It’s National Ice Cream month. (Wait, isn’t that EVERY month? If not, it should be!). It’s also National Picnic month. Because we all like pic-a-nics with our favorite bear, Yogi, right? Let’s add in National Grilling month, because grilling, picnics, and ice cream definitely go together!
It has Independence Day for the U.S., and Canada Day for our friends up north for the majority of the North American continent to celebrate. Which means lots of , so please make sure your and are safe on those holidays! You don’t want them to beat feet when they get scared at the loud booms.
It’s a good month for all of our gardens, farmers markets, and CSAs to really begin giving us their summer’s bounty, at least for those of us who don’t have year-round availability (I’m waiting on local corn and peaches myself, but will have to wait just a little while longer.)
Carmel/Monterey has a lot of restaurants but many of them turn out to be mediocre touristy places. One of the exceptions for us was always Passionfish https://www.passionfish.net/ in Pacific Grove which is well known for their excellent cooking of sustainably fish as well as a great and affordable wine list. We haven’t been to Passionfish for 10+ years but this visit was as good as we remembered them. We heard that there will be a change in ownership but all FOH and BOH will stay - so let’s hope that Passionfish will continue to be a special restaurant
We’re happily tucked into our airport hotel room after our final meal in Berlin. We had an excellent connection to the restaurant from the boonz, and the absolute torrent we drove through in the cab to the hotel let off just in time
(grilled eggplant with yogurt) for our app — a ridiculously generous portion we finished nonetheless with the ‘assistance’ of crispy, fluffy charcoal-grilled pita bread,
CCE
(Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)
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Made a big ol’ mess of pork Lo Mein (pork tenderloins needed used). The platter is 18x14 inches, so, too much food for 3 people and lots left over.
I took the diffuser off one of my big stove burners and managed to get a bit of oil vapor flames in the wok (just like 1-2 seconds each, not several seconds like you see with real wok burners) while doing the meat and some of the veggies.
Some food pleasures are worth a few burns / minor pains, e.g. pizza straight out of the oven (heat blisters on the roof of my mouth; burnt tongue), spicy or rich foods (the aftermath. oh, the aftermath)… sometimes you just have to make the call
They even taste good! There used to be a great little local paper that served the area where our cabin is, called The Phoenicia Times. It contained a column written by someone named Violet (I forget her last time) about foraging. From this, I learned to eat these wildflowers.
Son and his GF made an early dinner for us then bolted for a Nationals game. Grilled hot dog and (bagged) Caesar salad with leftover chicken cutlet on top. Ok food, great company!
and 
are safe on those holidays! You don’t want them to beat feet 
when they get scared at the loud booms.
