One of the main reasons we are staying here at the Pedder Bay Marina RV Park is because it's close to the town of Sooke, home of the Sooke Harbor House. Some friends of ours told us about this place (out on Whiffin Spit, in Sooke, B.C.) many years ago…
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We had this Italian tomato and bread soup twice while we were in Florence. The first time was by far the best (at All'Antico Ristoro di'Cambi). Theirs was spicier than the other version we had and we both loved it, so I set out to recreate it on our first day…
Comments closedI took a quick photo of our dinner last night to post with this recipe, but the photo is really terrible. iPhone photos at night of food just really aren't very appetizing, so I'm going to borrow this photo from allrecipes.com where I looked up the basic ingredients people used…
Comments closedWe'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…
Comments closedOkay 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,…
8 CommentsWe'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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