Yesterday was a bit of a rough day. We started out the day with Rupert attacking Sean's face while he was still sleeping, and it came to a close with Rupert charging around the house and leaping until his head hit a solid object, most notably my printer. It was a long day.We were craving yummy hot subs for dinner, and decided to find a sub shop to fill our bellies. We tried Michael's on SE Sandy and 11th, since it got great online reviews for it's cheap eats and greasy goodness.
Unfortuntately, Michael's is some sort of "Chicago style" place, and they didn't have a grilled veggie sub on the menu (which is all I wanted in the world at that moment). I will warn you all now, if you go into a sub shop that doesn't have a grilled veggie sub on the menu, just turn around. I asked if they could make me one anyway, since I just wanted onions, peppers and mushrooms, with some melted cheese, but they said no. They didn't have any mushrooms. I should have known it would be bad news since they didn't serve pizza, but they kept mentioning their "pizza style" subs, or some such nonsense.
I ended up getting a sub that involved cold bread, with hot marinara sauce (which was actually good), half an inch of cold American and Provolone cheese, grilled tomatoes and one slice of grilled pepper. Too bad I don't like tomatoes.
They didn't even have eggplant parm available! This is the first time I've been really homesick for something in Massachusetts. If anyone reading this has an Italian sub/pizza shop near them, please go out there and eat a good hot sub for me. I'll be thinking of you...
Tonight, Sean was craving fruits and veggies, and we just happened to inherit a couple freezer bags full of frozen strawberries that Suzie had picked last year. They were a little freezer burned, but if you add enough juice and vodka, that isn't a problem at all.
We decided to make grilled veggie burritos, a la Anna's Taqueria from back east, since it was a gorgeously warm day, and the smell of freshly-mowed lawn made us itch to bust out the grill.
We picked up all the ingredients we needed at Trader Joe's and Limbo's (the organic market) up the block. It wasn't a cheap meal, but I'm still impressed at the amazingly cheap prices on produce at Limbo's.
We made guacamole and salsa, fired up our little grill out front and grilled up everything else you see in the photo. We added black beans, cheddar cheese and sour cream.
Let me tell you, if you've had a bad food experience, the only thing to do is massively out-cook that disappointment away. And a couple strawberry daiquiris certainly don't hurt, either.
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I can relate to the food disappointment thing. Dad and I are experimenting with making cosmopolitans. Unfortunately I didn't read the label too well on the cranberry juice I bought specifically for the drinks. I wondered why it didn't have enough cranberry flavor - only to find out I bought cranberry juice cocktail. The first ingredient was water, followed by grape juice. Then came the cranberry and some other juices. What good is this??? We went out the next day and bought real cranberry juice. The results were quite delicious!
I've done that exact same thing with the cranberry juice cocktail! Yuck.
We haven't gotten into cosmos yet though. I'll add it to the list.
We're still trying to find cheaper things to drink, but all the good beer and liquor is expensive! Pdx has a lot of craft distillers (and brewers), so there are a lot of fun things we will need to try when we get rich. :)
I know it's none of my business, and you probably already know about this. Have you discovered this place?
http://www.hopworksbeer.com/
Right around your corner. Their Pizza guy is from Philadelphia. So, he probably has Italian sauce in his veins. And I bet they have mushrooms. If I lived there, I'd check it out. Looks like a great place. But, I've bin wrong lota time. Didge Dude.
I hadn't heard about that place--thanks for pointing it out! What do you mean it's none of your business? We're always looking for recommendations of places to go (we have a whiteboard on the fridge that we encourage all our guests to add restaurants to).
There's so much right in our neighborhood, but we'll try to get to every place eventually. :)
It looks like Hopworks isn't the cheap-o neighborhood subshop we're still searching for, but they sure do sound good. We can try it out when you come for a visit! (P.S. a lot of places in Portland sound like this! You'd love it.)
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