Last weekend we were talking with a Hawaiian friend from Honolulu who revealed to use this shocking fact: He had never visited the shrimp trucks on the road to Oahu’s north shore. “How could this BE?!” we cried, while remembering the sound advice of “Peel, Suck, and Eat” as provided by that big yellow truck, …
It was gray and a bit blowy, but plenty of people filled the streets in Issaquah for the annual Salmon Days festival. Our uke club was invited to play for the second year in a row, six enthusiastic players (you see five on the stage, one of our guys had to run off) played a …
There’s a bit of a bite in the air after about 6pm. The sun is lower in the sky and, heaven help us, the heat goes on for a bit in the mornings. The overnight temperatures are low – they dropped into the 40s and last week I spent a few days wearing a hat, …
In these mild summer evenings, we love to eat dinner outside while hummingbirds do the same at the backyard feeder. We are obsessively trying to photograph the pair of Rufus birds that we think have set up house in a very spiky tree that hangs over the low fence between our yard and the neighbors’. …
The nice thing about having a gas grill is you can walk outside, grill yourself up a little something, then wander back inside and, you know, eat it with very little fuss. There’s no planning, no charcoal chimney, no fretting about if the kindling is too wet or the wind will take out the flame. …
Fess up. Which one of you told me to grill mangoes? You are an evil genius. Now, I’m not sure I’m going to want to eat anything else. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, grilled mangoes. Good lord. Whew. You can scoop the mango out of the skin with a spoon after you’ve grilled it, and the places …