Local Flavor: Bob's Red Mill Breakfast

Last night Dan asked me if I wanted to go out for breakfast. I thought that sounded like a nice treat, so I suggested we try Bob's Red Mill.
Many of you might recognise the Bob's Red Mill products from the grocery store. You can find them in the baking isle (also near the soup and rice), but there are much better selections at health food stores. If you want the best selection, you can go directly to Bob's Red Mill in Milwaukie where they sell everything. You can even get a price break by purchasing the items by the box (usually 3-4 bags of same product per box).

I had visited the Bob's Red Mill store once before Hayden was born and Bob himself was there checking up on operations. Back then I thought it would be fun to go back and eat at the restaurant..and three years later, we finally did.



The kids all had silver dollar pancakes and scrambled eggs, Dan ordered sunny side up eggs with hash browns and a side of fried grits and I ordered a big bowl of fruit and a blueberry date nut bran muffin. It was all so good and unlike most breakfast meals, it was made with whole grains and unprocessed, made-from-scratch food.


Here is an example of the grind stone that they use in the mill to grind the wheat into flour. Besides your typical wheat flour, you can also buy these types.

The kids enjoyed watching the water wheel in the front of the mill. Back in the day water wheels were used to turn the grind stones inside the mill. Now all of the grinding takes palce in a different building across the street, but the wheel remains as a cool reminder of days gone by.

We didn't leave empty handed. We found cinnamon rolls, blueberry date nut bran muffins, biscuits, freshly ground almond butter, potato bread mix, corn grits, buckwheat pancake mix and date nut bran muffin mix.