Mr.S the end of the year holiday special: Baked Oysters and Shrimp luoie Salad

Mr.S has a whole week off from work (how luck!!) so I have him to cook dinner for me. He decided to make Shrimp Luoie Salad and Hama Hamas Oyster from Metropolitan Market.



We found this Lemonaise at the store to substitute mayonnaise in the recipe. Lemonaise uses canola oil instead of soy bean oil (soy bean oil is used almost in every processed product in America!) It tasted just like normal mayonnaise. Lemonaise has the same amount of total fat and calories (100kcal) than normal mayonnaise, but I don’t see chemical on the ingredient list. We used the light version, and only have 40 calories per serving.

Ingredients
*1 cup lemonaise light
*1/4 cup Chili sauce
*1/4 cup 1% milk
*1/4 cup green onion, diced
*1/3 cup green pepper, diced
*1 cup cooked shrimpmeat
*Salad lettuce

Serve 4.

Direction
1) Prepare the dressing by whisking together lemonaise, chili sauce and milk. Combine green pepper and green onion with dressing. Mix in cooked shrimp.
2) Pour shrimp luoie dressing on lettuce. Serve chilled

Asparagus and Turkey Carbonara

I have bought some fresh farm eggs from the store to make cookies but didn't get to use them all, so I thought of making carbonara. Making carbonara is so easy, it gives you the creamy kind of texture, but in a healthier way. Also, it is nice to finish the cooked frozen turkey meat from Thanksgiving that sitting in my freezer. You can use chicken instead of turkey in this recipe.


Ingredients
* 8 ounces uncooked whole wheat spaghetti
* 2 cups (1-inch) slices asparagus (about 3/4 pound)
* 2 eggs
* 1/2 cup skim milk
* 2 teaspoons olive oil
* 1/2 cup chopped onion
* 1/4 cup dry white wine
* 2 cups chopped skinless, boneless turkey meat
* 1/2 cup (2 ounces) grated fresh Parmesan cheese
* 3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
* 3/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper


Preparation
1) Cook pasta in boiling water 10 minutes or until al dente; add asparagus during final 2 minutes of cooking. Drain pasta mixture in a colander over a bowl, reserving 1/3 cup cooking liquid. Combine reserved cooking liquid, eggs, and milk, stirring with a whisk.

2) Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add oil and onion to pan; sauté 2 minutes. Add white wine; cook 1 minute. Add pasta; stir to combine. Remove from heat; stir in milk mixture, turkey, and cheese. Place pan over medium heat, and cook 4 minutes or until slightly thick, stirring frequently. Remove from heat; stir in parsley, salt, and pepper. Serve immediately.

Potato Pancake

Merry Christmas to you all!

This morning, I volunteered to make a surprise breakfast for Mr.S and his family. Potato pancakes are my all time favorite and it is very easy to make.

Ingredients
1 pound potato
1 small onion
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
oil

Directions
1) Use a food processor, shred potato and onion. Use paper towels to pat them to really dry.
2) In a large bowl, whisk egg, flour, salt and pepper. Then add in potato mixture, mix well.
3) Heat oil in a large skillet, over medium heat. In batches, drop 1 tablespoonfuls of the packed potato mixture into the skillet. Press to flatten. Cook about 2-3 minutes on each side, until browned and crisp. Drain on paper towels.

Thanksgiving leftover special II…. Thanksgiving-all-over-again turkey sandwich

Mr. S loves Thanksgiving meals and he can have them all the time without getting bored. But for me, one time is enough.  I opened the refrigerator tonight and found boxes and boxes of Thanksgiving leftovers.  So I decided to have a make over of the Thanksgiving meal.  You can basically add anything that you have in the sandwich, so you can soon finish all the leftovers.



Ingredients
2 slices whole wheat bread
Pureed sweet potato
Cranberry sauce
1 leaf lettuce
Half tomato, sliced
Handful of Grandma’s sauerkraut
Turkey breast, sliced

Directions
1) Toast the bread. On first slice of bread, spread a thin layer of pureed sweet potato.  On the second slice of bread, spread a thin layer of cranberry sauce.
2) Put the slice of bread with pureed sweet potato at the bottom, start stacking the sandwich with the rest of the ingredients, then top with the slice of bread with cranberry sauce.
3) Cut the sandwich into half and enjoy!

