tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63888628034221458242024-02-19T02:00:52.239-08:00Honey Bee StingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-82437889576132770482014-08-02T22:16:00.001-07:002014-08-02T22:16:57.459-07:00Gripping song, ever time I hear it i'm amazed<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/oOT2-OTebx0?list=RDrbylI4ld5VE" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-37529435387534989192014-01-20T16:56:00.002-08:002014-01-20T16:56:25.561-08:00Feeling Creative<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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So yeah... I've been busy! I made this little creative piece last year. June 29th to be exact. Ruby is definitely my best work so far ;). She is six and a half months now and I'm feeling antsy and ready to add on my next challenge. There are some exciting things coming up for the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OneNightOnlyProject">One Night Only Project</a> and I couldn't be happier to see where ONO 2014 takes Julien and I.</div>
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I'm ready for new music, lots of it. New beats, new musicians, and concerts. I recently traded in my old Djembe drum (serious hippy African drum that was fun at a lot of parties) for an acoustic guitar! So lessons are in my future. Plus I'm really in need of new inspirational music too.</div>
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With this new year, I'm looking for a new career change. I have my resume's out and I am trying to meet cool folks and hoping to make a good decision on where to plant myself for awhile. I'm looking to learn, use this creative energy and meet inspiring people. </div>
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Other fun goals: Gardening, interior lighting, becoming a baby food making pro and traveling!</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-4226122976684262162013-10-30T11:29:00.000-07:002013-10-30T11:29:01.141-07:00Don't let the audience distract you, this is good.I agree with some of the comments below this video that say that the audience members are too easily impressed and vocal about it, but one thing to remember, this was at a poetry slam where the audience is suppose to react as part of the experience.<br />
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Her words are so well chosen. Fantastic imagery and very telling of women and image.<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zQucWXWXp3k" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-69528086914666262882013-05-02T11:53:00.002-07:002013-05-02T11:53:40.120-07:00Because happiness takes all forms...here is a nice dose of it todayIf you can hold out till the end... you must see the pit bull in the hammer head shark costume...<br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Of2HU3LGdbo" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-34050507518661844832013-03-07T11:54:00.001-08:002013-03-07T12:02:11.042-08:00 Do you remember your first bowl of Pho? <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Pho sure!... And I also remember my second.<br />
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The first time was on accident. It was at least fifteen years ago in Pioneer Square, downtown Seattle. The small Vietnamese restaurant isn't even there anymore. I ordered what sounded like a delicious noodle soup, naturally it was cold and raining here in Seattle and it seemed the perfect thing to order. The owner of the restaurant was quite pleased that my friend and I had ordered this specific soup and began to bring out a tray of condiments to accompany our choice. Hoisin sauce, chili paste, a stalk of fresh basil leaves, fresh limes and bean sprouts. It was all quite exciting. When the soup arrived it was dark, brothy and beefy delicious and had the aroma of cinnamon, cilantro and onions. I didn't really think it needed messing with, but the owner was persistent to explain how pho works. With smiles and enough hand gestures, together, my dining mate and I learned how to eat pho.<br />
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Second time was a couple years later at the <a href="http://www.thanbrothers.com/">Than Brothers</a> on Broadway. The main reason for going there was because I had heard it was so cheap. Being right out of college- eating something filling for $5 is worth seeking out. Plus, you know a place is going to be okay when they only serve one thing. The Than Brothers are also famous for their mini cream puffs they give you before your soup is delivered to your table, which if you have been to a pho restaurant recently, your soup comes out within a couple minutes of ordering it. This light and airy dessert before your meal is just an added bonus. Cream puffs, baguette Banh Mi sandwiches with pate and pho are actually all a major part of Vietnamese cuisine which we can attribute to <a href="http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/01/a-basic-introduction-to-vietnamese-food.html">French Colonists <span id="goog_322941831"></span><span id="goog_322941832"></span>as far back as the 18th century</a>. The base for pho soup is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consomm%C3%A9">consomme</a>, a classic French style soup made clear by a clarifying process using aromatics, egg whites and usually a <i>meat raft. </i>A meat raft sounds pretty gross, but it's like a magnet, collecting impurities and particles in the broth and catching them all into one big aromatic meatball that is discarded once the broth is clear. If you think about it, there is quite the process to make quality pho. <br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">And now, I'm on a quest for just that. My husband loves the tripe and pig hearts you can get when you travel up north on 99. He asks the servers that he wants <i>what they eat</i> when they eat pho, something that's not on the menu. But it's not so much what's in the soup- I'll gladly take soft tendon, fatty flank and meatballs, it's really all about the broth for me. A trip to pho is never complete without a few un-phogettable puns and a reminder to wear your pho-jacket, as you will be wearing it's perfume long after you leave the restaurant.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Feel like making it yourself? Here's a couple awesome recipes, one from <a href="http://www.steamykitchen.com/271-vietnamese-beef-noodle-soup-pho.html">Steamy Kitchen</a> and another from <a href="http://allrecipes.com/recipe/beef-pho/">Allrecipes.com.</a></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The Seattle sensation, Macklemore also has a fondness for the rice noodle soup- in fact, Bon Appetite just interviewed him about it and who knew that pho was part of the Seattle hip hop culture? Check out</span></div>
<a href="http://www.bonappetit.com/blogsandforums/blogs/badaily/2013/03/macklemore-loves-pho.html">Bon Appetite Magazine's interview of Macklemore</a>'s love of pho and this incredible song by<a href="http://houseofsabzi.com/"> Sabzi</a>- another Northwest rapper who loves pho.<br />
