july 14, 2012 dinner

we cooked up some chioggia beets (aka candy-striped beets) in aluminum foil, with a drizzle of oil, some kosher salt, and some quality campfire coal time.

beef tri-tip sirloin, pepper and onion kabobs, in a lime and basil marinade (from mark's daily apple) was also heartily consumed.

nesting boxes for pigeon guillemots on the pier.

july 14, 2012 lunch

on the way to our campsite, we stopped at the port townsend farmer's market. a more idyllic market i can't imagine, with sunny admiralty inlet as a backdrop, the blue crows playing, and colorful produce that would make a crayon cry!

oysters on the grill for lunch with just a squeeze of lemon, plus a salad of greens from the market: beet and mizuna, drizzled with a little olive oil, lemon juice and pepper. perfection.

..and a few rainier cherries to round the whole thing out.

properly satiated, we set off to explore fort worden. it had been thunderstorming earlier, but it ended up being a beautiful day. good for a barefoot walk on the beach out to the point wilson lighthouse.

there are a ton of old abandoned bunkers to explore in the park.

july 6, 2012 lunch

yes, it's a restaurant lunch. california pizza kitchen's moroccan chicken salad, with beets, avocado, butternut squash, almonds, dried cranberries, hard-boiled eggs, etc. quite good, albeit high in sugar, and i wish they would put more chicken in it. the chicken you occasionally unearth are more shavings than chunks. but the flavor is good, and it is a treat to go out, so i'll forgive..

june 27, 2012 breakfast

wednesday breakfast is a slice of green eggs and turkey frittata, crammed to the gills with various veggies, as well as some leftover kohlrabi and beet salad (dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, cilantro and walnuts). the salad sounds and looks a little weird, but it totally rocks my socks! maybe i'll pack some for our zoo concert picnic tonight..

june 25, 2012 dinner

dinner is roasted lamb, served up rare. in the background is a mash of parsnips, turnips, onions and olive oil.

also, this was an interesting experiment - roasted beets and raw kohlrabi, tossed with lemon juice, olive oil and cilantro. the texture was a strange mix, but it was a refreshing and light dish to complement the richer flavors above.

june 15, 2012 lunch

soup! out to lunch with my dad, at vios in third place books (ravenna). this was the soup of the day today, vegetables (not specified, but tomatoes were certainly present) pureed with a roasted red pepper relish, and some haphazard arugula scattered on top. cheers!

and yay! meat! a skewer of lamb, coupled with braised greens, and roasted beets in walnut oil and cumin-red wine vinaigrette. what? yes, it's good.