Holiday Express 2014

All Aboard!

For many years, I always want to ride the Holiday Express. What prevented me for doing so were always the weather factors. Either it was too cold or too wet. Today was a perfect morning, a bit cold but not that foggy. Not a bad day indeed. So, I present you with the Santa Express to Portland from Oaks Park in Milwaukee. Enjoy the ride. All Aboard!

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2014/express

Holiday Cookies 2014

Hazelnut Shortbread Cookies

Holiday Cookies is definitely the biggest event of our BCI (Beaverton Culinary Institute) event of the year. This is our final gathering for 2014. Our next meeting will be in the spring of 2015, but I forgot the theme. I did suggest Southern cooking, but we will see. I believe if my calculation is correct, we made twelve different cookies for this event. As always, it was a organized but chaotic time, but at the end all cookies were baked and we had a hell of a good time. Enjoy the images, sorry no samples!

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2014/cookies

Hurd Culinary Institute

This is the first cooking “class” that we had, notice at that time it was not called Beaverton Culinary Institute (known as simply BCI), but we started with Hurd Culinary Institute. We made Pierogi (Polish style). It is hard to believe it was almost 5 years ago from this date of writing.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/recipe/pierogi

Happy Thanksgiving 2014

Happy Thanksgiving 2014

This year we were invited once again to the home of Steve and Joan to celebrate 2014 Thanksgiving. There are a lot to be thankful this year, but the one and foremost important thing is our health. Also, this year we have two guests from Minnesota, Rachael and Jason.

Enjoy the images:

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/2014/thanks

Pumpkin, pumpkin and more pumpkin

Pumpkin Square

In late October, BCI (Beaverton Culinary Institute) one again made a gathering, this time the theme is anything with Pumpkin. We came up with many recipes, we made two kind of soups, pumpkin casserole and many more, enjoy this occasion.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/bci/pumpkin

Let's make some sliders

Refreshing....

What a way to close for the summer this year. We at BCI (Beaverton Culinary Institute) made sliders on September 7^th, 2014. They are ranging from turkey, shrimp, CLAB (Clam and Crab) plus Banh Mi sliders. We do this at the house of Tony and Kelly. Absent from this gathering are April and Jill. Enjoy.

http://www.yongkieandpokie.com/bci/sliders

Labor Day 2014

Lincoln City, August 31st, 2014

I was still nursing my bloated stomach and dizziness, but the lure of cooler weather at the coast is stronger. So, we visited Cannon Beach, Tillamook and Lincoln City for our last summer vacation of summer 2014. We camped for three nights mostly relax and enjoy the cooler temperatures. It has been hot in Portland area and it did not settle well with my body this time. As of today we had 19 days of 90 degrees, but the 75 percent of above temperatures were the main culprit. I can’t wait for cooler weather and cool rain, I am tired of watering the front lawn.

www.yongkieandpokie.com/2014/labor