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Just a small selection of fun pics from last year...I'm sure I'll be adding to them as I find them.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'm a proud owner of a clam gun.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long Beach, WA 7 am Easter 2012 "Razor Clam Hunting"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bull Whip Kelp</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark and one of the first Razor Clams! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We caught 19 Razor Clams in two Days</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family photo Long Beach WA</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Green lake Celebrity</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A romantic trip to Catalina Island, CA</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wrigley Botanical Garden on Catalina Island</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Birthday - We rented a Hot Tub boat! It was awesome.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On our way back from Katy's wedding, we indulged in Yakima's finest peaches</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two of my favorite people in the world: Aunt Rae and Uncle Steve cruising around in his Chris Craft boat, Mambo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prunella stretching at our campsite outside Yakima, WA in September</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Having fun wine tasting in Zilla, WA I'm sporting a new dress</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hundreds of stacks of apple boxes lined up downtown Yakima</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite pics. Mark caught a fish within minutes of casting. Taken in September </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here's one of them! What a hog!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the spaces Julien and I discovered while searching for spaces for the ONO Project. Very Edward Scissor Hands. Not suitable for dinner, but cool.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here's one of the spaces that we had Mark Fuller's ONO dinner at- a winery spot in South Lake Union August</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A gorgeous picture of a dish from our first ONO project with Brandon Kirksey, June </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark and I crushing Cabernet Grapes with the 36th ave Winemakers September</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mark and I made fresh pasta in our kitchen...was pretty good! Fall</td></tr>
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Steve was going through a couple of my mother's books and magazines and came across the most lovely list my mother had written in 2007 titled, "Things I love." I have scanned it here.<br />
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Doesn't it just make you smile? I mean, #4 <i>"My Chickens and Their Songs,"</i> That's enough to melt your heart right there. She really loved the simple pleasures in life. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My mother holding "Turkeena" her adolescent midget white heritage turkey</td></tr>
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She will be missed tremendously. What might be the biggest loss is for the people who never had a chance to really know who this person was. <br />
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<b>This is ther eulogy I wrote and read at my mother's service:</b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Never, Never, Never , Never give up</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a saying by Winston Churchill and also my family’s motto. Our father Jim used to like to say this about everything difficult in life and we had this message framed for him for his desk. When my father became ill, and then my mother, this mantra became the driving force in which to keep our close family nit going.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Never giving up describes who Candy was as a person. She was also incredibly selfless, compassionate and kind. I always felt proud to have Candy as my mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She truly was one of these people that was just as beautiful inside as she was outside. I realize all of us here have lost a mother, sister or a dear friend but what I might be most sad is that there are so many people who will never get to meet who she was, laugh hysterically with her or feel as good as she could make you feel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When you think of Candy, you think of her 1000 watt smile and that gorgeous red hair. She was a beam of sunlight when she walked into a room . Candy was always cracking jokes and making faces and making up songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We spoke on the phone every day, sometimes multiple times a day. We were closer than mother and daughter. She was one of my best friends. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Many people might not know, but Candy read a lot and if she wasn’t reading she was listening to books on tape or CD. She had to be constantly moving, whether it was keeping house, cooking or gardening, she wasn’t one to sit still. A trait instilled in all of us kids at an early age. We were never allowed to stay inside on a nice day- she didn’t make time to watch tv, it was wasting your life, bored people were boring people and by the looks of her sewing /craft room, SHE WAS NOT BORED! You would wonder when she would find time to make all the projects that she had on her list. I was jealous of her ease at sewing anything perfect, and if it wasn’t right the first, second or third time , she would rip out all the seams immediately and start again.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Candy was also an incredible cook. Besides learning secrets from Step Mother’s Dolly and Sharon, she took several cooking classes at Uwajima, falling in love with Asian flavors. Even in her last months at her home, there wasn’t a week that went by where one of us kids or family caretakers watched the Barefoot Contessa, Giada or Paula Deen whip up something delicious on the Food Network next to Candy. She would say to me. “I really miss cooking,” when I get better, I’m going to make that. She loved biscuits and gravy, watermelon, cream sauced fresh pastas and all types of seafood. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a running joke every time Candy cooked, it was “Candy Surprise” because she was always making some new recipe that she had never tried out of magazine or cookbook.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I use to tease my mother that she was secretly from Texas because she was always wearing really loud clothing to go with her already expressive hair color, big earrings and she loved southern-style food, including sweet tea, coconut and banana cream pies and most deep fried delicacies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My mom use to wear this vintage A-line mustard yellow dress with a giant Pepsi bottle on it and the words “Pepsi, Come Alive!” in big bold letters. When she first acquired this dress I was mortified as a pre-teen. She would wear the dress to family reunions and to my embarrassment out in public! Now, it is one of the things I love most dearly about my mother, that dress.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Candy liked short-fat round things like chickens, hippos, Pillsbury Doughboy, pug dogs and frogs and of course, flowers of any kind. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I think of my mother as a modern-day Peter Pan, besides being a young mother, she was an incredibly youthful person in general. I’d ask her all the time what she wanted to be when she “grew up” and she said, “I don’t know, I just like making things, but more than anything I really wanted to be a mother.”</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-90472751761269912292012-01-12T22:23:00.000-08:002012-01-12T22:23:27.231-08:00Candy Marie Thornton-Evavold June 19th 1955- January 10th 2012<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-12775790056573566082011-12-29T00:09:00.000-08:002011-12-29T00:20:07.689-08:00A little break from my crazinessI just watched <i>You, Me and Everyone Else, </i>an odd movie that makes you uncomfortable, smile and question things. Mark would consider it, one of my arts-y flicks. Here is my favorite moment in the whole movie that you might like. Minute 1:48 is where it gets super real...that delicious uncomfortable squirmy love feeling and it's done so well. One of my favorite quotes of the movie- not mentioned in this clip is <br />
