Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a lovely holiday. We spent ours with friends and family and boy did we have a great time. We visited, played games, hiked, cooked, laughed, shopped, got pedicures, and had an overall fun and mellow break from it all. But mostly, we ate. Kevin's…
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I know, we've been scarce lately. The house remodel is nearing completion (well, the exterior of the house, anyway). We wanted to get as much exterior work done before the weather turned to crap here in the Pacific Northwest, and we almost made it. New garage doors are being installed…
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We've been substituting manhattans or vespers when we feel like a martini…just to mix things up a bit. We hate to be predictable. This is our recent favorite…I call it the Big Gin Vesper. A vesper is typically gin, vodka, and Lillet and originated in the 1953 James Bond novel…
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Okay so I got a little tired of lugging the big Vitamix back and forth from home to the Airstream and back again, so I did a little research and came up with an alternative. I wanted something compact that could do our smoothies and some blended soups and salsa,…
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We're getting low on our supply of our homemade BBQ rub (and we have a brisket on the big Traeger at home right now) so we decided to make a couple big batches of it today. We headed over to Penzey's to pick up the bulk spices we needed, and…
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We really really loved our Traeger Junior. We've had it a few years and it's been good to us. We've cooked everything on it: baby back ribs, salmon, chicken, vegetables, blue cheese stuffed dates, bacon, oysters…you name it. Tiffani and Deke decided to join the Traeger family and got themselves…
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I just read about this sweet new grill and thought I'd share it with you. It's called the Lotus Grill, designed in Australia. It apparently it uses 90 percent less charcoal, reduces cooking time significantly, is dishwasher safe, and designed to drain off grease, making it a very healthy outdoor cooking…
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I couldn't help it. I was in the neighborhood and I found myself in the parking lot of Schoolhouse Electric! What else to do, really? (Okay, so I live in the neighborhood, whatever.) The Airstream's new nesting bowls, by Falconware (low light iPhone photo): I picked up a large white salad bowl from…
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We've been experimenting with s'mores. A couple weeks ago we picked up some gourmet s'mores from The S'more Bakery on Etsy, and also some gourmet marshmallows from Wondermade (including both Guiness and bourbon marshmallows). The gourmet marshmallows all taste delicious, but are useless for proper roasting. They go from fine…
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Today we took a lunch break and headed over to Cora's Crop to pick some fresh blueberries. We each grabbed a small bucket and headed out. (Buck a pound!) We came back with about 8 pounds. We'll freeze some for smoothies and eat some over the next day or so. …
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