Thanksgiving left over special- Mini grass-fed Hamburger

Do you have your dinner rolls left over from Thanksgiving? and do you run out of freezer space to put the dinner rolls in so you will need to eat them immediately but haven’t have a chance to put into your meal planning?





We got 2 bags of whole wheat dinner rolls from Macarina, our local bakery, but only finished 1 bag.  We have so much left over, so the bag of bread was just sitting in the kitchen getting dry.  Since I got a lot of grass-fed beef right before Thanksgiving, I decided to make mini hamburgers. It is good portion control and we can enjoy the grass-fed goodness.

Ingredients:
8 Dinner rolls
1 pound ground beef
½ cup bread crumbs
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
Salt and pepper
4 Provolone cheese slices
2 cup of spring mix salad vegetables
Ketchup


Directions
1) Preheat oven to 400F
2) Cut the dinner rolls into half and toast it in to oven until slightly brown. Set aside.
3) In a large bowl, mix ground beef, bread crumbs, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper together. Shape ground beef into 8 patties.
4) Bake patties for 10 minutes until patties internal temperature reach 160F.
5) Serve burgers in dinner rolls and top burgers with cheese, vegetables and ketchup.

Apple Strudel

Mr.S has been asking me to make apple strudel since the first time we watched Inglorious Bastards. Since it is Thanksgiving today and organic Granny Smith apples are on sale at Metropolitan Market, I have decided it is time to try out this recipe!


Ingredients
Apple Strudel:
1/4 cup bourbon or apple juice
1/2 cup golden raisins
2 to 3 Granny Smith apples (about 1 pound), peeled, cored, halved, and thinly sliced
1/2 lemon, juiced
1 tablespoon lemon zest, finely chopped
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, plus more for sprinkling
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup crushed shortbread cookies
1/4 cup chopped pecans
2 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces
2 sheets phyllo dough from 1 pound package of frozen dough, defrost.
2 tablespoons butter, melted, for brushing phyllo sheets, plus more if needed
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
Confectioners' sugar

Glaze:
2 cups confectioners' sugar
3 1/2 tablespoons milk

For the Strudel:
Directions
1) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2) In a small bowl, pour the bourbon or apple juice over the raisins and microwave on high for 45 seconds. Let sit for 15 minutes.
3) Combine the raisins, apples, lemon juice, lemon zest, cinnamon, brown sugar, cookie crumbs, pecans, and butter in a large bowl.
4) Remove the phyllo dough from the box, unfold, and cover with a damp towel. Divide phyllo dough into 6. Roll or pat out each phyllo dough sides and edges. Repeat with the remaining sheets.
5) Place the apple mixture in middle of the 1 phyllo, being sure to leave a 1/2 inch border. Place another phyllo on top of the filling and gently lift the sides and edges of the bottom phyllo then combine with the top phyllo. Transfer to the prepared baking sheet. Brush the top with melted butter and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
6)Bake for 30 minutes, until golden brown. Pour over the glaze and sprinkle with cinnamon and confectioners' sugar.

For the Glaze:
Mix ingredients thoroughly.

Spaghetti and grass-fed meatballs

I have been waited for a very long time for today!!! Finally the cow that we bought was butchered the beginning of the month and today is the day to pick up the grass-fed, organic beef from the butcher. Especial thanks to CC for organizing this with me so we can share this cow with 16 friends.  So tonight's dinner, I immediately thaw out the ground beef to make meatballs :).

Ingredients

• 1 pound spaghetti
• Salt, for pasta water

Meatballs:

• 1 1/2 pound ground beef
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tablespoon oregano
• 1 tablespoon basil
• 1 tablespoon parsley
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• Salt and pepper

Sauce:

• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed or chopped
• 1 small onion, finely chopped
• 1 cup beef stock
• 1 (28-ounce) can crushed tomatoes
• A handful chopped flat-leaf parsley
• 10 leaves fresh basil leaves, torn or thinly sliced
• Grated cheese, such as Parmigiano-Reggiano or Romano