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"I want to be swept off my feet you know, I want my children to have magical powers, I am prepared for amazing things to happen."<br />
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I couldn't agree more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-55183796485857813992011-11-08T11:57:00.000-08:002011-11-08T11:58:10.616-08:00Be the Jellyfish<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAof19GVBNkqH2UQgD3zgQJhqA2ixycmN9A06zwsn7KPKot-vRROlhdTUjwqSMa1ngEkEZTuIsuZvxoAaL2vDcgG3MPpmhc408gY9RAJv3VBkjvDa3BH_LI9suZNjuI8DsJLi-IBEzBvU/s1600/photo%252854%2529.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAof19GVBNkqH2UQgD3zgQJhqA2ixycmN9A06zwsn7KPKot-vRROlhdTUjwqSMa1ngEkEZTuIsuZvxoAaL2vDcgG3MPpmhc408gY9RAJv3VBkjvDa3BH_LI9suZNjuI8DsJLi-IBEzBvU/s400/photo%252854%2529.JPG" width="400" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFSBU6NkPJZ85YkBb5fr1Ausqefzt-SF2vIpIcg3hH-Iff9rOTsK3zfX7q2ZpQj99GcQMQfoHmXwoSpkG6uA5vKFz8C73GIh64sqek5XcHyXKd9T7G-1xFerc5JN99DoU0BsfVPyxbaU/s1600/photo%252856%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was waiting for the Orcas Island Ferry in early August and witnessed this stunning jellyfish, just off the shore. I took several photos of it just riding the currents and was instantly captivated at its ghostlike form. Mark reminded me that jellyfish are an example of one of the very first nervous systems, also known as a </span><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Medusa. </i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Jellyfish don't have a brain, they are simply a large jelly mass of nerves, going with the flow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I spent a little bit of time on Orcas Island this summer preparing and then actually cooking for a gorgeous country-style wedding. An American marrying an New Zealander all the way over on Orcas. It was a magical weekend and the food wasn't too bad either. </span><br />
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Then there is the <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/helen_fisher_tells_us_why_we_love_cheat.html">TED talk by Helen Fisher</a>... who talks about romantic love and sex. Fascinating research regarding why we fall in love with one person rather than another. Her answer, "Timing, proximity, mystery. Mystery elevates dopamine and the brain pushes you over the threshold to fall in love with someone who fits in your 'love map'- a conscious list of traits that you hold onto when you grow up, and you gravitate towards people with complimentary brain systems."<br />
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I completely believe in manifesting reality. I wish I had access to some shortcuts however. Sometimes I wonder how certain things surface and become apart of my life. Everything is a learning experience and I often wonder "why the hell is this happening," until after it's over and I am a changed person with new vision, or at least, sharper lenses. Most of us have very round edges or somewhat fuzzy vision until we have a few experiences to make things clear.You know what they say, "enjoy the journey.." but what if your journey is a rusting, rattling bus with no brakes or seat belts and you want to get off? I suppose that's when you jump up into the driver seat and take the wheel.<br />
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Lot's coming up! Bottling at <a href="http://www.elsomcellars.com/">Elsom Cellars</a> is around the corner, then harvest! Other dinners, <a href="http://slowfoodseattle.wordpress.com/">Slow Food Seattle</a> and freelance projects in the works. AND little Prunella turns one in September! <br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">I'm trying to find other things to be happy about when times are tough and the weather is dull, like </span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.spotify.com/us/mobile/overview/">Spotify </a></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">I'm enjoying this awesome new music website </span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">and still learning how to navigate its waters. I'm trying very hard to enjoy the moment and stress less. Nasturtiums are blooming, I just paid my car off, and i splurged on going more blonde= more sunshine substitutes! </span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Lastly, I'm loving the Head and the Heart and want to leave you with this magical video: </span><br />
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Thought Catalog is an interesting blog with well written random ideas.---> at least that is my take on it.<br />
There are some lines in the piece that I want to highlight in bright yellow, hang on bookstore walls and make my Facebook status for eternity. I've highlighted a couple lines in the actual piece below.Oh it's so good, it makes me ache.<br />
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The way I feel about cooking is really similar to how I feel about writing. I'm never satisfied. I learn and experiement, I am inspired and fulfilled and I then I create and question.<br />
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Writing classes are funny in that they ask you to "think of your audience." I realize this is important if you are writing for a niche magazine or trying to sell something, but if you are paranoid from the beginning on what your audience may think while you are writing it, than, I feel that it takes away from true writing, aka, free flowing style of writing. Cooking is similar.<br />
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Half of the time I am thinking of my audience. The other half, I am thinking for myself. Will people eat this? What will they think of this? Is this worth the price? I think these tomatoes are stunning. What is the best way to show case their true flavor and appearance? Will they hate it? Like writing, cooking is an expression that provokes outside opinion- "what did you think of my piece?" "How was your steak?" If you over-think what you originally wanted to cook, than you're a slave to the critique and not truly cooking, or writing for yourself. The truest and most desirable works of art (if we can go there, without sounding too high and mighty), are expressions of oneself as if no one really asked to see it. Without further ado, below is the piece by Ms. Eliot Rose, with my highlights of course, soon to be on Subways, kiosks and plastered in high school English class rooms. <br />
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<b>The Difference Between a Writer and Someone Who Writes- By Eliot Rose</b><br />
