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Thursday, July 23, 2009
Biking to grab CSA veggies, pickled cherries and a pint
Pardon the break from Relishing Austin, but for the next 10 days, I’ll be relishing the West coast on a road trip from Portland, Ore., to San Diego with my husband and travel buddy, Ian. I’ve promised everyone not to work too hard on this vacation, but I can’t resist the opportunity to share the food discoveries we make along the way.
First up is Portland, where yesterday, my dear friend Rachel led us on a bike tour of her Killingsworth area. One of the errands we had to run was picking up her CSA basket (from a community-supported agriculture program). In a land where 85 degrees is considered hot (which if you’re like most Portlanders and don’t have air conditioning, it is), the produce shares look considerably different than those in Austin at this point in summer: Snow peas, lettuce, baby greens, garlic, a few zucchini, etc.
The most interesting thing on the menu today was a pickle plate at a Wisconsin-esque pub called Saraveza. Pickled green beans, onions, beets asparagus and, of all things, cherries, served with a Double Mountain Scottish Ale called Idle Hands.
Of all the progressive food-related things I’ve seen in Portland (more on that when I get back), this fermentation festival was one of the coolest:
Next stop: The Southern Oregon coast! Feel free to leave me suggestions of where to eat in the comments…
For fun while I’m gone, give your haiku muscles a work out with @foodinhaiku, a Twitter account I set up recently. You can direct message your haiku (remember the syllable pattern? It’s 5, 7, 5) to @foodinhaiku and it will automatically repost in the feed. (Another reminder: In order to direct message someone, they have to be following you. I’ve got my Twitter monkeys working hard to make sure @foodinhaiku follows everyone back so you should be able to direct message the account soon after following.)
Here’s a haiku inspired by (non) plane food:
Three bucks for peanuts / Ten cents per nut. What a rip. / Should just buy a drink
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