Posted 10:46 PM

october had a lot of traveling, for work & play:

* trader joe's chicken tikka masala
* cherry pepsi
* pho when i was sick
* eating at the coast: steamed clams (delicious!), cake i had to eat with a room key because i had no utensils (but that experience has prompted me to always carry a spork), meatloaf burger (really delicious but i shouldn't have ordered tater tots AND salad), pizza, orange julius
* sukkot w/ jalex: butternut squash soup, salad, roasted vegetables, cabbage slaw, chicken broccoli alfredo, homemade challah & butter, cake & ice cream, a tiny bit of menage a trois wine & even less manischevitz
* peanut butter & pumpkin pie sandwich split w/ sven
* bob's red mill soup mix & arugula salad
* in seattle: hand pies, ice cream & chocolate w/ dang and then thai w/ brian & reed, and then a mountain dew for the way home
* pearl bakery gibassier after sven lost his hat
* bento box w/ salmon teriyaki, tempura, california rolls, lavendar lemonade
* mio "green thunder" which tastes like cough syrup :P
* chicken mcnuggets
* cheese plate: delicious rarebit, melon with coriander & salt, basil lemonade
* elephant's deli cobb salad
* elephant's deli raspberry chiffon cake
* elephant's deli red quinoa roasted carrot salad
* elephant's deli sandwiches chips and part of a pepsi at ohsu
* new seasons roast beef sandwich
* a bunch of "social crackers"
* new seasons samosas
* "smoked" lasagne from stoked bbq & breadsticks (SO GOOD. i bought extra just to freeze for later)
* maple waffle from whoo hoo waffles
* apple pies from london pasty company
* sven's homemade butternut squash soup
* part of a beef burrito w/ beans salsa & chips at lebanon
* part of a v8 fusion
* a mountain dew voltage (gaaaaaaack!)
* cherry pie & shortbread cookie from lebanon store (that shortbread cookie was very good, but when i went back the next week they didn't have them)
* chili cheese corndog from the other lebanon market
* biwa w/ brian: sashimi trout set w/ gyoza, salad, soup, lamb, cantaloupe shiso sorbet, genmai soda, black pepper soda
* wendy's w/ brian: single, fries, wild berry lemonade though i asked for tea, some of brian's frosty
* part of a berry frio at the convention center (good but i was too full to drink the whole thing!)
* a chicken taco bowl at lebanon
* a piece of chocolate john gave us
* a "pizza stick"
* some potato chips
* a breakfast sandwich
* a pizza stick
* a bean & beef burrito
* a fountain pepsi
* a roast beef sandwich
* a can of pepsi
* chips
* cookie
* veggie grill: baja salad, half of sven's hot wings & part of an arnold palmer
* some frozen yogurt after whitebird
* some chicken tacos w/ rice, chips, salsa & refried beans
* tamale & bean & beef burrito
* a square of honeycomb chocolate
* black bean soup from a mix that i still managed to screw up (pressure cooking for an hour made everything taste like mud -- but the beans were nicely cooked)
* at uws: string cheese, bitters, granola bar, a slice of turkey roll, a few mini twix
* arugula salad w/ sahale pistachios
* a slice of pizza
* speculoos and cookies
* cheese plate w/ sven after open studios: rarebit, mushroom pate & spiced apple cider
* mushrooms stuffed w/ pepper cream cheese
* sour cream & onion chips (thanks sven)
* chicken chili soup mix (better!)
* baked potato w/ bacon bits, butter, sour cream, chives, cheddar cheese, fried onions, steak seasoning
* halloween candy
* samosa & chutney
* apple & cheese
* potato corn chowder soup mix (eh)
* speculoos on cookies
* sven's homemade rarebit & cabbage salad
* harry & david galettes
* trader joe's meat & potatoes (not bad, esp. w/ steak seasoning added!)
* spaghetti & meatballs & a roy rogers from cartlandia
* a small new seasons apple pie
* fruit at ohsu
* burgerville pumpkin smoothie & chicken tenders w/ honey mustard
* a taste of sven's homemade caramel
* leftover meat & potatoes w/ sven's sauteed mushrooms
* sven's homemade cabbage salad
* sf trip w/ sven for einstein on the beach: apricots, crackers, two taco bell bean burritos, mcdonald's coke, carl's jr hamburger cold fries & coke, several small cokes at leeann & dean's
* smoked gouda, bread, apples, figs, lemon cake, samosa, butterscotch cookie at sunnyvale farmer's market
* coke slurpee at 7-11 at the end of a long day's explorations
* dean's homemade scallops pasta & salad
* honey bun
* poached egg w/ toast & leeann's homemade orange jam
* sonic burger (meh) with cheddar peppers, tater tots w/ chili, cherry limeade slushee
* burrito supreme, apple empanada, and coke at taco bell