What's Cooking at the Tingeys

So after some requests about the things we're cooking, I've decided to start pre-posting our planned menus for the coming week. I usually plan a more involved meal for Sundays and 3 simple meals throughout the week. We usually get some great leftovers for lunches or the following night. We usually pair the main dish with a simple salad or vegetable side dish. With our busy schedules it's worked great and we've really enjoyed the food. So here's what's planned for next week with the links to the recipes.

Sunday:

Chilaquiles Style Roasted Chicken Legs
Avocado, Cilantro and White Onion Salad
Impossible Coconut Pie

Meal 1: Chicken Posole

Meal 2: Funky Buddha Chicken

Meal 3: Pork Loin Spiedino with Pine Nut, Garlic and Current Soffritto

Looking forward to some good eating this week. :)

Houzz Home Design Website

You have to check out this website for home design and decorating. I love it! I've already added tons of pictures in my ideabook.

The September Issue

I can't wait to see this documentary about Anna Wintour, the Editor-In-Chief of Vogue, and the events surrounding the 2007 fall fashion issue.

Downtown Chic

I love this design book, Downtown Chic, by Robert and Cortney Novogratz. I recently got it from the library and I had to wait forever to get it. I loved looking at all the pictures and seeing the before and afters. The pictures and their style are both amazing and very inspiring. I also love that most of their renovations are in NYC, a city I absolutely adore. I think I'll definitely be purchasing this book in the near future. Robert and Cortney Novogratz's company is called Sixx Design and I recently found out that Bravo is shooting a new television series called Design Sixx featuring Robert and Cortney. It will be airing in January 2010, I can't wait.

Multnomah Falls

A few weekends ago Jeff's brother Brad, his wife Vanessa and their two cute kids were in Portland and we got to spend the day with them. We went to Multnomah Falls in the morning and then we met Jeff's parents for lunch. We had so much fun spending time with them. It was a wonderful day! Here are some pictures of us at Multnomah Falls.

Mulnomah Falls

Vanessa, Brad and Samantha. Henry was asleep in the stroller and I'm sad I didn't get a picture of him.

Me and Jeff

Samantha and Vanessa

Me and Vanessa

Beast

August 7th was Jeff's birthday, so to celebrate he wanted to go to a restaurant called Beast. The chef, Naomi Pomeroy, is from Jeff's hometown Corvallis, and she is one of the best new chefs in the country. She is also featured in this month's Food and Wine magazine.

The food was absolutely amazing. It was a six course meal and there were two different seatings, one at 6:00pm and the other at 8:45pm. The menu is a set menu that changes weekly and there are no substitutions. We made reservations for the 6:00pm seating. We started out with cream of summer corn soup with herb salsa verde and fried shallots. The soup was outstanding and the salsa verde gave a touch of brightness to the soulful soup. The second course was a sampler plate of house made pate's, steak tartare and foie-gras. The third course was a duck confit with a bean cassoulet with pork sausage and lamb shoulder with braised greens and cherry tomatoes. The duck was the star of the dish, but the cassoulet was exceptionally simple and tasty. The fourth course was a baby lettuce salad with apricot and brown butter vinaigrette with sheep's cheese and croutons. The dressing had a nice sweetness as a counterpoint to the earthy flavor of the sheep's cheese. The fifth course was a cheese plate with figs and candied hazelnuts. Finally, the dessert was a peach and amaretto mousse with blackberry sauce and pistachio praline whipped cream.

Not only was the food amazing, but the ambiance was equally impressive. While we were there, they were filming a pilot TV show for Food Network. It was fun to see all that went on to film the pilot, I don't think we were on TV, but we can't wait to watch it when it airs.

Beast has community seating and we met some very nice people at our table. We shared our table with the manager of Broder and his parents. They shared some great ideas for future food adventures here in Portland. That being said, we're looking forward to coming back to Beast many more times and making more great memories.

Here are some pictures from our fun night.

Jeff waiting for the door to open

Mad Men

I absolutely love this show and it starts up again tonight on AMC. I can't wait. The styles of the 60's and the retro sets on the show are so cool.