I've never made fried chicken, and although I own a waffle iron, I've only used it once in the last 5 years. But then last week in North Carolina we had some delicious Chicken & Waffles at Beasley's Chicken & Honey, so when I came across a "Grain-Free Waffles" recipe…
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I've been wanting a butter bell for the boat, and found this cool one made by Red Wing Stoneware in Minnesota: Red Wing Stoneware Co. butter bell ($35) from Duluth Pack. Butter goes in the part on the right, water goes in the part on the left, and when put together the water…
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Those are called "American Redbud" and they're all over Raleigh and Cary, in multiple shades of pink. I took these on our walk yesterday to the Fortnight Brewing Company along the Cary Greenway: We've had such a great time visiting Tiffani and Deke. It's been a pretty chill visit, with…
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We're visiting our friends Tiffani and Deke in North Carolina this week, and besides visiting and catching up and helping them watching them move into their new place, we've been checking out some of the local spots for food and drink. We went to a great spot for Mexican food…
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Okay , so remember last week when we were out at Sidney Spit in the Gulf Islands, and we went to the brick beach and brought back a few oysters? We fried 'em up that night and ate a few with the fresh crab we caught for dinner and everything…
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We were all set to go back to Portland yesterday (Saturday), but during dinner out with our friend Steve on Friday night in Anacortes, he convinced us to stay another night and join him and Sam out at Orcas on Saturday. We caved. We left Anacortes around 11:30am yesterday and…
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I forgot to post these photos the other day of our return trip from the Gulf Islands to Anacortes. It was a beautiful, smooth cruise the whole way. More eagles: More seals and sea lions: We arrived at our slip, called Customs, and the whole clearing process was pretty easy…
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On our way to meet our friend Steve for dinner and drinks tonight over at A Town Bistro (great, I'll get to that later), we happened past the Dakota Creek shipyard in Anacortes and this amazing boat: Turns out this is the F/V Blue North, an Alaskan Cod Fishery Vessel. From…
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This place! I love seeing the telltale gold light from the porthole in the stateroom. It's my sign to get up and grab my camera. Sunrise at Cabbage and Tumbo was as good if not better than sunset last night. The other direction: Kevin went to retrieve the crab trap…
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Warning: Today was a picture-filled day. I tried to pare it down, but I didn't do too well. This morning before we left Ganges, we took advantage of the very nice free Wi-Fi for a couple hours of work this morning, and then headed up into town for breakfast (and…
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