What the What?! She's back?

Guys, guys, guys.  Guess what? I am back! And I am overdue. I have like 4.5 Bread Puddings to catch up on. (The .5 is a a future BP that you all can look forward to in another month or so.)  I mean, the pressure to blog about my bread pudding experiences was so intense, it was infiltrating my everyday life.  I was on vacation and a coworker sent me an email with a pic and was like "Yo yo. Check it. BP sista."

And then to another coworker, I was like, "Werd. I am coming to Alaska," And he's all like, "I'm gonna make you Bread Pudding, foo."

So clearly, moral of this story is that I have fans all over the place and they all want to hear what I have to say about the best dessert ever.

Okay, so here we go:

Ben and I went to Ox, a delicious Argentinian Steak House in Portland on Feb 12 for a pre-Valentine's Day dinner.  So here's the break down:

- Cocktails - excellent
- Brussel sprouts - excellent
- Fried potatoes - excellent
- steak - excellent
- bread pudding - Not great, Bob.

What a disappointment.  Ox kicks ass.  However, the bread pudding was not so amazing.  It was a lemon flavored bread pudding served with pistachio gelato.  The gelato was great, but I didn't particularly like the flavor mix of pistachio and lemon, and frankly, the lemon BP just wasn't so great. It was dry and tasted like too-thick lemon meringue.  Here's a pic:

And here's a weird pic of Ben with a super long face and squinty eyes:

 And here is a pic of me giving an enthusiastic thumbs up to the Ox parking lot sign.

I will say that the service at Ox was awesome. They forgot one of my drink orders, so when I reminded them, they gave it to me for free.  The manager also bought us dessert on the house, because he is a Timbers fan.  RCTID!

Now, here is an homage, to all the neglected Bread Puddings I have eaten or yearned for from afar, but failed to blog about during the last 6 months:

This one was from Charlie's Bistro! What's good, JP?!

 This one is from somewhere I don't remember.  I ate it with Kelly Kincella. She's pretty kewl.

And this one was sent to me from Stone Henge (my fave!) from Derek Ranta, who you might remember from Suck-a-butt fame!

Stay tuned next month for a new entry featuring a homemade BP by an authentic Alaskan!  THE Matt O'Connell has committed to making his special chocolate bourbon bread pudding for me next month!  Equally as exciting as the fact that I will be eating a new BP is that I will probably be doing it while watching Saved by the Bell reruns.  Shout out to MPG!  #ZackAttack

Peace out until next month homeslices!