Burnside Bramble

The Burnside Bramble

Amy Stewart

1.5 oz. House Spirits Aviation gin

.5 oz. Clear Creek Distillery loganberry liqueur

.5 oz. fresh-squeezed lemon juice

.5 oz. simple syrup

1-2 oz. IPA (your choice — I'm not going to tell a Portlander what beer to drink)

Shake the first four ingredients over ice and strain into a short tumbler filled with ice. Top with IPA to taste, and give it a good stir.

This cocktail, like Powell's, is seriously committed to Portland and offers something for everyone. I happen to think it's a lovely drink, light and fizzy, the perfect balance of tart, sweet, and bitter. But when I make it for friends, everybody wants to tinker with the ingredients, adding a little more fruit liqueur, dialing back the lemon juice, or adjusting the ratio of gin to beer.

28 April 2013

Breakfast:  gritts and two boiled eggs and coffeeand iced water

 

Lunch: baked chicken, dressing, broccoli florets and iced water

 

Dinner: a Healthy Choice Classic Meatloaf Meal with iced water to drink!

 

Desert: a couple of chunks of dark chocolate

  

 

 

 

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27 April 2013

 

Breakfast:  We went to IHOP and I had:

* t-bone steak

* 3 eggs over medium

* 3 pancakes (including a midget on the bottom)

* coffeeand iced water

 

Lunch: We went to Papa John's and my ½ had double hamburger and I had a bottle of Diet Pepsi with this...

 

Dinner: baked boneless, skinned chicken, a baked potatoe and a lot of boiled broccoli florets with iced water to drink!

 

Desert: a couple of chunks of dark chocolate

  

 

 

 

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26 April 2013

 

Breakfast: two English muffins with grape jelly and peanut butter and coffee

 

Lunch: several different "Mexican dishs" at a local place and a pastry with honey for desert and a couple of glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

 

Lunch:  Marie Callender's "Country Fried Pork Chop & Gravy" and iced water with a couple of chunks of dark chocolate after eatting. It was after eatting this that I started to feel really shacky...

 

 

 

 

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25 April 2013

Breakfast: egg salad sandwich with coffee

Lunch: We went to Long Dong John  Silvers and I had 2 pieces of chicken, 3 pieces of fish, fries, onion rings and a glass of "Diet Pepsi". After I got home, I drank some coffee and then felt ill. I suspect the coffee mixed with the grease and made me feel ill...

Snack: a small piece of dark chocolate

Dinner:  boiled broccoli florets, boiled barley with stewed beef and gravy and iced water...

Snack: some little Oreos due to the PM score of 97!

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AM  89  PM 97

Several hours after going to bed, I awoke and went to the bathroom and spent some time vomiting and coughing up yellow crap. The next day, Kathie told me she had felt ill, So we figured it had to be greasy food from Long John Silver that upset us. Long John Silver is now on our “don’t visit” list…

24 April 2013

Breakfast: creamme of wheat, two slices of sour dough toast and coffee

 

Lunch: speghetti, salad, ice creamme and a glass of "Diet Pepsi:"

 

Snack: a couple of little Oreos and some dark chocolate

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice meat loaf dinner and iced water

23 April 2013

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

 

Lunch: leftover pilaf, a piece of left over chicken and a can of Pepsi Zero.

 

Dinner: we went to Montana Mike and I had:

• salad with French Dressing
• 8 oz filet
• baked potatoe with butter, sour creamme and cheddar cheese
• two rolls
• two bottles of Sam Adams Lager

 

 

 

22 April 2013

Breakfast: McDonald's for big breakfast (scrambled eggs, sausage,
biscuit with grape jelly, and coffee)

Lunch: Three tacos at Taco Bell and chips and a large "Diet Pepsi"

Snack: dark chocolate

Dinner: 3 hot dogs, reman, single slice of sour dough bread with peanut
butter and grape jelly and cold water

21 April 2013

Breakfast: at Inn Pancake House I had SOS on hash browns, a pancake,
coffee, roll with grape jelly and cold water

Lunch: roast beef sandwich

Dinner: baked chicken, rice pilaf, asparagus and cold waster

After dinner, a couple of chunks of dark chocolate

18 April 2013

Breakfast:  three egg omlette with burned sauteed onion flakes, two slices of sour dough toast with grape jelly and coffee (too much coffee)

 

Lunch: a Healthy Choice BBQ chicken, mashed potatoe and gravy, corn and apple desert, a bottle of water and a couple of chunks of dark chocolate.

 

Snack at home: a piece of dark chocolate and more coffee

 

Post diinner snack, a few little Oreos...

 

AM   76  PM  131

 

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17 April 2013

Breakfast: cherios and coffee

 

Lunch: enclata, red rice, salad, tomatoe soup, cake and ice creamme and two glasses of "Diet Pepsi"

 

Snack: some dark chocolate

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Chicken & Rice Cheddar Bake (brown & wile rice in cheddar cheese auce with chicken breast and broccoli), iced water and some soup crackers

 

Desert: some little Oreos...

