Typically, we blast through Bellingham, Washington, making no more than a coffee and bagel stop downtown to fortify ourselves for either the Canadian border crossing at Peace Arch or the bumper to bumper traffic between Everett and downtown Seattle. Chock full of coffee and carbs, we grip the steering wheel, navigate Interstate 5, and wonder if Bellingham doesn’t warrant a little more time someday.
It’s an only an hour and half away give or take a bit, from our home in Seattle, close enough for a motivated day trip.… continued…
On Common Ground, Chimacum: Here’s to pie made by floury kitchen lasses with broad upper arms. Here’s to sandwiches that look big enough to feed two, to service that’s both cheerful and laconic at the same time. Here’s to pecan pie bites in their own little foil pans and to molasses ginger cookies that use twice, maybe three times the ginger that other weak, less made with real butter cookies have. There’s little that makes me happier than a quality bakery that serves up truly home made treats with good coffee.… continued…
I’m a decent home cook, if I may say so myself, but in order to eat seafood with any kind of sustainability, it’s also good to consider seasonality and going local, too. Salmon and halibut, we’re not seeing a lot of that right now, though thankfully, that will change soon. I miss it.
With local seafood mostly being frozen, I’m going with domestic shrimp instead. I stay away from the Southeast Asian farmed prawns, as much as I love them; shrimp farming practices are destroying the mangroves.… continued…
Country House, Toledo, Washington: “I want to stop at the EAT, you know the one? Plus, for ages, I have wanted to take a picture of that dilapidated ice cream cone thing. You know?”
If you drive up and down I5 in Washington, you know exactly the place I mean. Well, blinded by hunger, we couldn’t figure out how to get to the EAT, plus, tragically, the ice cream cone is gone. We did stop at Country House, though, where I had Breakfast All Day and J had the meatloaf sandwich.… continued…
