Showing posts with label woodland park zoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label woodland park zoo. Show all posts

Sunday, July 29, 2012

july 29, 2012 breakfast

sunday breakfast is a delicious scramble of eggs, red chard, onions, and garlic. i added turmeric and cayenne - i used to do this scramble with tofu, and all of the flavors really work well together somehow. add to this two pork sausages from A & J meats and we're ready to hit the zoo!
we made a beeline to the family farm area to check out the new piggie on the block, the kunekune. too cute for sausage! kunekune means "fat and round" in maori, and is so fun to say. i am running out of ways to use kunekune in a sentence, but i'm not giving up yet.
it was a hot and sticky day, so the brown bear went for a refreshing dip. he kept dunking his head in and scanning from side to side for trout (his "river" is pretty well stocked), blowing bubbles as his ears rotated above the water's surface. have you ever seen a brown bear blowing bubbles underwater? it was a first for me.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

june 27, 2012 dinner

sitting on the grass in the sun, taking in jake shimabukuro and leo kottke at the zoo. say, this calls for a picnic! there was a big group of us, and we all contributed to the spread. i grazed on salami, olives, pickled hot peppers, strawberries, rainier cherries, almonds and baba ghanouj, with bell pepper and carrot for dipping. i also broke out the leftover kohlrabi, beet and walnut salad.
watching the swallows overhead darting after insects, to a ukulele soundtrack - a perfect summer evening!