A Sweet Start to Monday

Photos of our past week will appear later today, I promise, but I wanted to kick you off to a sweet start today. Warning: I can not be held accountable for any mad rushes to the pantry or vending machine for a sweet snack caused by viewing the following photos.

Last week the Whole Foods Market Portland metro held a first ever combined Team Member appreciation party. It was pretty awesome to see over 1000 Team Members and their families milling about. Each store’s bakery team crafted a cake, to represent each store in the metro. We left before getting a slice, but man, did they look tasty.

Loving the talent and creativity of my coworkers.

Happy Monday!

Week in Review

Week In Review: Worky Work, Heirloom Beans, Serious Bed Head, and a Kick Ass Bracelet

Basketball, Ikea, & Culinary Arts: Week in Review

 

Big Eats, Big Game, Big Week in Review

Week in Review: giggles and ramen

Week in Review

Just Eat This: Dholl Puri

 

Searching for a soy free grab and go dinner the other evening, I ran across this lovely at the Laurelhurst Whole Foods Market. Produced by Chez Dodo, Dholl Puri is a traditional Mauritian street food. Flat bread is stuffed with beans and vegetables, and when heated is both absolutely delicious, and a carb lover’s dream: bread, beans, potatoes.

 

I would guess that this could, when accompanied with rice, some veggies, a salad, feed two, but I ate it all. And I don’t regret it one bit.

Here’s where I, again, disclose that I work for Whole Foods Market, and the views expressed and mine, and mine alone.

Just Eat This: Cookies from Kim Boyce’s Bake Shop

The cookies at Kim Boyce’s Bake Shop are not for wusses. No soft bake, barely cooked centers here. These cookies, roughly the size of a tea cup saucer, are baked to krispy (intentionally spelled with a k so you fully get how krispy the crumb is) perfection, with each bite yielding a browned sandy crumb.

Ella and I went to check out Kim’s new bakery, Bake Shop New Years Eve, and learned our lesson the hard way, get there early for the best selection. Only open from 7am-2pm, we were lucky to get the last sweet and salty cookie when we rolled in at noon.

Just a buck apiece. Heaven.

Week In Review: The Week In Between