 

 

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16 April 2013

Breakfast: grits with butter, two English muffins and coffee

 

Lunch: at King's Buffet for various chicken and beef dishes with rice and desert and "Diet Pepsi".  There is a strange irony in that once expects little service from a buffet yet one gets some of the best service in town from these waitress, certainly better than from the Casino...

 

Dinner: Marie Callender's Country Fired Chicken & Gravy and iced water

 

Desert: several little Oreo cookies

 

 

 AM: 101   PM: 166

 

 

 

 "micturition ergo sum"

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14 April 2013

Breakfast: milk toast and coffee

 

Lunch:  hamburger, tomatoe soup and cold water

 

Dinner:

13 April 2013

Breakfast: at the still new IHOP where I had a meat omlette, hash brown potatoes and coffee.

 

Lunch: at home, where we had Rubens and a can of Diet Coke

 

Dinner: we went to the Race Track where I had an over priced and poor hamburger, chips and a bottle of Diet Pepsi.

 

Snack: as this was an poor excuse for a meal, I had a peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwich when I got home...

12 April 2013

Breakfast:

 

Lunch:

 

Dinner:  We went to the "Boot Hill Boots and Beer Bash" at the new Convention Center. There, the Executive Chef presented some very nice meals, which were matched with different drinks. I also had two chocolate cupcakes that had been made that day in the Boot Hill Museum kitcher. It was all very nice and well worth the money

11 April 2013

Breakfast: three egg omelet made with the plastic omelet maker, two slices of sour dough bread cooked in the toaster oven and coffee

 

Lunch: at the DCCC for goulash, rice, cake and ice creamme and "Diet Coke"

 

Dinner: a Healthy Choice beef dish and a chunk of "French Bread" with cinnamon and Splenda and water

 

Sadly, I reacted badly to something and was coughing the rest of the evening.

9 April 2013

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

 

Lunch: stewed left over steak mixed with boiled noodles and a can of Pepsi Zero.

 

Snack: small piece of dark chocolate and a couple of Girl Scout cookies

 

Dinner: I had:

• a piece of beat up steak
• two ears corn on the cob
• small amount of boiled broccoli
• cold water

Post blood testing, a bottle of MDG

 

AM:  76   PM:  106

 

I guess I can have "normal" blood sugar in the evening...

 

 

5 April 2013

_____Breakfast: We went to IHOP and I had:

• 2 pancakes
• two eggs over medium
• sirloin tips
• hash browns
• coffee and
• iced water

This was quite and I like the seasoning in the sirloin tips.

________Lunch:  I made a beer and beef stew (beef and Guinness Stew)_and I had this over boiled rice with a can of zero caffeine Diet Coke.
           
             Dinner: We went to Applebys and I had:

• "twisty" potatoe chips vice the normal baked potatoe slices I expected.
• fish and chips
• iced water (I was the designed driver and Kathie the designated drinker)

 
Pre-Bed Snack:

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4 April 2013

Breakfast: milk toast and coffee

Lunch: we went to the new Oriental Place and I had a chicken, rice,
broccoli mix, with a roll and a glass of "Diet Pepsi"

Dinner: I made tuna noodle casserole, then had no fat orange sherbert
with fudge topping.

AM 84 PM 161

2 April 2013

Breakfast:  3 little eggs cooked in the "omelet maker" (in the microwave), with a couple of slices of corned beef added and a can of Pepsi Zero.

 

Snack: a small amount of Tillamook Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese

 

Lunch:  We had an office luncheon and I had:

• a nice chicken dish
• small amount of noodle salad
• several slices of buttered garlic bread
• two different type of chocolate cake with vanilla ice creamme
• some "Diet Coke"

 

Snack:a small piece of dark chocolate

 

Dinner:   I made homemade spethetti sauce and clearly didn't do a very good job of straining out the greece in the strainer. I put the hamburger in the strainer and ran water over it. I should have stirred up the hamburger to do an adequate job of removing the greece. I didn't and kept waking up all night with GURP. The sauce was over noodles and we have garlic bread and I drank a bottle of LandShark.

 

I forgot to bring my pills with me to work and took them about 2 pm. I took the evening pills with dinner and two hours after starting dinner, I had a score of 174. I'm amazed with this figure and I don't know if it should have been lower due to taking my morning pills at 2 pm instead of aroung 6:40 am. Maybe my "normal" evening scores are around this figure anyway?

 

 AM:  70   PM: 174

 

 

 

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April Fool's Day 2013

Breakfast: cherios and wheaties mixed and coffee

 

Lunch: a 3 egg "omlette", microwaved in a little plastic thingee and coffee and a sort of hard boiled egg

 

Lunch #2, still very hungry, I had a corned beef sandwich at home

 

Dinner: Healthy Choice Meatloaf Dinner and cold water

 

 

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