Portland Peaches

The Year of Magical Thinking

February 3, 2022March 12, 2022 portlandpeaches

March 8, 2022, 6:30

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“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

December 4, 2021February 3, 2022 portlandpeaches

Jan 26 tentatively, 6:30pm

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

“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?”

Peach rating: 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑

Our Country Friends

November 6, 2021December 4, 2021 portlandpeaches

Tila’s

December 1

6:30pm

Pooka shells, the truck, groundhog…

“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.”

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

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

Food rating: 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑

The Lincoln Highway

November 6, 2021November 6, 2021 portlandpeaches

Alexis’s house

November 3, 2021

“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.”