At 7pm on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 a book was born. It's got some baby fat (10,000 words longer than contractually agreed) and it needs help with, well, everything but I did it and I feel great. To celebrate on Tuesday I went to EaT Oyster Bar with friends.
I'd heard that every Tuesday night EaT offers one or more types of raw oysters at $1 a piece but I hadn't been by for that although I've been to EaT a fair few times. I started with a sazerac and six oysters on the half shell -- petites from Oregon and Washington. 18 delicious raw oysters and a couple glasses of muscadet later I was on top of the world.
Yesterday I slept in and after I had a cup of strong coffee in my not-typing hands I stepped outside to see what was going on in the garden. The past couple weeks I only watered a couple times since my focus was elsewhere. Lucky for me we've had some heavy rain recently so rather than meeting a bunch of withered and neglected plants I got this...
My garden loves me
And if that's not good enough last night my boyfriend came home with a 5-gallon carboy of freshly pressed cider, a bottle of homemade hard cider and a bottle of fresh apple juice all from a fellow who's a client at my boyfriend's tattoo shop. We talked with this man at the Portland Fermentation Festival and it turns out he has a pretty awesome home set up for juicing apples that involves a big stainless sink and a garbage disposal just for that purpose. Anyway he just got done with his fall pressing and generously gifted us 5 gallons of the sweet, golden stuff to ferment into hard cider. All he asks is that we save him a bottle or two of the bubbly in the spring. What a guy. We cracked open the hard cider last night and the celebration continued.
Up next on the blog -- DIY cheese in Portland...
EaT Oyster Bar 3808 N Williams 503.281.1222 www.eatoysterbar.com