Our daughter, The Lovely Lisa, is here for Father's Day weekend with her boyfriend, Lenny. The kids went for a hike early this morning, DT went for a run and I stood in front of the stove, doing what I enjoy most: preparing foods for my family.
I made my (sort of) famous fried breakfast scramble - diced potatoes, turkey sage sausage, red peppers, onions and scrambled eggs. Before serving, the scramble is topped with cubed sharp cheddar. The cheese melts into the savory, satisfying one-dish breakfast. We also had a few of those lovely Hood Strawberries that have finally made it to the local markets despite the constant pouring Oregon rain.

Later, we took Lenny downtown to walk through the Portland Saturday Market - a craft, food and music venue along the Willamette River. In some sort of freaky nature thing, it was not raining this morning in Portland. So, first stop, Lisa needed sunglasses. Luckily there are several booths selling $10 sunglasses at the market.


The Willamette River flows through Portland, Oregon and there are ten bridges crossing the river. Each bridge is unique.

Lisa decided she wanted to re-live her childhood and have an Elephant Ear. If you don't know... an Elephant Ear is a piece of sweet yeasty dough patted-out to a round shape - much like a pizza crust - deep-fried and then dredged in cinnamon sugar. The resulting puffy disk resembles an Elephant Ear (I guess).




This may be a good time to write about one of the most popular bumper stickers in town: KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD.

We gave Lenny a drive-by tour of Portland and then went to lunch at Kenny & Zuke's Delicatessen. This local deli cures their own pastrami, corned beef and kosher salami from organically-raised Oregon beef.



Plus, the deli is in one of the oldest and most interesting neighbors in downtown Portland.


Jen recommended the restaurant to Lisa and we enjoyed fabulous meals - all organic, farm-to-table fare. How was Jen to know tonight was the Portland World Naked Bike Ride event? And how was Jen to know the Portland World Naked Bike Ride started in front of clarklewis restaurant?



Until my next update, I remain, your Portland correspondent.