lummi island wine tasting august 25 ’17
Bread this week
Cinnamon Raisin – Made with a nice mix of bread flour and freshly milled whole wheat as well as rolled oats. Some honey for sweetness, a little milk for a tender crumb and loaded with raisins and a healthy dose of cinnamon. This is not a rich sweet bread with a swirl of cinnamon sugar, the cinnamon is mixed in to flavor the entire bread and it is a hearty rustic loaf. Great for breakfast toast, even better for french toast – $5/loaf
Seeded Country Hearth- Also made with a mix of bread flour and some fresh milled whole wheat. Then loaded up with pumpkin, sunflower and poppy seeds. A nice rustic bread that is a great all around loaf – $5/loaf
And for pastry this week:
Kouign Aman – Made with croissant dough layers laminated with a butter and sugar mix. The baking form is then brushed with more butter and sprinkled with more sugar. I don’t make these often, and Di says they are her favorites so get you order in early or they might all be gone! – 2/$5
Wine tasting this weekend
The wine shop will be open the usual hours on Friday and Saturday this week. Since on Friday we will still be making our way home from our Eclipse Trip to Oregon (more on that below), with uncertain arrival time, Friday’s tasting will be conducted under Janice’s buy-share program, which works pretty well, and with which most of you are familiar.
On Saturday we will have our usual five-wine tasting format, though tasting menu will not be selected till Saturday (after we get home!).
Yes, Totality Matters!
After widespread Expectations of Clogged Highways as Countless People made the Pilgrimage to see the Solar Eclipse this past Monday, we were relieved to find the going Quite Easy on our trip to Oregon. We camped at Memaloose State Park on the Oregon side of the Columbia at The Dalles. Nice park, but sandwiched between I-84 on one side and RR tracks along the Columbia side, it was way too noisy for Ulee, kinda freaked him out.
At a wine tasting (of course!) on Sunday afternoon we got a tip from a local and early Monday morning drove to the Warm Springs Reservation, which had just experienced a forest fire a few days before. We found a perfect viewing spot where the firefighters had made camp, complete with sani-cans and handwash stations!
It is now late Thursday night, and limited internet access…to be continued, and hope to,see you all this weekend!
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