<i>A writer is not just someone who writes. In her head, it’s words all day. She sees the world not as a place made up of things but of words about those things. She knows more meaning is contained in a phrase like “<a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/2011/true-life-im-boy-crazy/" target="_blank" title="poison friends">poison friends</a>” than a paragraph-long attempt at comparing emotional pain to a stab wound. A writer will divine a metaphor from a pattern on a dress, or a gesture, because sunsets have been done before. A writer understands the capacity for words to embolden, to eviscerate, to cut a man in half. <span style="background-color: #ffd966;">A writer’s words have texture and an aesthetic – they mean one thing on paper and another in your mouth. A writer knows the word “perfume” has a scent, and “savory,” a flavor. She also knows that the technical term for making you taste her words is synesthesia, but she’d rather show you than tell you.</span></i><br />
<i> </i><i>A writer’s mind is sticky, cavernous. It is a locus of constant invention and generation, but also of deconstruction and warfare. Its very synapses fire bullets between semicolons and periods. <span style="background-color: #ffd966;">In the infancy of the day, or as it’s expelling its final breath, an errant phrase will show up there unannounced and become lodged in some furrow. It will keep the writer up at night, until she’s built a temple, or at the very least, a sand castle, around it.</span></i><br />
<i> </i><i>A writer believes in truth but understands the utility of a lie. Someone who writes will think about a lie in terms of its anatomy: she’ll see it as something with dead legs, flayed on a cold steel table, reeking of that stuff we use now instead of formaldehyde, because formaldehyde will kill you, too. But a writer believes in a lie’s biology and knows it is still alive, animated by some preternatural aspiration, an amorphous mass of amorphous cells, dividing and multiplying and taking on some new architecture every time you look at it. A writer knows a lie doesn’t want to die.</i><br />
<i> </i><i>Someone who writes writes from a place of common experience in a common language, beleaguered by tired phrases and obvious similes, for those we call in my day job “the mass market consumer.” This is the audience who rapid-fire tweets without adding commentary. A blogger writes for the Facebook share; a writer writes for mind share.<span style="background-color: #ffd966;"> But still, in a way, a writer writes for herself.</span> She knows her best work will get the least traction because the mass market consumer didn’t study English literature and doesn’t have the means to do the heavy lifting of literary analysis. And that’s OK. She writes for them, too, but only because it’s a way in. It’s sort of like when Ryan Gosling does one <i>Notebook</i> for every four <i>Blue Valentine</i>s. A writer knows you’ll get that analogy but kicks herself for drawing it.</i><br />
<i> </i><i>Someone who writes writes as herself. A writer’s voice, on the other hand, is chameleon-like. <span style="background-color: #ffd966;">She can write from the perspective of a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_Loud_and_Incredibly_Close" style="background-color: #ffd966;" target="_blank" title="nine-year-old child">nine-year-old child</a><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"> or a </span><a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/2011/55556/" style="background-color: #ffd966;" target="_blank" title="pair of hands">pair of hands</a><span style="background-color: #ffd966;"> and make you </span><i style="background-color: #ffd966;">believe</i><span style="background-color: #ffd966;">. A writer knows exactly what T.S. Eliot meant when he wrote, “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”</span> A writer not only fashions the image of a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas, but could tease speech out of those waves and teach sign language to those claws. A writer drowns in deeper oceans.</i><br />
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<div style="background-color: #ffd966;"><i>Someone who writes understands writing in terms of something she does, not in terms of something she is. A writer is aware of the singular stuff of which her soul is composed, but will never shake that gnawing feeling of inadequacy. She will be at once inspired and made to feel inferior by other writers’ words. But she’ll never let that stop her. She’ll continue to see the poetry in a broken watch, or a dog with one blue eye and one brown. She will give you her heart on a Saturday night for the story she gets to tell on a Sunday afternoon. She will give you her soul always. And she will give it to you in writing. <span class="tc_mark"><img alt="TC mark" src="http://thoughtcatalog.com/wp-content/themes/thought_catalog/images/tc_mark.gif" /></span></i></div><div style="background-color: #ffd966;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-35757326068826603362011-06-09T12:26:00.000-07:002011-06-09T12:26:19.921-07:00Bottling Wine with the 36th Ave Winemakers and Manifesting Loveliness<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Last Sunday I joined the 36th Ave Winemakers in my aunt and uncle's backyard to help bottle the 2009 Mueller. Once the last golden carboy was drained, and the pristine white wine bottles filled, I had to snap a photo with my phone. As if it didn't already look like a scene one might set up for Gourmet Magazine, I wish I had taken a shot of the homemade goose sausage and the kalamata olive shortbread cookies that others had brought.<br />
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Each time I visit my Uncle Steve and Aunt Rae's house, a wave of nostalgia rushes over me. Playing hide and go seek with the cousins at family reunions, picking raspberries in their garden, always finding something wonderful to nibble on in their kitchen and always admiring their art. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lilac season is always too short. Prunella digs them too.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I haven't been overly inspired to cook lately. Mark made a lovely homemade squid marinara for me the other night, and I did saute some mushrooms with a basil pesto over salmon recently, but all my creative energy is sucked up with the New <a href="http://www.vineyardtablecatering.com/">Vineyard Table Catering</a> project, which is so very exciting!<br />
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I haven't even been gardening. I did manage to start some nasturtiums and I do plan to get some weeding done sooner or later. of all things, I've been inspired by all the poppies and peonies that are starting to bloom and I definitely want to put those on the list to plant next year!<br />
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I did manage to catch an attractive glimpse of this fast b.l.a.t. that I made for a recent road trip with Mark.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On another note, I finally forced myself to take another creative writing class at the <a href="http://www.hugohouse.org/">Richard Hugo House</a>. Creative non-fiction! My favorite. I'm suppose to bring 4,000 words to work with. At first I found this to be impossible and limiting. But I already know what I am going to write about, even if it crushes me. It's called "expressions of my father." I'll post it when I get to a point when I am feeling more complete about it.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To get my creative juices flowing, all I really needed to do was read Blood Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton. Mentally delicious. I needed a kick start- something to move me and it is full of gritty inspiration. Yes of course it's about food and chefs and struggle, and many other things that make me say, "ahh," out loud on a crowded airplane, but when was the last time I did that? mmmmm satisfying.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I've been seeking inspiration, and manifesting loveliness. I'm on a creative mission. What I am finding is that if you put it out there into the world, it will start coming back to you. Like exercising anything, the hardest part is starting. But once you are in a good rhythm, things come so much easier. There has been an abundance of inspirational conversation lately with great chefs like Kristen Schumacher and winemakers like Leroy Radford and I want to keep it all flowing. And on that note- a little inspiration, aka Bryan John Appleby, Cliffs Along the Sea.</div><br />
