Cheese

I love cheese. Really!  That is half the reason we are doing a cheese dinner on Wednesday (Craig loves cheese, too, which is the other half!)  I love hard cheeses, like parmesean, grana padano and some cheddars.  I love medium cheeses like gouda, jack and some of those spanish sheep milk cheeses that I can't ever remember the name. I love soft cheeses like brie, cambazola, and any triple cream! What I love more than anything, though, is goat cheese.  Goat cheese has that lovely bite and what a texture-especially fresh goat cheese.  Feed me goat cheese, good chewy bread, yummy. fresh, august tomatoes and red wine and I would be happy forever! 

I went to a kind of heaven yesterday.  The American Cheese Society had their voting for the best cheeses in the nation and all the hoopla is this weekend.  However, yesterday, the cheese that was left over after the judges tasted them, went for sale for an invite-only audience of retailers and restaurants. We were lucky enough to be invited (thanks Bob at Slow Foods) and went into the cooler.  There were racks and racks of cheese.  Some cheese was in a half wheel, others were in smaller sections.  They were all $3 a pound-which is a bargain if you think about it.  We bought some goat cheese (for me, really) and then a couple other cheeses that were interesting. I haven't tasted them all, but I am excited to try them!

I go on another cheese adventure on Sunday where there will be another cheese sale at Kendall College and I am volunteering this time.  It should be interesting to meet all the people and hopefully talk to some of the cheese purveyors themselves.  I'll let you know if anything interesting happens.

Liz

I know!

So, we started this and then, lo and behold, I (liz) went out of town. I am up in the Cascade mountains at a cabin along the Wenatchee River. It is beautiful, really! The trees, the fresh air, the mountains that jutt right up into the sky...gorgeous! I am here with my parents and my dad's entire side of the family-his siblings and their respective broods. We are all up here for our reunion we have every 2 years and, because we own a restaurant, I am here with the girls and Craig is at home working! Really these family reunions are great-everyone gets along, for the most part and we all cook dinner at least one night for everyone else and we all drink too much fairly regularly. TOday was tubing down the Wenatchee and tomorrow there will be a crew that plays golf and another that will go hiking (I haven't decided what to do yet). This reunion there are so many little kids-which is pretty cool. My girls end up entertaining them a great deal since they are 13 and 16 and both are super talented at amusing little people. So the reunions are fun and that is what I am doing while Craig is working, working, working. If you go to the restaurant this week, give him an extra smile. :)

Liz

first one!

So, we decided that people might like to learn a bit more about us, our restaurant and what we are doing, so we created a blog.  Both Craig and Liz will be contributing randomly when the urge hits us, when we have a funny, sad or frustrating story, or when we just want to vent.  Please enjoy :)