Directions

1) Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
2) Place a large pot of water on to boil for spaghetti. When it boils, add salt and pasta and cook to al dente.
3) Mix beef and Worcestershire, herbs, garlic, salt and pepper. Roll meat into 1 1/2 inch medium-sized meatballs and place on nonstick cookie sheet or a cookie sheet greased with extra-virgin olive oil. Bake balls 10 to 12 minutes, until no longer pink.
4) Heat a deep skillet or medium pot over moderate heat. Add oil, crushed pepper, garlic and finely chopped onion. Saute 5 to 7 minutes, until onion bits are soft. Add beef stock, crushed tomatoes, and herbs. Bring to a simmer and cook for about 10 minutes.
5) Toss hot, drained pasta with a few ladles of the sauce and grated cheese. Turn meatballs in remaining sauce. Place pasta on dinner plates and top with meatballs and sauce and extra grated cheese.

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Crossing the Red Sea to enter Jordan……The most adventurous experience in my life

Nuewiba (Egypt) --> Aqaba (Jordan)

After spending the morning at the beach resort, we headed to the ferry terminal to board a ferry to cross the Gulf of Aqaba to Jordan. There is only one daily ferry from Nuweiba to Aqaba. This ferry has no set schedule and is extremely erratic, as it waits in Jordan until it is full and then makes the crossing to Egypt to collect passengers and return to Jordan.

When our bus arrived to the terminal, we hundreds of people lined up to take the ferry. Fortunately, our guide had us to stay in the tour bus until the gate was opened to tourists, and then we were rushed into the terminal. After we got into the terminal, we went through the customs and started to wait for the ferry. We waited in an area, with a big sign with red Arabic writings. I assumed the sign said this area is for tourist because all the locals were separated from us.

Our guide left us after a while. He told terminal personnel to let us know when it is time to get on the ferry then he left us to make the journey to Jordan alone. So we waited, in the past, the waiting time could last 4 to 8 hours. One time a group waited for 12 hours!!! After 2 hours of waiting, they started to let people to get on the ferry. All the tourists from the red sign area took a bus with only around 10 seats and an open area in the middle for people to put their luggage. Most of us stood the whole way before we were dropped off closer to the boat.


After getting off the bus, we started to line up with the local people, and the late comers started to line up in front of us. It was strange but we waited, until someone from the ferry directed all the foreigners to bypass the crowd and enter the ferry. We left our luggage at the bottom of the ferry, which was scary because that was all of our possessions at the time, and then we entered the air-conditioned interior.




A ferry employee gathered all of our passports and then took them to the customs official on the ferry. So there we were, no passports, no luggage, on a ferry to Jordan. We didn’t see our passports until we got into Jordon and were about to leave the ferry terminal. While we were waiting in the ferry to get to Jordon, there was a line of local travellers waiting to get through customs on the ferry. The line was so long that not all the travellers got through the line when we landed in Jordon.

After getting off the ferry, we got our passports and met our Jordanian guide. We were all relieved. It had been an eventful day for all of us!


We had dinner at a Jordanian shwarma place. Their shwarma is different from the Egyptian style. They use a wrap that looks a lot like a crepe or a tortilla, and then stuffed it with meat, vegetables and French fries!

The Monastery of St. Catherine’s and Red Sea

The Monastery of St. Catherine’s -> Nuewiba (Red Sea)

We started our day early to visit the Monastery of St Catherine’s, the smallest diocese and oldest Christian monastery still in use in the world, which we passed by yesterday when we hiked up Mount Sinai. Dress code was stricter in the Monastery, which women and men should wear long pants. Since they only open around 3 hours a day for tourists, so it was very crowded when we were there at 9am.

Before talking about the experience of going through the monastery, here is a little history lesson. According to the travel book and our guide, St. Catherine’s church was named after Saint Catherine in the 10th century. Saint Catherine was born in AD 294 and was from a noble family in Alexandria, was a Christian convert who was martyred in the early 4th century for refusing to renounce her faith. She herself converted hundreds of people to Christianity and accused Emperor Maxentius of idolatry. When he tried to have her broken it was claimed that she shattered the spiked (Catherine) wheel by touching it, so Maxentius resorted to having her beheaded in Alexandria. After her execution her body vanished and according to legend was transported by angels to the top of Egypt’s highest mountain, now named after her. Three centuries later this body was discovered, brought down from the mountain and placed in a golden casket in the church where it remains to this day.


