No whales volition endure pictured on this post, but nosotros did direct maintain a beautiful twenty-four hours to leave of absence together with explore today. I'll say to a greater extent than most that inward a minute. First, I direct maintain to say that whale watching e'er reminds us of falling star showers. They are e'er to a greater extent than hype than happening. We didn't genuinely await to run across whatever whales, together with thus nosotros weren't disappointed.
But let's exactly dorsum upwards to our dinner terminal night. Food, glorious food. This was our 4th see to EVOO, together with it is e'er thus much fun. If you lot click on that link dorsum there, it volition direct maintain you lot to the chief spider web page for the restaurant. We were kickoff to arrive, together with they invited us into the kitchen for pictures. That's Chef Bob Negroni photobombing our picture.
I was thankful for this chance to habiliment my favorite ugly Christmas sweater.
If you lot click hither on the Cookbook, you'll honour tons of recipes, including recipes for all the foods nosotros had terminal night. I demand to scream back this for some of the to a greater extent than hard CSA veggies. Here's terminal night's menu:
Each course of pedagogy is paired amongst an appropriate wine. The ravioli was served amongst a dainty white.
They focus on fresh local ingredients, together with explained that the tomato plant sauce for the ravioli was made amongst their "winter tomatoes," pregnant they came from a can. Good-tasting fresh tomatoes are non available at this fourth dimension of the year. They used a canned tomato, but it comes from Italy, where tomatoes are canned when they are ripe together with inward season, together with never forced inward greenhouses. I don't know most that, but I tin tell you lot this sauce was bursting amongst fresh tomato plant flavor. Those are satsuma orangish sections together with fresh pomegranate seeds over an arugula salad.
For this visit, nosotros were seated dorsum further inward the eating theatre together with had to rely on mirrors to run across what was happening. In the epitome below, Bob is demonstrating how he makes fresh ravioli. You tin run across a sail of pasta set out inward forepart of him if you lot facial expression inward the mirror inward the upper left-hand corner.
And I've exclusively tackled fresh ravioli once. Fresh pasta isn't something I've tried to make, together with my i attempt amongst fresh ravioli was made amongst wonton wrappers. Bob explained that i tin alternative upwards sheets of fresh lasagna inward the grocery store (I've genuinely seen them there!), curl them out thinly, together with thus cutting them to brand fresh ravioli. Now I'm gung-ho to give this a try, but it volition most probable direct maintain to hold off until later on side yesteryear side spring. In this side yesteryear side image, he was stuffing the ravioli.
From there, nosotros switched to blood-red vino for the residuum of the evening.
Here, his married adult woman Lenore (also a chef), was plating upwards the duck legs.
Here's what was served up. I haven't eaten much duck, but this was delicious. The peel was thus dainty together with crisp. On the left side is a form of quinoa fritter amongst some other yummy stuff. The slaw at that spot was delicious. I can't fifty-fifty scream back everything that was included. (Here's the link to the recipe.) There's also a serving of cranberries from Oregon.
Next upwards were New York steaks. In the mirror, you lot tin run across Bob searing them inward cast Fe skillets.
In my epitome below, the meat looks to a greater extent than blood-red than it genuinely was. I'm non a fan of rare beef, together with this was cooked to pinkish perfection. On the correct is some fried escarole. It's some other i nosotros teach inward our CSA shares, together with I've e'er treated it to a greater extent than similar lettuce. Fried similar this, it tastes to a greater extent than similar cabbage. It's some other i I'm anxious to attempt again, immediately that I empathize amend how to ready it.
Next up, he made a praline correct inward forepart of us. He explained this commonly would direct maintain hours to set up, but he speeds upwards the procedure yesteryear setting his pan over ice. When it was ready to endure broken apart for serving, he held it upwards for us to see.
While nosotros were waiting for the praline, nosotros went unopen to the room together with briefly introduced ourselves. I mentioned nosotros were at that spot celebrating the kickoff twenty-four hours of the residuum of our lives because Mike had retired the twenty-four hours before. Often, at that spot are birthdays or anniversaries inward the room, but ours was the exclusively celebration terminal night. This is Mike's human face upwards when they lit a candle together with sang "Happy celebration to you..." to the melody of "Happy Birthday."
I couldn't quite teach his human face upwards together with the candle inward the same shot.
And here's the dessert course. So yummy. I don't know most you, but dessert is e'er my favorite.
That was a pumpkin pots de creme there, together with thus the praline included some pumpkin seeds.
Okay...and thus nosotros rolled on home. The RV common is exclusively most 5 minutes from the restaurant, which was nice. We slept good terminal night.
Today nosotros awoke to a beautiful day. What a gift on the Oregon coast inward December, permit me tell you. We decided to attempt our luck whale watching at Ecola State Park. I've linked at that spot to our previous visit, which also includes some other repast at EVOO. We took the Crescent Beach Hike that day, together with at that spot are to a greater extent than pictures together with to a greater extent than information most the park. As for today's adventure, hither are all the ways nosotros could direct maintain died today:
Any of you lot amongst a hear to climb on the cliffs...just teach that notion out of your caput correct now. Also...no disturbing the marine mammals. Sheesh. How many times practise nosotros direct maintain to teach over this?
Okay, thus these pictures weren't that skillful because I was shooting straight into the sun, but it was beautiful standing hither amongst the Sun shining, blueish sky, together with some mist downward nigh the water.
The viewpoint was closed. The recent deluge of rainfall destabilizes the cliffs here, together with thus they don't desire folks wandering out to autumn to their deaths on the rocks below. Instead, nosotros walked downward this curt path, which merely took us to a unlike side of the parking lot.
From there, nosotros could run across the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse. It's quite an engineering feat, together with terms many people their lives during the structure process. It's history is interesting, together with if you lot are a lighthouse fanatic equally I am, you mightiness bask reading most it correct here.
Here, I've zoomed inward for a amend look. It is no longer operational, but wow...what an impressive history.
Looking inward the contrary direction, it was a pretty view.
But wait...what's that I run across at the transcend of the rock?
It's 2 bald eagles! Cool!
There wasn't much else to practise here, together with thus nosotros headed inward together with did some window shopping inward the piddling town of Cannon Beach. We didn't teach within whatever of the shops, together with this beingness the Dominicus earlier Christmas, many were closed anyway. Still, I did direct maintain some pictures of some of the window displays. I knew you'd bask this watercolor:
And I in all likelihood demand this cup, don't you lot think?
There were quite a few of these interesting drinking glass sculptures of breaking waves. This was the exclusively i I could teach without window reflections obscuring it.
This i is for you, Sher:
There weren't whatever blooming things at this fourth dimension of the year, relieve for this blooming rosemary plant.
When nosotros got dorsum to the RV, nosotros establish these 2 sharing the bed similar skillful friends.
And that's all I direct maintain for you lot today. We'll endure heading domicile tomorrow. Depending on when nosotros teach home, together with whether I direct maintain anything to tell you, I mightiness or mightiness non blog. Don't you lot beloved the certainty amongst which I've been making spider web log promises this week? I'm guessing I'll hold off until Tuesday, but don't endure surprised if I write earlier then.