lummi island wine tasting Feb 14 ’25
Wine Tasting Friday Feb 14 4-6 pm
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
Pan de Cioccolate – A delicious chocolate artisan bread that isn’t an enriched sweet pastry dough with lots of eggs, butter and sugar. Rather this bread is a rich chocolate bread made with a levain, bread flour and fresh milled rye flour, honey for sweetness, vanilla and plenty of dark chocolate. Makes fabulous toast, even better french toast – $5/loaf.
Dried Cherries and Pecans – also made with a levain that is mixed the night before final mixing of the dough using a sourdough starter. The final dough is made with the levain, bread flour and fresh milled whole wheat and then loaded up with dried cherries and toasted pecans. A nice rustic loaf that goes well with meats and cheese –$5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Chocolate Babka Rolls – A sweet pastry dough full of eggs, butter and sugar, rolled and spread with a chocolate filling, rolled up and cut into individual rolls that are placed in baking forms for baking and then brushed with sugar syrup after baking. I’ve heard some people say they hide these to keep them all to themselves. – 2/$5
Island Bakery has developed a rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday the Bakery emails the week’s bread offering to the mailing list. Orders received before 5 pm Tuesday (and not already claimed) will be available for pickup at the wine shop Friday from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. Contact us at least two weeks before your visit to get on the bread list .
This week’s Wine Tasting
Cloudlift chardonnay ’22 Washington $28
Scents of honeysuckle, sweet lemon curd, and pear drift out of the glass, with mouth watering acidity carrying flavors of crisp green apple and pear with a burst of lemon zest on the finish.
Humble Roots Shiraz – Viognier ’20 Australia $18
Delightful blend of 98% Shiraz and 2% Viognier; shows layers of fleshy plum, oak, and blackberry with earthy hints of incense, ash, cocoa, black currant, and pepper.
Chiarlo Barbera d’Asti ’21 Italy $18
Ruby red with violet hue; elegant nose of rich plum and berry with notes of flowers and bark; palate of red cherry and red currants with a savory finish.
Economics of the Heart: Underground Discussions
A lot of us believe that the emerging American civil war is the culmination of decades of deliberate lies from right-wing newspapers, radio, internet, and TV (is there still “tv?”) programming with the single goal of making millions of people believe wholeheartedly in a fake reality. While we can probably trust our local media about local events, our new federal “government” has now abandoned both law and conscience in its apparent mission to create as much pain for as many people as it can. (see last week’s post about the Red Meanies).
One natural outcome of that recent history is that a lot of mainstream media has lost our trust. At the same time, a lot of talented writers and activists have moved their regular columns into backrooms on the web where they get subscribers interested enough in their ideas to pay a modest subscription fee. We are pretty new at this, but here are a few that are consistently informative and thought-provoking as we gear up to protect our democracy.
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