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Saturday specials menu. 19 April 2008 2:07 pm

Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, news, pictures, vegan, vegetarian, work , 1 comment so far

It’s that time again (and now that I’m taking over the Friday closing shift, I should be able to really keep up with getting these posted sooner than Monday, when ingredients are already starting to run out):

Also, I’m happy to report that Gail is working on an official website for Morning Glory, and she liked my idea of posting the weekly specials menu, so if all goes according to plan (I know, it never does, but let me dream) I’ll be able to follow the café’s delicious developments even after leaving Eugene. Yay!

Happy weekend, everybody.

More good news! 11 April 2008 6:21 pm

Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, pictures, restaurants, work , 4 comments

Okay, it’s not quite as exciting as Wednesday’s revelation (and believe me, it was hard to make this post and move that excitement down the page), but there’s some pretty tasty stuff going on at Morning Glory this week:

I just hope there’s some mushrooms left by the time I get back into work on Tuesday. Also, I love the description on the sloppy joes. You’re either into them, or you aren’t, okay? Okay, Josh. I’m in, if they last.

Maybe I should start calling it Menu Monday… 7 April 2008 2:38 pm

Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, books, dessert, friends, pictures, work , 2 comments

…because here I go again:

Once again, I meant to post the new specials on Friday but I guess I was too busy writing a mushy Open Letter and writing sappy emails and the like. Also later in the day I won the used books lottery (more…)

The weekly specials menu and other pictures. 1 April 2008 1:38 am

Posted by Tracy in : Morning Glory, nepal, pictures, travel, work , 3 comments

Ack! It wasn’t April yet, but I was a fool last week, when I was responsible enough to pick up and scan and post a copy of the latest Morning Glory organic specials menu on Friday, but then forgot to say anything about it around here. Oop. Anyway, here it is:

As of closing time on Monday, we hadn’t run out of any ingredients, and the special pancake made a delicious shift meal, oh yes. In other TracyFood on Flickr news, I just finished posting my pictures of Mani Rimdu in Tengboche (the official site has gone to their 2008 information already). It’s been almost five months since I got back from the trip, and it feels like I’ve entered the picture-posting (and captioning) homestretch. Whee! Here’s some highlights (more…)

On dinner parties. 19 March 2008 7:21 pm

Posted by Tracy in : cooking, friends, identity, politics, responsibility, school, time versus money, work , 2 comments

Oh, lady. Stuff White People Like wins again with yesterday’s post on dinner parties, a subject I’ve written about on a few memorable occasions. The following little essaylet, first posted on Everything2.com on September 1, 2001, tells the story of one such occasion. (Writing it was another, and I suppose reposting it here is yet one more, in a very meta way.)

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For years and years, my parents have belonged to a club that treated its members to gourmet dinner parties, sometimes in restaurants, but also for some time hosted at members’ homes and prepared in a prescribed potluck style by the guests, who were given recipes for dishes selected to fit the evening’s theme. In addition to these smaller seasonal events (four times a year; you figure it out) the club — ominously named The Establishment — used to meet in its entirety twice a year for an annual formal, black tie dinner in January and a much more informal outdoor picnic/barbecue in July. The venues for these latter two events were fixed for years, at the homes of the club members with the most extensive silverware, glassware, and flatware collection, and the largest back yard, respectively. But I digress.

As a result of my parents’ participation in those black-tie dinners, I learned quite a bit about the workings of the dinner party, first-hand, by working as part of its catering staff (with the help of a rotating roster of friends recruited to help) for five years in a row (the pay got better every time, especially when I returned to “the annual dinner” as a starving college student). However, I believe that it was as a result of this experience that I failed to earn a potentially valuable scholastic distinction during my senior year of high school. (more…)