Wordless Wednesday National History Bee and Bowl 2015

Jaedan and his 7th grade Middle School Team strategizing before the tourny.

National History Bowl Oregon tournament, Saturday, February 7th 2015 at Rainier Jr Sr High School: 19 teams in three divisions from 8 different schools getting ready.

Jaedan and his 7th grade Middle School History Bowl Team who qualified for the Nationals in Kentucky in May!

From The Chief (a newspaper in Oregon) posted on Thursday, February 12, 2015 8:14 pm "National History Bee Bowl organized its first nationwide series of National History Bowl tournament for the middle school age level. In all, 19 teams from around the northwest competed at this event. Rainier High School’s seventh and eighth grade History Bowl Teams qualified for the nationals final competition, which is taking place in Kentucky on the weekend of May 22-24. Tyler Brackin and William Carver will represent the eighth grade. Regan Zelinski, Jaedan Abel, Robert DuPlessis, Jack Bauguess, Josiah Jones, with student coach, Rocky Hein, will represent seventh grade. The History Bowl advisor is Mr. Andrew Demko of Rainier High School. Efforts are now underway to raise money for these teams."

Other related articles: Rainier hosts Oregon History Bowl and Bee for fourth consecutive year

Müller Corner Yogurt Review and Costco Membership Giveaway

Quaker Müller Corner Yogurt 12 Pack from Costco

We received this product free from Quaker and Costco to facilitate this review.

Quaker Müller Corner Yogurt is a delicious yogurt cup with a separate corner that has different toppings to mix in with it. These are easily frozen so that you can take them with you and choose to eat it frozen or just put a few in the fridge to eat thawed, either way they are really yummy. They are great for healthy snacks for after school and when school is out in the summer for the kids.

Quaker Müller Corner Yogurt 12 Pack from Costco. Flavors: Choco Balls, Strawberry, and Caramelized Almonds.

At Costco in the refrigerated section you can pick up a case of 12 with flavors: Corner Strawberry and Corner Choco Balls, as well as a flavor exclusive to Costco, Corner Caramelized Almonds. These all have smooth and creamy lowfat yogurt with live and active cultures. The Corner Strawberry is my favorite out of all three. I love strawberries! This topping is more like a strawberry jam or preserves. The Corner Choco Balls is really good too. The choco balls have a similar texture to malted milk balls, but smaller. They are made of chocolate-flavored coated crispies. The Corner Caramelized Almonds has toasted caramelized almonds and almond pieces. These are really yummy if you love something crunchy mixed with your yogurt. This was the favorite of my son Jaedan.

Quaker Müller Corner Yogurt 12 Pack from Costco. 3 yummy flavors!

These are great frozen too! Summer is just around the corner and these area perfect snack for when the weather gets hot. They are so much healthier than ice cream.

Quaker Müller Corner Yogurt 12 Pack from Costco. What a great snack!

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Foodie Friday Mission Organics Tortilla Chips Review and Giveaway with Beet Chocolate Swirl Ice Cream - Keeping Portland Weird

I received three 13 oz. bags of Mission Organics Tortilla Chips to try, each in a different flavor variety: Blue Corn, White Corn, and Multi Grain. These are all USDA certified organic tortilla chips that start off as masa (maize (corn) dough made from freshly prepared hominy) made from organically grown corn. The tortillas are cooked in organic oil and topped with fresh sea salt for a traditional taste. I really liked the blue corn and multi grain the best myself. These chips curb my salty, crunchy snack craving and are great with my homemade salsa, guacamole, and sour cream. I however wanted to try them out with something unconventional this time.

So, in keeping Portland, Oregon weird I decided to pair the Blue Corn Mission Organics Tortilla Chips with one of my favorite recipes from a wonderful ice cream cookbook called Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams At Home. This cookbook has some really strange sounding, but divinely delicious recipes for ice creams, sundaes, sorbets and frozen yogurts. This particular Jeni's recipe is her Beet ice cream with mascarpone Italian cream cheese, orange zest, and poppy seeds. Although, we did a slightly different version with the poppy seeds substituted with 4 ounces of melted semi-sweet baking chocolate slowly drizzled in during the last 2 minutes of rotation.

The taste of the Beet ice cream has a subtle earthy beet flavor with piquant citrus hints and chocolate throughout. The color of the ice cream is a bright fuchsia, so paired with the Blue Corn Mission Organics Tortilla Chips it was quite the color combination. The salty chips brought out the sweet citrus taste of the ice cream even better and gave it an interesting crunch. All in all it was an interesting experience for my refined palate.

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Mission Organics Tortilla Chips are currently available in 13 oz. bags for a suggested retail price of $3.99 at select Safeway, Haggen, QFC and Fred Meyers stores throughout Portland and Seattle. Prices may vary by location. For more information, visit missionmenus.com.

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