So during my time away from school and blogging, I spent a couple of days at the Oregon Coast with Craig and his parents, and a couple of their friends. The tide was low on Wednesday and Thursday of June 15/16, so we spent the mornings digging for razor clams, and the evenings drinking, chatting, cooking, and having fun. I'd never been clam digging before, but am now OBSESSED. It was a lot of fun procuring food for the dinner table, and the fact that my shellfish license had been bought and unused (a whole $7 for residents in Oregon), it was well worth the money. The clams were delicious, and I couldn't wait to go back out...now to just wait for a super low tide!
Craig's dad even bought me a brand new clam gun! And it's blue!! How awesome is that?! Being that I couldn't wait to go back out, Craig and I went to the coast yet again to harvest anything we could...this time, it was mussels. We went out for only one night in Warrenton, OR and stayed at a cute little beach house. It was our friend (and my save the date/invitation designer extraordinaire),
Seyoung's, birthday the day before, and she and her boyfriend let us tag along for the trip. Craig and I harvested mussels on Saturday afternoon, and we all went back to the house to clean them up and make some yummy chowder. I will admit, it was quite a chore, as the house was equipped with wood stove (seriously) to cook on, and an couple of low-heating separate electric coiled cook tops. We probably cooked a total of 6+ hours making that chowder, but it was such a blast! We drank wine, ate cheese, crackers, and chips, chatted, and overall just had a blast. We also made a nice little fire in the backyard and had some smores (which Seyoung had never made before!!!), had more libations, and finally tried our "chowder" at around 1:30am.
We ended up eating the chowder the next day for...brunch? It was a great trip, and I was so happy to be able to do this before rotations started up for me (this week). Thanks, Zach and Seyoung! We had a blast!
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| Phone picture--the chowder with crusty garlic-Parmesan cheese bread! Yum! |
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| From my phone--the mussels all cleaned up:) |
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| Me, being a turd in the kitchen. |
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| Seyoung and I in the kitchen cooking up a storm...and drinking;) |
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| Craig and Seyoung cleaning mussels |
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| Enjoying the smores, beer (from chalices), and the awesome fire. |
Just as a side note, invitations are coming along slowly, but surely. My friend, Seyoung, really is super talented. She's also an awesome writer.
READ/SUBSCRIBE TO HER BLOG!! She does a lot of makeup reviews and writes funny comics:) You can also check out her artwork
here.
