Put four favorite breakfast ingredients – ham, eggs, cheese and bread – into one dish and you have the perfect morning wake-up call for a house full of guests.
Depending on what part of the country you’re from, you might think of this as savory bread pudding, breakfast strata, or breakfast casserole.
No matter what you call it, this hearty make-ahead breakfast has everything going for it!
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Job Title *
Bike tour guide/ shop staff
Company/Organization *
Cycle Portland
Job Description *
We’re looking for individuals that love biking, exploring, and sharing our wonderful city with visitors from across the world. Cycle Portland is Portland’s oldest bike tour & rental company providing sightseeing tours, rentals, and repair at our full service shop in historic Old Town/China Town. Most tours last around 2-3 hours and the pace is about 10mph. Here you’ll flow between providing engaging and insightful tours and helping renters and locals with in shop bike services.
The Tour Guide/Shop Hand we’re looking for has:
Excellent public speaking skills with a genuine desire to work with the public and comfortability with large groups
Strong verbal and written communication abilities
A strong sense of craftsmanship
The itch to grow and learn about Portland, its past, present, and its future
A drive for a mix between fast paced summers, and mellow project oriented winters.
Eagerness to work with a bike shop that values a fun, supportive, and inclusive work environment.
Requirements:
Candidate must be available to work at least 20 hours/wk starting.
Must be able to work weekends
Previous guide and shop experience is useful, but is not required.
Must be able to lift and maneuver heavy objects up to 55 pounds.
Compensation:
Position is part-time and seasonal with the potential of full time permanent work for qualified applicants. Pay starts at 12/hr with the potential to move up after a 30 day review.
How to Apply *
Interested candidates should send an email to portlandbicycle@gmail.com with a paragraph or two stating your interest in this position, and why you would like to work with us.
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We hadn’t done too much to Ida’s bedroom since we moved to our new home last year because we didn’t want to have her space be under construction, especially while other rooms is the house were. We didn’t paint, we haven’t ripped out the out the mousy brown carpet in here, and most of her furniture is stuff that we brought from our previous home. Last week though, we made some changes.
When we first moved in, Ida had been sleeping mostly on the top bunk and we didn’t want her sleeping right at the window. But for the last year or so she’s been sleeping on the bottom and so we finally moved the bed under the window which gave us so much more floor space. It made a huge, huge difference.
We still have plans for this room, we’re thinking paint, maybe wallpaper, the carpet has got to go and we’re still deciding what kind of flooring to put in here…but in the meantime, we’re enjoying the pattern play in here very much!
Here’s a little get-the-look. One of the biggest game changers was putting wallpaper on the little white strip of the Ikea bed. It made the whole thing look automatically way more customized and cute. Also, the purple curtain (which is just a tie-dyed drop cloth) is fun because it acts as both a curtain for the window and for the bottom bunk bed to keep the bright sun out in the morning–and it makes kind of a fort for her which she loves.
Sources:
Unicorn Head
Nana Pink Wallpaper
Jungalicious Baby Blanket from Madly Wish
Vintage Pink Kantha quilt
Otomi Pillow
Floor mat
Bunk Bed
Orange graphic ottoman
Floral pillow
Aqua Heart Pillow
Pink hearts pillow
Cute little straw doll on the top bunk is from The Brass Crane
Purple Tie-dye curtain (We dyed a drop cloth) Purchase curtain pictured in collage here.
This rich and velvety vegan chocolate pudding is sure to satisfy even the most serious chocolate craving.
It may look and taste fancy, but this dairy-free dessert contains just two simple ingredients and takes less that 20 minutes to prepare.
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If you are dairy-free, you might have thought whipped cream was a thing of the past. Surprise!
It turns out that you can whip the heck out of a can of coconut cream and make yourself an extraordinary topping for pie, hot chocolate, or any dessert.
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Every winter, I’m surprised by how many people have never had a hot buttered rum.
This is a classic American cocktail that dates back to colonial times, and it’s as much a part of Christmas as eggnog or peppermint hot chocolate. More people need to know how good this cocktail can be!
To help spread the word, hot buttered rums have become my standard contribution to holiday parties and potlucks. I just make an extra large batch of spiced butter ahead of time, grab a bottle of dark rum, and off I go.
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The City of Portland is on the verge of releasing $300,000 from the city’s general fund for “emergency Vision Zero improvements” on outer Southeast Division Street.
The move comes after a spate of deaths and injuries on Division east of 82nd Avenue — including two fatal collisions within hours of each other nine days ago.
Division is home to seven of the city’s top 30 high crash intersections. This year alone five people have died and three people have sustained serious injuries while using the street. Seven of those collisions happened on outer Division between 124th and 156th.
Pressure has been building on PBOT for the past week to do something.
Last week nine bereaved family members (including two women who lost their sons at the same intersections on Division where people were killed on December 7th) signed a letter demanding immediate action.
And this past Saturday, dozens of volunteer activists used hay bales and their own bodies to slow down traffic on the notoriously dangerous thoroughfare. “PBOT won’t fix it, so we will,” proclaimed event organizers from Bike Loud PDX.
The $300,000 investment was confirmed today via a City Council agenda item that will be heard at their meeting on December 21st. We have also confirmed the action with a staffer in Transportation Commissioner Steve Novick’s office.
The ordinance is being presented by Novick, Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Nick Fish — which means it already has the three votes it needs to pass.
The money will come from contingency funding in the City’s general fund. These are funds held aside by the city in case projects cost more than expected. Specifically the agenda item calls for “emergency Vision Zero improvements and community engagement efforts on Outer Division.” We don’t have all the details about what the $300,000 will do, but we’ll update this post when we know more.
Asked about the ordinance today, Novick’s office said the idea for emergency funding came from PBOT Director Leah Treat and it was Mayor Hales’ idea to use contingency funding.
Interestingly this is a very similar approach to dealing with a traffic safety crisis that former Mayor Sam Adams took in October 2007. After two people died while biking in the central city less than two weeks apart, Adams called an emergency meeting and held a press conference at city hall. At that meeting PBOT staff unveiled plans for installing the city’s first bike boxes at 14 high-risk locations. About five weeks later Adams got $200,000 in emergency funding (through the same contingency fund method being used by Hales and Novick).
In a story published yesterday in the Portland Mercury PBOT dismissed the major lane reconfiguration (a.k.a. “road diet) that Bike Loud PDX is calling for. Instead, PBOT called for much less controversial measures like medians, refuge islands and crosswalk beacons. (They were already planning to install speed radar cameras at 156th.)
There are a lot of things PBOT can do to tame outer Division. The question is, what measures will they take? And will it be enough to mitigate the clear and present danger posed by this deadly street?
The ordinance will be at City Council on Wednesday (12/21) at 10:15 am.
— Jonathan Maus, (503) 706-8804 – jonathan@bikeportland.org
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