{"id":10810,"date":"2010-12-24T12:50:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T20:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2010-12-24T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T20:50:04","slug":"vacation-day-lunch-5th-quadrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=10810","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Day Lunch – 5th Quadrant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday I slept in late and enjoyed being lazy. Having an
\nextra vacation day off this week was sooo needed. I ate some
\noatmeal and then went for a swim. I had the pool almost to myself
\nthe whole time and had a great swim. I didn’t set out to accomplish
\nanything specific but I normally don’t wear my Heart Rate Monitor
\nin the pool and since I did I tended to be more preoccupied with
\nthe data it told me than relaxing. <\/a>Michael and I
\ndecided to go out to lunch since we had the whole rest of the day
\nfree of plans. I suggested we go to Tasty N Son’s
\n<\/a>over in North Portland. It’s owned by the same people
\nthat run Toro Bravo–two restaurants I’ve been dying to try. The
\nurgency to try Tasty N Son’s grew after I met Carbzilla<\/a> back in
\nOctober<\/a> and she told me how amazing the food was. Imagine
\nmy surprise when it was about noon on a Thursday and the place was
\nPACKED. Not even an empty seat at the bar. There was a 45 minute
\nwait at least. We decided to walk up the street and see what else
\nwas available. <\/a>Up the block was the
\n5th
\nQuadrant<\/a>–a pub owned by the Lompoc Brewery. We’re fans
\nof the Oaks Bottom Pub in Sellwood (also part of the brewery) so we
\ndecided to eat lunch there. It was a typical Portland brew pub in
\ndecor and menu. <\/a>We were seated
\nimmediately even though it was half full. I also noticed there was
\nan outdoor patio that will be nice in the summer time. Michael and
\nI talked about riding our bikes to the pub during the summer time.
\n<\/a>Since it was a
\nvacation day and after 12:30 we started with beer. \ud83d\ude09 <\/a> <\/a>We both started with
\nthe Fool’s Golden Ale and neither of us liked it. To me it tasted
\nlike PBR (yuck) and to Michael it tasted like soap. Yuck. We
\nsampled two others and settled on the Condor Pale Ale. Much better.
\n<\/a> <\/a>For lunch I ordered
\nthe BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich: Lean pork shoulder slowly braised in
\nSockeye Stout, shredded then served on a toasted pub bun and topped
\nwith BBQ sauce and homemade coleslaw. <\/a>Michael had the
\nItalian Grinder, which was my second choice. It was grilled
\ncapicola ham and salami with saut\u00e9ed peppers & onions,
\nmozzarella, tomatoes and basil vinaigrette on a hoagie roll. I had
\na bite of his sandwich and it was tasty. The cheese and ham combo
\nwas stellar–no greasy and the ham wasn’t stringy or tough to chew
\nlike it sometimes can get. <\/a>Doesn’t that just
\nlook<\/em> amazing? NOM! Next time we go there I’m
\ndefinitely getting the Italian Grinder. My sandwich was flavorful
\nwithout being overly messy and sweet. Sometimes with pulled pork it
\ncan have too much sauce (which is just a bunch of sugar, let’s be
\nhonest). <\/a>In fact, I bet I
\ncould make my own pulled pork in the crockpot. Anyone have a good
\nrecipe they can share? <\/a>Michael and I
\nenjoyed a leisurely lunch at 5th Quadrant and chatted about various
\nthings…Christmas, friends, friends with babies, dogs, food,
\nsummer biking plans…you name it. <\/a>We wrapped up our
\nconversation and headed back to our neck of the woods (basically
\nthe entire opposite end of Portland from where we had lunch).
\nMichael had a chiropractic appointment to get to. <\/a>Poor guy has been in
\npain for 2 weeks now. He’s done the physical therapy stretches he
\ngot from the doc, got a massage and now had 2 chiro appointments to
\nno avail. \ud83d\ude41 <\/a>Apparently he has a
\n“damaged ligament” in his back??? He told me that I said “huh?”
\nThat’s such a vague term it doesn’t even sound real.
\nI <\/strong>had a “damaged ligament” in my right
\nankle–it was called a torn ligament. And I had to have surgery to
\nrepair it. It was an awful experience. So I’m wondering how he can
\nhave a damaged ligament in his back, what that MEANS, and how the
\nhell do you fix it? While Michael was at the chiropractor I watched
\n“Four Christmases” with Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn. I
\nreally liked the movie and it got me into the Christmas spirit!
\nLooking forward to the rest of the weekend.
\nQUESTION: Can anyone help Michael with his
\nailment?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday I slept in late and enjoyed being lazy. Having an extra vacation day off this week was sooo needed. I ate some oatmeal and then went for a swim. I had the pool almost to myself the whole time and had a great swim. I didn’t set out to accomplish anything specific but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49,55,104,159,195,196,267,1],"tags":[2163,2162,8585,8596,8599,8824,2167,2161,8618,8667,2164,8690,8691,8735,2165,2166,8746],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_4680.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10810"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10863,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10810\/revisions\/10863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}