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HHcKx9eHb54" width="560"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-19534604861758119692011-06-02T11:19:00.000-07:002011-06-03T15:20:56.076-07:00Slow Food Teams up with Heath Putnam Farms and Serious Pie!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6liRgphFJdO5my3WkxfhmPEf0FT-m-z_V8ydPjINT-7aX_BYC5-EaMa9swbCTrlY4UqAzfAkyA3npd3iPmtFSPpGiYD1TUDmUUa__UrN5Ftin0U_rNGgnkM9x-2OcNkz5OSKjb47JrJo/s1600/slowfoodseattle2011logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6liRgphFJdO5my3WkxfhmPEf0FT-m-z_V8ydPjINT-7aX_BYC5-EaMa9swbCTrlY4UqAzfAkyA3npd3iPmtFSPpGiYD1TUDmUUa__UrN5Ftin0U_rNGgnkM9x-2OcNkz5OSKjb47JrJo/s1600/slowfoodseattle2011logo.jpg" /></a></div><div class="post-info"><h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://slowfoodseattle.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/mangalitsaclass/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: SOLD OUT – June 26: Learn to Make Pancetta and Lardo with Mangalitsa Pork">SOLD OUT – June 26: Learn to Make Pancetta and Lardo with Mangalitsa Pork</a></h2></div><div class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 483px;"><a href="http://woolypigs.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Mangalitsa Pig" height="290" src="http://woolypigs.com/imgs/sbmanga_big.jpg" title="Mangalitsa Pig" width="473" /></a><br />
<div class="wp-caption-text">Mangalitsa Pig</div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>[To be added to our cancellation list for this event, drop us a note with your name, email, and phone number. If anyone cancels, we'll put you in touch with them to buy their ticket.]</b></i></div>Join <a href="http://www.slowfoodseattle.org/" target="_blank">Slow Food Seattle</a> on<b> Sunday, June 26th from 3-5pm</b> and learn how to make your own homemade Mangalitsa <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancetta" target="_blank">pancetta</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardo" target="_blank">lardo</a> at the Westlake <a href="http://seriouspiewestlake.com/" target="_blank">Serious Pie</a> location in South Lake Union. Heath Putnam (founder of <a href="http://woolypigs.com/" target="_blank">Heath Putnam Farms</a>) and Serious Pie chefs Tony Catini and Kenan Fox will lead a class on curing and producing lardo and pancetta with Mangalitsa pork. After the Mangalitsa presentation and demonstration, we’ll enjoy a three-course lunch provided by Serious Pie.<br />
<a href="http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/180367/ref/6920"><img alt="Brown Paper Tickets" class="alignright" height="91" src="http://www.brownpapertickets.com//g/fl/bpt_l.gif" title="Brown Paper Tickets" width="180" /></a><b><i>Capacity for the class and lunch is 25 people as space is limited.</i></b><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">Participants will be able to take their lardo home the day of the event, and can pick-up their pancetta once it has cured.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: left;">$50/person – Ticket includes the class, lunch, and selections of lardo and pancetta to take home.</div><div align="center" style="text-align: left;"><i>Slow Food Members receive advance notice and a discounted rate for all of our events. This one currently has <b>just 9 spots left!</b></i></div><div align="center" style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="mailto:info@slowfoodseattle.org?subject=I%27m%20a%20Slow%20Food%20member,%20send%20me%20the%20promo%20code%21" target="_blank">Current Slow Food Members: email us for the member discount code</a></b></div><div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 262px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancetta" target="_blank"><img alt="Pancetta" height="204" src="http://www.almagourmet.com/store/images/pancetta.jpg" title="Pancetta" width="252" /></a><br />
<div class="wp-caption-text">Pancetta</div></div><div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 266px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardo" target="_blank"><img alt="Lardo" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyARSisIQVd3tUmJZzV-c1cOlFp3XgyLWp3eHaVRGcVs9GCDwaoz3odBff0foSLiHz0RKahJAhc8abQ7Y873DXcVsdeElqdOaayRMgK8hM0nYmPweMwXTy5OuhkD1vqjEocrSzkXusbOu2/s320/lardo.jpg" title="Lardo" width="256" /></a><br />
<div class="wp-caption-text">Lardo</div></div>According to Putnam, <i>“Mangalitsa pigs are a traditional breed, essentially unchanged from 1833. In the past, when plant oils and margarine weren’t available, Mangalitsa pigs produced the fatty products like lard, lardo and bacon that consumers demanded. Mangalitsa pigs aren’t necessary anymore, but they taste the best and produce the best products.”</i><br />
<b>What is a Mangalitsa Pig?</b><br />
In 2006, Heath Putnam, the founder of Heath Putnam Farms, encountered Mangalitsa while working in Europe. Impressed by its exceptional quality, and aware that America had nothing comparable, he imported a herd and began production here in Washington State. Unlike all popular breeds of hogs, which are meat-type, the Mangalitsa is an extreme lard-type breed. The Mangalitsa (pronounced MON-go-leet-sa) was created in 1833 by the Hungarian Royal Archduke Jozsef. Lard-type breeds produce high-quality fat and very marbled, juicy and flavorful meat. Mangalitsa fat is more unsaturated than normal pig fat, so it tastes much<i> lighter</i>,<i> cleaner</i> and melts at a lower temperature. The fat is also healthier and keeps longer, due to higher levels of oleic acid. For more information on Mangalitsa pork and where to find it, visit <a href="http://woolypigs.com/" target="_blank">Heath Putnam Farms</a>.<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://seriouspiewestlake.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="Serious Pie" class="aligncenter" height="293" src="http://seriouspiewestlake.com/uploads/images/structure/logo.gif" title="Serious Pie" width="302" /></a><br />
<a href="http://woolypigs.com/"><img alt="Wooly Pigs" class="aligncenter" height="150" src="http://woolypigs.com/imgs/logo.gif" title="Wooly Pigs" width="200" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-44626603719704749362011-05-10T13:42:00.000-07:002011-05-10T13:42:23.964-07:00The Last Vineyard Table Supperclub... RevisitedLike many people who try to keep up on their blogs, I have this personal guilt when I don't post as often as I'd like. I have draft upon draft of blogs that will never be seen, because I don't take the time to edit or finish them- regardless of glaring mistakes or regrets that several confessions should have been screened ...slightly, I just need to simply hit post and get it out there. People hate reading apologies, (<i>just do it already!</i>) and I'm one of them!<br />
