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Chocolate oatmeal currant pecan at Bakery Bar

Posted by on Mar 20, 2012 in Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip | 0 comments

Bakery Bar
2935 NE Glisan St – Portland
$1.50

Ever since Bakery Bar inexplicably stopped making their soft, excellent ginger cookies a few years ago, I haven’t been able to get excited about a cookie at this joint. (The bakery’s  strength, imo, is savory and sweet scones  -maple bacon and apple, cinnamon pecan, sharp cheddar and scallion, etc –  and their breakfast menu. And cakes, which I’ve never actually tasted but are exceptionally cute and beautiful.)

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Oatmeal currant & cranberry at Common Grounds Coffee House

Posted by on Feb 12, 2011 in Oatmeal, Whole grain | 0 comments

Common Grounds Coffee House
4321 Se Hawthorne Blvd – Portland
$1

Note: I owe this find entirely to one of my favorite cookie eaters and tipsters. (I was getting ready to write that the above link has nothing to do with cookies, but I then realized: what in the world could have more to do with cookies than…Santa Claus?   It’s all a big circle game,  my friends.)

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