UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports

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UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports

slow cooker

tested our slow cooker out yesterday with a nice pulled pork. the night before i was to make it, i rubbed the pork with a spice mixture of equal parts brown sugar and a spicy red powder that forget to label - it's not a chile powder, but it's spicier than a paprika...i think it's hungarian paprika...so i did about a 1/3 cup of each of those. then about a 1/4 cup of the following: salt, garlic powder, black pepper...thats pretty much it for the rub....rubbed it all in, massaged the pork shoulder...covered it and put it in the fridge over night...

next morning at about 6:45 am, sliced up a couple fat slices of red onion. put then in the bottom of the slow cooker. then, put the pork shoulder on top of the onions, fatty side up. drizzled some worchetshire over it, some hot sauce, a little apple cider vinegar and some bbq sauce. added a tiny bit of water in the bottom. turned it on low, covered it up and jetted to work.

on my way home from work, i stopped at safeway and copped some french bread rolls, some cole slaw and some pickles.

when i opened the door to my house, the smell hit me like a ton of bricks and MAN DID IT SMELL BLAZING! wow...so good...that bbq smell...ummm...i opened the top of the slow cooker and pulled apart that pork in like 20 seconds with two forks...it was sooo tender it fell right apart..there was a little bone in the middle and it came right off... now since it sat for like 10 hours in a steamer, it was a little dry...i cracked open a Bridegport Black Strap Stout and poured 1/3 of the dark beer in and finished the rest...added some more hot sauce, some more bbq sauce, mixed everything up and covered it back up for about an hour till Mel got home. best bbq pork ever she said and the rest was history.

oh yeah, cut open your roll...throw some slaw on that baby, cut a pickle in 1/2 and put both halves on the roll and cover w/ a couple large gobs of pulled pork.

just another fresh recipe from Chef Boy-R-P.

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mecs visit

our girl meca aka jenny from the block came to visit us for the weekend...mecs is a travellin girl, from the philippines to virginia beach to philly to san fran....she's a big time trooper, as she woke up at 4:45 am this morning and flew back down to SF and went to work today...after going to bed at around 1 the night before...so sorry voodoo doughnuts was closed, that was a bummer...good times though this weekend, besides the hour and a half spent at buffalo exchange or whatver...i had to lie down on the ground stinke-style as a que that it was time to jet to these girls...peace though, mel and i had a blast and are really happy you came. more pics to come soon of widmer brewery, shang hai (aka pland silk city), dope train pics, and oh yeah, i love my penis. you'll see what i mean. i really do, though...

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freezing

man portland is cold today..these arctic windchills coming down from alaska sting...hopefully it'll go back to how it's been though, gorgeous...

melenie landed the full-time teaching gig she's been working hard on at joyful noise downtown, a nice preschool/kindergarten...

ive been cooking great meals as usual...some awesome pico de gallo the other night w/ strawberries, cucumbers, thai chillies, red onion, cilantro, lime, olive oil and tomates...rocked that w/ some corn tostadas, grilled ckn and rice and beans.... last night, broiled some pork chops after rubbing them the night before w/ cajun seasoning... some roasted garlic (1 hr in the oven w/ olive oil), and fresh dill blended into the mashed..amazing...and some steamed broc and baby corns w/ lots of lemon...

peace to meca isa coming to visit this weekend.... stinks, watch out, son...it's on!

Dr. Dog

wanted to let y'all know about my old roomate, tadd's little brother's band, Dr. Dog. They're really good, sound Beatles white albumish and are doing great...on a huge european tour right now with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

check Dr. Dog out.

gorgeous day in portland at mt. tabor park

so mt. tabor is an extinct volcano that is now a picturesque park in portland. it was like 65 or something and totally sunny today..we packed some food and reading materials and went for a hike/chill day in the park....back home in philly there was about a foot of snow...

grammys

the grammys were all that last night!

jay-z and linkin park rockin "yesterday" w/ paul mcartney... madonna & the gorillaz w/ de la... john legend, kanye and jamie... oh and the best one was mary j blige w/ u2 doing "one"... she killed it...she was amazing! props to all the performers, it was the best grammy's i've personally ever seen....

lisa loeb

i know my fam checks this but so do my friends. and i gotta represent now and again with something more interesting than family pics. so here ya go, do y'all remember lisa loeb? well peep her now:
http://www.thesuperficial.com/archives/2006/01/31/lisa_loeb_in_a_thong.html

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falls/timberline/voodoo doughnuts

here are some pics from multnomah falls, timberline lodge on mt. hood and voodoo doughnuts:

(stories to come later...)

GO SEAHAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

reiter fam visit

fam visitation time, visiting the kennedy school, as discussed in a past post. an elementary school turned into a bar/hotel/movie theatre/pool. very good time...

crib pics...

pics from my new crib, a long time coming...