So- I give you a long overdue blog post, a bittersweet photo montage of the last Vineyard Table Supperclub that was at the SODO location. The previous <a href="http://the-vineyard-table.com/default.aspx">Vineyard Table</a> is no more, but the silver lining is there is a group of us at <a href="http://www.elsomcellars.com/">Elsom Cellars</a> who are slowly breathing life back into it. Soon we will be unearthing the bones, removing the wraps and resuscitating the magic that was and all the beautiful things that were created from it, will be again. Interested in throwing a party? Email me: melissa@elsomcellars.com<br />
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This last supper club was created with my close chef friend, <a href="http://heirloomchef.blogspot.com/">Kristen Schumacher of Heirloom.</a> Her recap of the dinner can be found <a href="http://heirloomchef.blogspot.com/2011/02/last-vineyard-table-secret-supper.html">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spices, sauce and pork to make homemade chorizo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristen's homemade chorizo </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The table set- mismatched silver just adds character</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Butchering squid, moments before the soup. Hint: butcher your own- creates the best texture</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bread, Chicken Liver Mousse, butter with Himalayan Sea Salt, Caramelized Pears </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristen and I explain the next course</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pork belly bite on arugula with grapefruit vinaigrette, pomegranate gastrique</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flying dreams sauv blanc, signed by the winemaker, Leroy Radford</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spanish-inspired Fisherman's stew, squid, fish, house-made chorizo and proscuitto chip</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Vineyard Table</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Leroy explains his wine while pouring for the soup course</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">2007 Elsom Cellars Malbec</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristen cracks quail eggs </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slow Roasted Goat Mole, Manchego Polenta, Fried Quail Egg and Pickled Watermelon Radish</td></tr>
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When I looked at the date of my last post, I had conflicting emotions. First I thought to myself, whoa, it's been awhile, tangled with the feeling of really? That was <i>just</i> in January? <br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/frubix/sets/72157626282739170/with/5533617074">Prunella</a> is almost full grown, coming up on 8 months. The two blueberry bushes, named after my parents are starting to blossom and I'm feeling a great need to cut my hair.<br />
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</tbody></table>It's spring and my upcoming vacation has set me on a new time clock. It's called: it's time to get out of town and restart. Two delicious weeks in Belize cannot come soon enough.<br />
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</tbody></table>I like change probably more than the average person. Last year was enough change for three lifetimes, and I should take it easy, but I'm not one to just sit and wait.<br />
Call me impatient, overly eager, or just lucky, but I've found a great match career wise.<br />
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People know that I am an incredibly hard worker and it's nice to be truly needed at work. The kind of appreciation usually falls in the "thank god for those volunteers" kind of mentality. That is the kind of need I'm feeling now, so much so, that I have an intern helping me out. And you are fabulous Erich!<br />
I'm on this kick to try and appreciate where I am in the present moment, not allowing my future self to critique everything. <br />
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<span id="goog_1176141355"></span><span id="goog_1176141356"></span>Being present may be the most difficult thing to do. Not thinking of the future, not thinking of money and bills, appointments or feeling the need to keep up with friends and family. I think kids do this best, living in the moment that is. Can you imagine if you were able to preview your life at age 8 and see what was ahead? We'd all hop on trains and get the hell out of town.<br />
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I'm honored and thrilled to be apart of this awesome organization, and my learning curve is STEEP. There is a mountain of work to be done as co-chair, more than a full time job, but like a shark that needs to move to stay alive, I'm definitely alive and on the move. The <a href="http://www.woolypigs.com/">Mangalista </a>soap in the above photo was given to me by the one and only, Heath Putnam. The man who brought over the Wooly Pigs from Austria. We had a very interesting dinner together at Serious Pie in Seattle, where we talked pig- slow pig and ideas to bring people and mangalista together. A butchering class? Make your own pancetta or bacon together? We shall see. Meanwhile, there is a lot of cooking and wine making to be done. Enough of this sitting around and day dreaming...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-58636927042009391822011-01-11T19:26:00.000-08:002011-01-11T19:29:54.175-08:00Braised Beef Shanks topped with Slow Roasted Cherry Tomatoes, Chorizo, Caramelized Fennel and Onion Confit....Because it's snowing outside and you need something hot.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Ingredients</span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">5 sprigs fresh thyme, divided</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">4 cups cherry tomatoes</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">6-8 beef shanks, depending on size</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">kitchen string for tying shanks</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">¼ cup flour, seasoned with a pinch of salt and pepper</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1/4 cup olive oil, divided</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1 yellow onion, chopped</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1 carrot, chopped</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1 stalk celery, chopped</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2 tablespoons tomato paste</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">½ cup red wine</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">5 cups beef stock</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">2 bay leaves</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Salt and pepper</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">½ fennel bulb</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1 large sweet onion, sliced</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">1 cup ground pork chorizo</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Preheat oven to 300®F. Toss cherry tomatoes with two tablespoons olive oil, three sprigs of picked fresh thyme and salt and pepper in a bowl. Transfer tomatoes to a baking sheet and place in the oven for 25 minutes. Remove from oven and cool.