One word: MESSY Sanitizing and cleaning 30 bottles of wine…is definitely not a good time. So i procrastinated. And ended up bottling the wine three weeks after stablising and clearing (one week later than instructed)…I was just crossing my fingers. Especially since I lost the top that goes on the bung to keep all the …
I must say before this review that I am not very familiar with creole cooking…but when I was in New Orleans this past fall, I fell in love with it. Like Ben says to me, “If you were to ever move to New Orleans…that would be the end of Sandy Lam.” Comfort foods to the …
This is such an interesting group…I may make it a goal of mine to try it sometime! Random people getting together to cook fantastic meals together! Frugal Foodies makes its Seattle debut: http://crosscut.com/2010/01/18/food/19514/
Long story short: I didn’t cook much this week. But here you go! It’s a Trader Joe’s salmon roullette stuffed with spinach florentine. I made my favorite spinach quinoa (pronounced keen-wha) dish with it…but it was a bit too much protein…but incredibly filling. If you don’t know what quinoia is…it’s the must wonderful superfood. Tasty …
I’ve recently joined a club: The Pacific Northwest Cooking and Recipes Meetup and went to the first meeting today. It was fantastic. Here are some of the foods we shared! Crab stuffed mushrooms broiled with white wine Pesto Baguettes (I’m not of the official title) Crab Ragoon (My favorite!! I seriously ate half of these) …
In my perfect world, there are a couple of businesses I would personally bribe to relocate near my home (to be determined) just so I could indulge myself in whatever they had to offer me. One of them, is Bakery Nouveau. It’s probably for the best that it’s a bit of a trip for me …
This week was quite successful in my opinion, besides starting the new year off with a disappointing meal at Claim Jumper. I guess we could start with that so we can end on a happy note. Food Fiascos After a great day snowshoeing to start off the new year, my friends and I were famished. …
Probably the least exciting part of making wine. This is where I lost part of my allure to making my own wine. After 10 days, I checked the wine and measured the gravity. To ensure it’s stability it had to read the same gravity level two days in a row. To pick up all the …
Happy New Year! Since I just started this blog, I’m going to include some earlier food adventures from the month of December. But I’m hoping to make this entry a weekly event. Tasty Triumphs Creamy shrimp bites (these don’t have a real name…I stole the recipe from my mom). This is one of my favorite appetizers …
One winter day the boys and I decided we needed an adventure. So off we went to Stevens Pass to Skyline Lake. It was only a couple miles and started off relatively steep for snowshoeing, but it was a good workout. There was quite a bit of snow so the Lake just looked like a …
So after a week, we (minus Meghan because she’s too busy getting sunburned in New Zealand – plus my friend Sam, who was visiting from Texas) checked the wine to make sure it had reached the correct gravity. Opening the container was an interesting experience…it didn’t smell fantastic, but at least we knew the yeast …
Because this is my most adventurous creation..I finally had enough motivation to start writing this stuff down. Sorry for the lame intro – but welcome! I like wine. Correction: I LOVE WINE. And what better thing for a foodie like me to do but to make some wine of my own? Well…the real goal here …
As one last summer hurrah, Chris and I decided to take a mini trip down the Washington and Oregon Coast. There really is nothing quite like the Northwest coastline. My highlights include horseback riding on the beach, visiting the Tillamook Cheese Factory, and the Rogue brewery.
My two favorite traveling men could not make it to Ireland with me. However, Brandon gave me George, a lovable gorilla who keeps me company when Brandon is away (we live in different cities). Graham brought me back my very own koala as promised from Australia. Which we both decided to name Gumbo. I wanted …
Chris and I went on a 30 mile bike ride along the peninsula. Hands down one of my best moments traveling. I’m fairly determined to be able to explore Ireland only by bike one of these days. We were going to do a loop route, but by the time we got half way through we …
On the bus ride to Dingle. Ireland really is green! Dingle is hands down my favorite part of Ireland. It is where I could imagine myself running away to and living. I remember pulling into town on our bus. Much much smaller than Ozette/Cape Cork, this fishing community was pretty quiet. We checked into our …
My first time out of the country (besides Cananda consisted of a impromptu 10 day trip around Ireland. The whole thing was rather hilarious. I hadn’t even qualified for paid vacation time yet when I requested the time off. But when I took off, I had just enough to spare. Chris’s friend Brenda had randomly …
My first backpacking trip! I tagged along with Chris and his enviromental class to a trip brug to Lake Ozette. We went on a botony tour with a local native which was really fun. Then we My parted ways with the class and took off on my first backpacking trip. We took it pretty easy, …
Epic weekend of Hello adventure. This is why I love the BoekWijzer pacific northwest. Elwa Dam Madison Falls Rialto Beach Lake Crescent La Push Hurricane Ridge Like me! var addthis_config = { url: “https://sandytlam.com/hiking/olympic-peninsula-weekend/”, title: “The Olympic Peninsula in a weekend” } augmentation
