Author: portlandpeaches

Marrying the Ketsups

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Nan’s

Monday June 13, 6 :30

“ After a flight of fruit-inspired beer—watermelon, 🍑 , and raspberry—Gretchen leaned her head back on the booth. “Can I ask you something?” she said.”

It’s a BINGO!
Had to marry them today.
Time to protest.
Sadly the Beavers lost.

Peach rating: 🍑🍑🍑

Still Life

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Jen’s house

Wednesday May 11, 6:30 pm

“The Iris Garden, up by the Piazzale Michelangelo, had not long opened for the season, and Cress and Paola were first through the gates that day. A rare cream and 🍑 variety had caught Paola’s eye and she’d knelt down to view it better. .

For Evelyn’s birthday party
Art history by Heidi
Prayer candle alter
Lots of Chianti
Claude
Suzanne brought bicicletas

The Year of Magical Thinking

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Mina’s

March 8, 2022, 6:30

And the music play list was great
If only he had taken his Lipitor
Congee

Serious eats.com

Peach sorbet

“There were watercress sandwiches, champagne, lemonade, 🍑-colored napkins to match the sorbet that came with the cake, peacocks on the lawn.”

“Quintana had come by to get my mother’s ruby crystal glasses. ”

“I found him outside in the dark, tearing unripe 🍑 es from a tree and hurling them at the peacocks, a characteristically straightforward if counterproductive approach to resolving an annoyance. ”

You know there is a cult following when stickers are involved

Peach rating: 🍑🍑🍑 for the discussion

Cloud Cuckoo Land

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Heidi’s

Jan 26 tentatively, 6:30pm

Honey cakes

I made sultans chicken, honey squash, honey goat cheese triangles, and Alexis made a delicious honey cake too

Owls everywhere
Pinterest 🍑

“So after this whole journey,” she says, “Aethon answers the riddle, gets through the gates, drinks from the rivers of wine and cream, eats apples and 🍑es, even honeycakes, whatever those are, and the weather is always great, and no one is mean to him, and he’s still unhappy?”

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Peach rating: 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑

Our Country Friends

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Tila’s

December 1

6:30pm

Pooka shells, the truck, groundhog…

And Teevas

“She held a small receptacle in her hand brimming with a 🍑-colored substance. “You have to put this under your eyes,” she said. “We’ve all been having sleepless nights, but you, honey, need to show off those beautiful peepers.”

K pop crash course by Olivia
A bad dancer is bothered by his balls
The Sant Petersburg room
artisanal gin from a soon to be well known distillery
Yule log…. Because it’s holiday season and because there was a loud “crack”, branches everywhere
❤️
So much to say about this collection. Lumpia, K pop, knitted gifts, the buns that Mia brought here by bike (after work, uphill and in the dark, no bike lanes to boot), pea and orange salad, a groundhog, Korean alphabet flash cards, peasant bread
Borscht K-pop
Funky K-pop

Peaches rating🍑🍑🍑.5 because the discussion was great

Food rating: 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑

The Lincoln Highway

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Alexis’s house

November 3, 2021

With pasta Mi Amore

“In retrospect, it probably would have been 🍑 es and cream if Woolly had thought to set the thesaurus on fire on the fifty-yard line. But for some reason Woolly couldn’t quite remember, he had put the book in the end zone, and when he’d thrown the match, the flames had quickly followed a trail of gas that had been sloshed on the grass, engulfed the gas can, and triggered an explosion that set the goalpost on fire.”

“There was also a jar of homemade applesauce and another of 🍑 es in syrup.”

It was a dark and stormy night.
“The silk wrap that Charity had been wearing was now draped across the back of an arm chair, and she was in a 🍑 colored negligee with ivory trim.”
Times Square
Hudson River
FOA Swartz, but not a dollhouse
Maybe the summer home, the library

Rating:🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑 right up there with Gentleman in Moscow