</span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Meanwhile, tie each beef shank meat to the bone, like wrapping a package. Lightly coat beef shanks in seasoned flour, shake off any excess and set aside on a plate. Add a tablespoon of olive oil to a large sauté pan with high sides over high heat. Sear beef shanks until browned on both sides. Remove shanks from pan and set on a plate, leaving juices in the pan. Add chopped onions, carrot and celery to the pan and season with salt and pepper. Sauté for 5 minutes over medium heat, stirring constantly. Add garlic and tomato paste and stir to coat. Cook an additional 2 minutes, add a splash of olive oil if necessary for stirring. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Add wine and stir, scraping up the bits from the bottom of the pan. Stir. After another 2 minutes, add stock and stir until it simmers. Add bay leaves and two sprigs of fresh thyme. Add shanks to the pan and cover with a lid or foil and place into the preheated oven. Cook for 5 hours minimum, turning shanks half way through cooking. The meat should be falling off the bone. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">While the shanks are cooking, add two tablespoons of olive oil to a medium saute pan over medium-high heat. Once hot, add sliced fennel and a pinch of salt and pepper. Stir and cook for 5 minutes. Reduce heat and cook an additional 10 minutes until fennel is caramelized. Remove from heat and set aside. Repeat this caramelizing process using the same pan with the chopped sweet onions and set aside. Use this same pan again and cook the ground pork chorizo over medium-high heat until fully cooked. Drain on a paper-towel lined plate. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Once the beef shanks are done, carefully remove the kitchen string from each one and discard. Serve beef shanks with the bone-in or use two forks to remove meat from the bone. Set a beef shank on a plate and top with warmed caramelized fennel, caramelized onions, slow cooked cherry tomates and a spooful of cooked chorizo. Drizzel a spoonful of the cooking sauce over all. Serve with mash potatoes, creamy polenta or seasoned white beans. </span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A cheerful bunch sitting around the original Vineyard Table Oct. 25th 2010 -Photo by Kevin Fry</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX-sUOWQ_akqmHpi6pDWAbwRfaWM1IXFVTEtLQViFMKjQ1i5wlshvqitJGL7s4pflmGIv-y_MM9rPVMcRAhL9Q6vlG6yL30hDq_q6cviIxzx2yJ5dtd5dlCZC4d58OxEKNhJphaTfivBA/s1600/Super+Secret+Supper-16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> If you asked me what I love doing more than anything else, it's eating really good food and drinking great wine with fantastic company. I think most of us find those opportunities on the top of our list as "some of the best times we have ever had." Even if you handed me a box of 2010 chablis from Safeway Select and paired it with some horrific Kraft singles, I could find joy in it depending on the company I was dining with. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Of course if you handed me a slice of homemade pie from your great, great grandmother's recipe that she smuggled out of an Armenian bakery's secret recipe box in her brassier, I might find more satisfaction in that slice of pie. At the end of the day, it's the overall experience, each component coming together: the music, the wine, the lighting, food and of course your dining partners all help make an unforgettable meal. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On the contrary, I've had just as unforgettable dining moments when music, lighting and other components were truly out of my hands and thankfully so! All I would gladly replicate if given the chance; a simple meal of clams dug out of the sand on a beach in Thailand, a bottle of wine, a hunk of cheese and a baguette while overlooking the vineyards in San Gimignano, Italy, or eating elk and venison sausage, freshly-cold smoked over applewood in the snow, courtesy of my cousins who hunt.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Therefore, when the opportunity to throw a couple special secret suppers at <a href="http://the-vineyard-table.com/default.aspx">The Vineyard Table</a> during its last remaining weeks before it got packed up into storage came up, I didn't want to offer just any old dinner party. On Monday, October 25th and again on November 21st, we hosted 22 people at the Vineyard Table for a plated Secret Supper Club. Below are some images, courtesy of photographer <a href="http://www.kevinfry.com/index2.php#/home/">Kevin Fry</a> from the first supper club on October 25th.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me prepping sliced pears</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jason Driscoll slicing into the slow roasted beef shank</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the lovely guests, Sarah, Lucas and Meagan enjoying proscecco with appetizers before dinner</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Vineyard Table Secret Supper Club Menu</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><b>October 25<sup>th</sup> 2010</b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"> </div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i>Blue Cheese On Apple Slices</i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i>Avocado Toast with Sardines and Sherry Vinaigrette </i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;">Prosecco</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i>Sweet Corn Soup with Dungeness Crab and Tarragon Oil</i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><i>Bread with Butter and Sea Salt</i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flyingdreamswine.com/">Flying Dreams Sauvignon Blanc</a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Kevin Fry caught a nice pic of me smiling in my element- cooking away</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</tbody></table>I'm looking forward to many more secret supper clubs. Even though the next dinner will be at a new location, it only makes it that much more exciting. I started a<a href="http://the-vineyard-table.com/Blog.aspx"> blog on the Vineyard Table</a> website to document my search, but I haven't gotten too far on the blog itself. My time these days is spent physically searching and calling on new spaces, organizing Elsom Cellar details, catering and just recently, packing up the Vineyard Table. I know we will do a couple supper clubs at Elsom Cellars winery in the interim: can't you just see it the Vineyard Table lit by candles with wine barrels stained with dripping juice as a backdrop? Yes, I think it's going to be a delicious experiment.<br />
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Want to be a part of it? Stay tuned for details! Or email me!<br />
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All Photos by Kevin Fry: <a href="http://www.kevinfry.com/">www.kevinfry.com</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-14888224147160390512010-11-02T00:05:00.000-07:002010-11-03T07:48:57.760-07:00A little inspiration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></div>There is something so incredibly mysterious and gritty about this image. I instantly think it must belong in a hidden kitchen in Japan, accessed only after crossing several bridges and winding through narrow, shadowed alleys...no reason this image should conjure up scenes from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/">Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon</a>, but why does my mind go there? <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From the book <a href="http://remodelista.com/posts/required-reading-japanese-kitchen-knives-">Japanese Kitchen Knives</a><br />
