). For cheese, I add some Pepper Jack - what, I love spicy food. (I actually add some red chilly pepper flakes.)

Oh, I didn't.

Every Sunday is my Store Ad day. I went to almost all of the Electronic shops and view their weekly ads. My recent love - digital camera. This is how I brought my current digital camera.

So with one decent digital camera (Nikon, btw) in possession, and I am still looking. And I found one - GE A950 for $79.99 (9 mega pixel, 5x optical room).
My first reaction was – GE makes digital camera? I got check it out.
It was popular, because it was sold out when I went to the Radio Shack close to my work. The second one I went to, they just got a new shipment.

Well, yes - I will return it. I would say it is not advance enough for me. Okay, I wasn't expecting that much according to the price. The thing is that there were not a lot of options when it comes to manual shooting. As far as the camera goes, the most annoying thing is, the mode dial and the shot button are both on the right' but the mode dial is at the farthest right, and the shot button is inside. So your finger had to cross the mode dial to reach the shot button. Trust me, it bothered the hell out of me. As for the picture quality, it is pretty decent. I guess I should not have taken it when I saw the package. (Please stop with the hard plastic package. It's a pain in the ass to open it.)

Summer Retrace - Cape Meares (Lighthouse), July 25 2009

Cape Meares is a fun place to stop along US highway 101. It has a lighthouse, and cliffs and the Octopus Tree (see picture). Of course, a great view of the ocean and the rocks.

It is a great place to see the ocean and have a little picnic.