Thursday, August 28, 2008

A Great Breakfast

Here's one of mine and my oldest son's favorite breakfast recipies:

Ingredients
2 eggs, scrambled with a dash of milk
Spam, sliced
Directions
Fry in a pan. Repeat as necessary.

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Sad News

Looks like my favorite beer of all time will probably not return.

From: "Webmail @widmer.com" <Webmail.widmer.com@widmer.com>
Date: June 13, 2008 12:18:45 PM EDT
To: Ray
Subject: RE: Craft Brands Contact

Sorry, Ray, STILL no good news. There's talk it may come back in draught form for our restaurant, The Gasthaus, but so far that's all we've heard. No doubt we'll know more by the end of Summer as we transition into OKTO and prepare for our new Winter seasonal (it's called Brrr), but I still wouldn't get your hopes up.

david

Widmer Brothers Brewing Co.
929 N Russell St.
Portland, OR 97227
P (503) 281-2437
F (503) 281-1496


From: Ray
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:00 PM
To: Webmail @widmer.com
Subject: Re: Craft Brands Contact

Dear Widmer Bros.,

Did you change your minds? Snow Plow is by far my favorite beer. Not bringing it back would be a tragedy of epic proportions! Well, maybe that is a slight exaggeration, but I sure would miss it, and I know a lot of others would as well.

Sincerely,

Ray


On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:15 PM, "Webmail @widmer.com" <Webmail.widmer.com@widmer.com> wrote:

Thanks for your email, Ray.

Sorry to hear about your "predicament", but things might not be as dire as you think because we're actually in 48 of the 50 states, including Maryland!

Alas, the Snow Plow issue is a tad more...vexing. Not only is the Snow Plow season over (it was pulled and replaced in early January by our W '08 seasonal), but rumor has it that Snow Plow will NOT be back as the 2008 / 2009 Winter seasonal! Unless Kurt, Rob, and the folks in sales and marketing change their mind it appears that Snow Plow will join the ranks of Hop Jack, Winternacht, Blonde, and a few others as beers whose end came far too soon.

Sorry I don't have better news.

Prost!

Widmer Brothers Brewing Co.
929 N Russell St.
Portland, OR 97227
P (503) 281-2437
F (503) 281-1496

First Name: Ray

Question/Comment: I recently moved from the Portland area to Baltimore, and I miss your beers, especially Snow Plow! Is there any way to order a case?

Brand: shop.widmer.com

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Holy Frijoles!

So here's my first restaurant review. Holy Frijoles is the best Tex-Mex place I've been to in Baltimore, MD so far. The decor is eclectic, somehow authentic in a surreal way if that even makes sense. The wait staff has been excellent the three times I have been there for lunch with my wife and youngest boy (4).

The food is excellent. For starters they bring out the chips and salsa, not the store bought stuff either. I have tasted their tacos, enchiladas, chicken and chorizo taquitos, chicken quesadilla, and my personal favorite so far the refried bean and steak burrito, not a single complaint about any of them. The portions are huge, and the prices are very reasonable.

There's a full service bar there, and they serve a couple Samuel Smith's beers including the Oatmeal Stout and Nut Brown Ale. According to one of the waiters the place is busy on Friday and Saturday nights.


Holy Frijoles is located at 908 w. 36th St., Baltimore, MD 21211

Monday, June 9, 2008

Welcome to the Cart Ride of DOOM!

This is the first post of many to come. Maybe... We'll see how it goes.

What is this "cart ride of doom" I speak of? Well, its a long story... Basically me and some friends used to get on this push cart which had front wheels that automatically wanted to turn forward. We would get on backwards and push off the wall, then it would turn itself forward and if we could keep our balance we would see how far down the hall we could go on one push. Well one day I decided one push wasn't enough. I pushed off the wall, got in a couple pushes with my foot off the floor, and jumped on just as the cart swung around at warp speed. I lost my footing and was violently thrown up in the air while the cart continued on it's merry way. I seemed to be in mid-air horizontally for minutes before I came crashing to the ground, flat on my back, head scraped against the chain link fence that made the walls of the hallway. Uncontrolable laughter ensued for the next twenty to thirty minutes. The event was comemmorated by me with a stick figure comic of the event titled "Bobo's Cart Ride of Doom", which was drawn when we realized that words alone could not do justice to the telling of the story, but the simple comic explained perfectly.

So I have adopted the term "cart ride of doom" as a sort of reminder that sometimes one push is quite enough. Or was it to enjoy the ride while it lasts? Or quit horseplaying before someone gets hurt... Meh, whatever.