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</tbody></table>It seems almost redundant to say that I have learned a tremendous amount about myself this year. I've lived through a mini life crisis at 32, okay who am I kidding, it's been a<i> major</i> life crisis and it's not over yet. Death happens, cancer happens, jobs come and go and life goes on. And so should I. Being unemployed and searching for several months can be a great thing- at least that is what I hear. I on the other hand make a horrible unemployed person, just ask my husband, my family or any of my very close friends. I'm the kind of person who likes having multiple jobs. "I relax in other ways," I tell people when they ask why I can't sit still. I love being busy.<br />
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Thank goodness for change and opportunity. Recently, as in four months ago, I reconnected with <a href="http://elsomcellars.com/about.php">Jody Elsom</a> of <a href="http://elsomcellars.com/">Elsom Cellars</a> and the <a href="http://the-vineyard-table.com/default.aspx">Vineyard Table</a>. Jody is an amazing woman winemaker who specializes in small-batch, handcrafted red wines. Her specialties are cab and malbec. She recently got an 89 for her peppery, leathery 2007 malbec! It is completely deserved and I can only imagine what that feels like!<br />
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So, a while back, Jody informed me that the Vineyard Table has to be relocated by December because of the viaduct tunnel project, and would I want to take the project on. Not just finding the new space, but helping to re-build it. Oy! So, I am taking the plunge! I am taking over all the events at the Vineyard Table and Elsom Cellars Tasting room private events <i>and</i> the new Vineyard Table- where ever that will be. The hunt for the new space is proving to be an entire job in itself. (an entire post on that is in draft form to be posted soon). Let's just say, I'm learning the commercial broker game, the costs of this kind of project and am now able to tell you how much per square foot every Seattle neighborhood commercial space is going for. <br />
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I recently went to <a href="http://www.marjorierestaurant.com/">Marjorie</a> for dinner with a really good friend of mine, chef Kristen Shumacher and immediately fell in love with the use of kitchen space. It was open, homey and so inspiring. The cozy and unpretentious <i>feel</i> is exactly to how I would want the new Vineyard Table kitchen to be like. I also love the feel of the kitchen at the new <a href="http://www.sitkaandspruce.com/">Sitka and Spruce</a>, <a href="http://thewalrusbar.com/TWB/home.html">Walrus and the Carpenter</a>, <a href="http://remodelista.com/posts/steal-this-look-made-kitchen-in-new-york">this number</a> or even this sexy new place that I can't wait to visit: the <a href="http://www.bookbinderyrestaurant.com/">Book Bindery</a> ... The exact opposite of granite counters and glitzy chandeliers. <br />
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</tbody></table>Obviously, there is a lot that needs to happen between now and official. Jody and I have decided to move the Vineyard Table into storage while we find the right "place." Wouldn't a garden be lovely? Should we move Eastside or Westside? oh the decisions. All I know is that life is short. Someone recently asked me what I really love in life? And I thought for a moment, and said, "I love giving people original experiences through good food." At the end of the day do I want to be exhausted because of excel spread sheets or because I made too many appetizers?<br />
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I want to be tired from this: <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of several different varieties of heirloom peppers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristen hunting for strawberries</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St. Jude albacore tuna, avocado aioli, grilled pineapple salsa on rice crackers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jubilee Farm Asian greens, soft-boiled duck egg, fennel salted crouton, shaved pecorino, sherry vinaigrette</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sweet corn soup, Dungeness crab, tarragon oil</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crispy pork belly</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristen of<a href="http://heirloomchef.blogspot.com/2010/10/jubilee-farms-dinner.html"> Heirloom</a> adds the finishing sauce to the pork belly</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crispy pork belly, farro risotto, Jubilee farms roasted beets and sauteed chard</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jubilee Farm's strawberry, blackberry and hazelnut crisp with cinnamon scented marscapone </td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You know what is exciting? Holding an unread novel in your hands and knowing that you have an adventure awaiting you. That is finally what I am recognizing after several long months of living through some heavy stuff. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I am not publishing a novel, but I have been living like I am reading from a script written by someone else. I'm making amends with this passed year- a passed script that was written for me and am eagerly awaiting the new author of 2011. Fortunately I was given the first chapter to review and I like what I am reading.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">It's been five months since my dad passed away and I feel like an entirely different person. It's not just because he isn't in my life any more and the pain that comes with that, it's in addition to everything else that has happened this year. Moving, new job, new job, new job. I realize that the job doesn't make the person, but what happens when you make the job? What happens then? Who makes the person then?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">A little bit of inspiration is in order. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6388862803422145824.post-6951237739284277022010-08-24T10:52:00.000-07:002010-08-24T11:06:39.559-07:00Moving on<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRcb0xC-DPOLyU_jEvyizRqTMqnNpK4btZt6tITJ1zc9mKeDB1BzcYPw5vJlbJLylPlvbxF8l-ZFQtcReCe1YjhFpIvYYIbSlFz1eSsdHmGTyyHzbEEXSfeQixVTPgDH5rpdMJRHybTqw/s1600/IMG_7515%5B1%5D" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRcb0xC-DPOLyU_jEvyizRqTMqnNpK4btZt6tITJ1zc9mKeDB1BzcYPw5vJlbJLylPlvbxF8l-ZFQtcReCe1YjhFpIvYYIbSlFz1eSsdHmGTyyHzbEEXSfeQixVTPgDH5rpdMJRHybTqw/s400/IMG_7515%5B1%5D" width="400" /></a></div>Been on the road catering with the <a href="http://www.skilletstreetfood.com/">Skillet</a> crew for a couple days. Tons of projects in the works and it feels great to be in a creative space. Tons of stories to share, including new characters that I have met along the way. I think it could be a couple days before I am back on the blog as I am working on opening up an event space with <a href="http://elsomcellars.com/">Elsom Cellars</a> and volunteering for the <a href="http://www.foodista.com/ifbc2010/">International Food Bloggers Conference</a> this weekend. I was also recently asked to be on the board of <a href="http://slowfoodseattle.wordpress.com/">Slow Food Seattle</a>, and I am pretty tickled pink about it all.<br />
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