Just a heads up: I had the oysters at each of these restaurants. I can’t help it; it’s a personal rule. Coast = seafood, and my favorite seafood is oyster. But I did sample a few other dishes at these restaurants, and nothing disappointed. (And I’m fairly sure that wasn’t just because of all the… [Read more…]
August 11, 2011
The best street food in the world seems to contain the word 'balls,' and you can quote me on that.
May 26, 2011
Confession #1: I thought a clam gun was an actual gun. I mean, not a gun gun. As I listened to my fellow writers, Oregon natives who remember back when razor clam hunting involved a shovel, discuss during dinner how careful you have to be not to break the clam’s shell when using the gun,… [Read more…]
April 22, 2011
I considered titling this My First Press Trip. Like a child’s board book. Sally’s First Tooth. Cheesy, right? But this month I was lucky enough to land what was indeed my first press trip as a travel writer, and pretending that the experiences that followed are old hat to me seems decidedly not transparent. The… [Read more…]
June 15, 2010
From My Sphere of Domesticity: Two for Tuesday! Post two of anything: book reviews, pictures, quotes, poems, songs, videos, rants, shout outs, whatever floats your boat. Just connect them somehow. That’s it. 1. A Job This past week I started a new job as the Local Expert on Seattle for Nile Guide! Duties include updating… [Read more…]
March 31, 2010
…says the girl about to move into the tiniest of apartments. With pretty much no furniture. I like having money to travel, buy instruments, and…you know, pay bills and eat and stuff. But it’s never been a big motivator as far as how I decide what I want to do with my life. (Let’s think… [Read more…]
January 16, 2010
Don’t gag. This is good stuff, folks. Today was one of those days where my stomach begged me for a good vegetarian meal. This one was incredibly easy, tasted great, and had a surprisingly fluffy texture: Butternut Squash and Quinoa Gratin. Peel and cube a butternut squash or two, spread them on a baking sheet,… [Read more…]
December 2, 2009
Tonight, we went from planning on leftover soup for dinner to a full-on Indian feast. Mom made this fish recipe, using tilapia and ginger-garlic paste. We used coconut oil to fry them, and added curry leaves to crisp in the oil before putting in the fish. The curry leaves, which have a really unusual (and… [Read more…]
November 25, 2009
In all the excitement of my FIRST THANKSGIVING IN TWO YEARS (!!!!!!!!), I nearly forgot to jump in on Road Trip Wednesday, brought to you by yaHighway! Today’s question: What hobbies do you have besides writing? Two definite hobbies of mine are reading (of course) and cooking/eating. Reading about cooking/eating is particularly great. I’ll read… [Read more…]
November 10, 2009
Yesterday we all sat down to watch Food, Inc (which was great, by the way). I first read Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation and Chew On This right before moving to Brazil, and it was one of the major reasons I became a raw foodist for a few months, and vegetarian for nearly a year.… [Read more…]
November 14, 2011
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