Cozze

"Cozze" from Pomodoro's. I really love seafood, and there's something so good about having something as simple as mussels in white wine, herbs, garlic, and butter with some nice crusty bread. This is just a simple, good dish. The mussels have the slight taste of garlic, and are nice with the touch of butter and white wine, then finished off perfectly with some herbs. I love to dip the crusty bread in the tasty broth for a nice treat. I dig it!

So before my month hiatus, I posted a lot about our kitchen remodel, and I am pleased to say it is now finished. All we are doing now is putting everything back ... dishes, silverware, cooking utensils, etc. I will be taking some "after" pictures once it's a little cleaner, and then writing a big post about the before and after. Overall, I'm pleased!

Until then, stay foody!

Reindeer Sausagelaska.

So, like I said before, I recently went to Fairbanks, Alaska. I had been to Alaska once before, to Anchorage, and one thing I remember very well about it is that the seafood there is outstanding. It's so fresh, it's got to be, right?

I started off the meal with a bowl of seafood chowder. It was good. Alaska is freezing, so the nice, creamy warmth of the soup was quite welcoming. It had a lot of salmon, halibut, and clams in it. Mostly it was just a jazzed up clam chowder, but man, I'm down for that! Especially with some crusty bread, well, it was good.

After that I decided to have the Pump House Steam pot, which had oysters, crab, clams, shrimp, salmon, reindeer sausage, potatoes, and broccoli in a little tomato broth. It was good. I mean, I can't ask for much more then seafood at it's finest - with just a little spritz of lemon. I will say that this dish lacked seasoning. It was just the seafood, which can really be a good or bad thing. 

Overall, I liked it. Though it was good, it wasn't my favorite seafood I've ever had, but at least I got variety. Until next time folks, eat your hearts out!

Sea World Inspired

Hey everyone! So today was the projected completion date of the kitchen, but it came and went. Our garbage disposal is broken, so we had to buy a new one. The faucet for the bar was the wrong size, so we had to pick out a new one. There weren't enough electrical sockets under the sink for the new water heater, so we had to go buy an extension cord, and an extra socket connector. Then, there were broken pipes under the sink so those also had to get replaced. Basically, it's just been problem after problem. All I want is the kitchen to be finished so that I can get in there and get cooking! The kitchen appliances are supposed to go in on Wednesday, so hopefully after that they can wrap it up.

This past Friday I had the chance to go to Sea World with one of my best friends, Meaghan. Besides being a really fun and educational day, it really got us inspired to go eat some seafood. It's ironic, because you'd think after seeing all those animals we wouldn't go eat them, but we did. We ate shark, but the sharks there scared us anyway so no harm no foul, right?

King's Fish House in Corona, California

Meal started off similar to most in the fact there was bread for us. This bread was particularly tasty - a nice, bold sourdough that really hit the spot.

The bread was especially good dipped in a cup of the clam chowder we both got. It was a relatively cold day, and this warmed me up well. It was creamy, warm, and had decent flavor. No match for Sea Salt but still.

After that, we had some fried farm-raised willapa bay oysters. They were alright. My friend really didn't like them, but I thought they were decent. It was an interesting textural experience because you have the crunchiness of the coating, but then the somewhat gooey, slimy-ness of the oysters. It was good with a spritz of lemon, some cocktail and tartar sauce though.

After that we split a plate of wild local tresher shark, corn, and baked potato. The corn was good; buttery, salty, what more can you ask for, ya know. The baked potato was really good because the skin was super crunchy with sea salt in it's deep cracks. It was especially good with a little sour cream and chives on top.

This was my first real experience eating shark (pictured above). Overall, I enjoyed it. It's meaty and seems to lend itself to spices well because it doesn't have an incredibly powerful flavor by itself.  However, I enjoyed it just being grilled with a little bit of lemon.

Overall, pretty good. 

I hope next time I have better news about the kitchen, and I know next time I will have just as good or better food to talk about! Best dishes to all of you out there**

Kayla