(In our so-tardy-it-shouldn’t-count second entry for Paper Chef, we stick close to home for our tale of Independence. How close to home? Oh, about 400 yards up the road. And as for that tardy thing — what was it the late, great Douglas Adams once said? Oh yes: “I love [...]

This dish was served on Wednesday, July 12th, 2006 at 11:03 am and is filed under culinary insanity, food blogging events, island local, paper chef, recipes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

I won’t sit still for it.

This dish was served on Sunday, July 9th, 2006 at 10:11 am and is filed under island local, obligatory cats. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

And now, the celebration post, in which Chopper Dave explains the glorious meal he presented for Mrs D on the occasion of their second anniversary. Alas, no maid outfits, no cotton candy, just fine cooking under a crescent moon on the rocky western shore of San Juan.

As most of you are aware, it was [...]

This dish was served on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006 at 11:45 pm and is filed under island local, recipes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Speak now…

March now…

Vote now…

…so someday our children may do the same.

Photos: Friday Harbor 4th of July Parade, 2006

This dish was served on Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 at 10:45 pm and is filed under island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

I wrote this piece back on May 9th, then set it aside for other concerns, and because I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to say. Today, Memorial Day, it seems fitting that I pull it out again and post it, though I’ve always felt it a bit strange that we should set aside [...]

This dish was served on Monday, May 29th, 2006 at 11:56 pm and is filed under island local, metabelly. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

… Chopper made all four of these dishes at once so we could have a true tapas spread (and I could go a little nuts with the photography). I garnished everything with herbs from our garden, quickly snapped away, and then we dug in. And oh, was it good. …

This dish was served on Monday, May 8th, 2006 at 9:53 pm and is filed under food blogging events, island local, paper chef, recipes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

… Alas, Platelicker and The Cat have been usurped by wildlife yet again. It’s not that they weren’t engaged in entertaining and photogenic activities over the weekend — wait a sec, is shedding photogenic? Okay, scratch that last part. …

This dish was served on Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 at 2:21 pm and is filed under island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

… And the bird, which I now realize is a Golden Eagle, looks at me from about 20 feet away and then takes off. So I point and click and am completely amazed that I managed to get the entire bird in the frame. …

This dish was served on Tuesday, March 14th, 2006 at 7:56 pm and is filed under island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Beware the fierce guardian of the ancient temple… she will lick you to death with her mighty tongue!

This dish was served on Sunday, October 30th, 2005 at 7:00 pm and is filed under island local, superfluous dogs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Socked in and surrounded by spiderwebs… it must be Fall.

This dish was served on Friday, September 30th, 2005 at 10:00 am and is filed under island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Cattle Point Lighthouse… just a short drive down the road…

This dish was served on Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 8:25 pm and is filed under island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… While Chopper stayed at the grill station and attended to the salmon, I patrolled both the cooking and the eating areas, snapping pictures – but not too many pictures. I had to have disc space left for the presentation of my Mom’s gift from the Samish, and for the evening’s entertainment: Haida dancers. …

This dish was served on Monday, September 19th, 2005 at 9:22 pm and is filed under island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

(Since we, the notoriously last minute, broke our record for tardiness during Dine & Dish #3 and posted a full two weeks late, for Dine & Dish #4 we offer up this Three Act Drama as an apology, and plead forgiveness for any past transgressions. As for our current transgressions, let us just say that we kid because we love. Honest, we do… Sorry, Rachael. We couldn’t help ourselves.)

This dish was served on Monday, August 22nd, 2005 at 7:53 pm and is filed under dine & dish, food blogging events, island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… So, here I am, flying solo. Granted, Chopper came home for a brief respite between lunch and dinner shifts and spun me some sugar, but the rest of it is mine, all mine, baby.

And, as usual, I got a little carried away. …

This dish was served on Friday, August 12th, 2005 at 11:35 pm and is filed under food blogging events, island local, recipes, sugar high friday. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Ghosts in the mist: False Bay at low tide.

This dish was served on Thursday, August 11th, 2005 at 10:02 pm and is filed under island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… The first of the two Estate grown wines wasn’t available for tasting, so we zeroed in on the second, eager to discover what a truly local wine could offer us — and we were not disappointed. …

This dish was served on Thursday, August 11th, 2005 at 12:29 am and is filed under food blogging events, in vino vis, island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

… But what to do about ingredient #4? We had ripe items in our garden, but we wanted something other than a vegetable and Chopper was getting this serious hankering for a Caribbean-themed meal. That’s it, I said, let’s go to the farmer’s market and see if Spot Prawn Guy is there. …

This dish was served on Tuesday, August 9th, 2005 at 3:09 pm and is filed under food blogging events, island local, paper chef, recipes. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

On the morning’s drive to work: Baling Season.

This dish was served on Thursday, August 4th, 2005 at 11:16 pm and is filed under island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… As I’m writing this, I glance out the front door and see a van from San Juan Vineyards drive past. Out the windows across the room, the harbor sparkles in the morning sun and scattered amongst the yachts and pleasure boats, I can make out the distinct shapes and gear of gillnetters, crab boats, and the few remaining purse seiners from the fleet that, as a child, I watched make the turn round Cattle Point and out into the strait. …

This dish was served on Monday, August 1st, 2005 at 5:56 pm and is filed under island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… Steps, just two months old on July 13th, is tucked into an alley half a block from the ferry line in downtown Friday Harbor. You wouldn’t know what to expect from the street; this isn’t one of those places that announces itself to the world with massive signage or gaudy architecture. A simple banner hangs above the door, and the alley-side footprint is as narrow as an office cubicle. All in all, this is a most unlikely place for a high-end restaurant. …

This dish was served on Thursday, July 28th, 2005 at 2:17 pm and is filed under dine & dish, food blogging events, island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

… Front Street Ale House, our main default, sits just a block away from the ferry dock, overlooking the port of Friday Harbor. On the off season, it’s a great place to sit at the bar and jaw with the bartender (and the assistant brewer who’s there more often than not), and collect our all-the-time happy hour discount by wearing our “bar wear” — two quite stylish Front Street baseball caps. (The bar wear, I should note, extends to boxer shorts, though I couldn’t tell you if patrons are required to drop trou to get their discount.) …

This dish was served on Thursday, April 28th, 2005 at 9:02 pm and is filed under dine & dish, food blogging events, island local. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.