After entering to the monastery, we passed by the Moses’ Well, which was the main water source of the monastery. Then we arrived at St. Catherine’s Church, it was built between AD 542 and 551. This church was richly decorated with hanging oil lanterns, mosaic, icons, and swinging incense burners by Greek monks. It has 12 enormous pillars, each a single piece of granite, was free-standing and decorated with beautiful icons representing the saints that are venerated in each of the 12 months of the year.


Stepping out from the church, you would see the burning bush. According to the Bible, God spoke to Moses through the burning bush. Our guide said people tried to break that bush into pieces and grew in different countries, and St. Catherine’s is the only place they can grow out the burning bush. The picture attached might be too hard to see the color of the bush, but the top half was green and the bottom half was brown, like burnt color.


Bell Tower was built in 1871, the tower houses nine bells donated by Tsar Alexander II of Russia. They are only rung on religious festivals.


We then took a 2 hours bus ride to our beach getaway near Nuewiba for a night of relaxation. Mr. S and I immediately changed to our swimming gear to enjoy some time in the Red Sea. We did snorkeling, and swam around the sea at the resort that we stayed at. It is our most relaxing time during the whole trip. At night, we have our last dinner with our Egyptian tour guide because we will be heading to Jordan tomorrow!

Egyptian food 2

The menu of Egyptian McDonalds is slightly different from the American's. They have this McArabia chicken on their menu. Also they have Big Mac fish,which is Big Mac with fish in it instead of hamburger meat.

We have been spoiled by the fresh fruit juice in Egypt. The juice store has pomegranate,orange, mangos and sugar cane juice. Its only around 4LE =<$1 per glass.

We went to this touristy restaurant and they served individual portion of chicken or lamb kebabs.

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Egyptian food

Egyptian food are very high in carbohydrates and low in fiber. Usually the fiber source is from legumes or fruits.

Kosary.... is the traditional Egyptian food. This food is everwhere and a lot of times restaurants or street vedors would only sell Kosary. Kosary mixed with rice, macaroni, black lentils, fried onions and tomato sauce. Some local like to put hot sauce and vinegar to eat with.



Hamam....pigeon, usually stuff with rice and spices. So far we have only found this dish in nicer restaurants.

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The Pyramid of Giza

Pyramid of Giza -> Egypt Museum -> Overnight train ride to Aswan (12 hours)


After 5 days of adventures to Amsterdam, Alexandria and Cairo by ourselves, we finally joined our tour group today to visit the Pyramid of Giza. It was my biggest pleasure to see the only one left of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. They are so huge that we can see the Pyramids from a far distance away. Pyramid of Khufu is the biggest pyramid of all and was built for King Khufu in 2589-2566BC. This pyramid only allows 100 people to go inside every day to better preserve the monument. The small 2 are Pyramid of Khafre (Khufu’s son) and the pyramid of Mycerinus( Khufu successor). Mr.S and I are very fortunate to be able to go inside the Pyramid of Khafre.

I was a little nervous before going inside the Pyramid because I was worried the slope would be too steep to walk or too dark to see. Apparently, when the pyramids are built, they built in passage ways for workers to go in and out of the pyramid. The surfaces of each stones are so smooth that every single rock is tight sealed. After walking down of the passage way for around 10 minutes, we went up for around 10 minutes. The air was getting stuffy and finally we reached the King’s Chamber. The King Chamber is a small room, with a small air shaft on the top of one of the walls. Lay on one side of the room is the sarcophagus. It was nothing much to see in the chamber, but it was amazing to be able to go inside of a pyramid.


After visiting the pyramids, we moved onto see the Sphinx. It was a shame that the Sphinx was fenced so we are unable to go closer but it is still a very incredible to see the Sphinx still exist since it is built of soft sandstone.



Later the day, we visited the Egyptian museum. This museum was built in 1863 and was very different from other museums because it seemed like the Pharaonic antiquities that they have are so much that they run out of space to put them. The most amazing part of the museum is the Mummy room and King Tutankhamun’s collections. The mummy room cost US$20 more to go in, but it definitely worth it. You can see some of the most famous pharaoh mummies including Ramses II. For King Tut’s collections, the tomb was found intact and the only one in the world was saved from tomb robbers. Looking at the gold mask of Tutankhamen, its like looking at the King himself. They also displayed the gold coffins of King Tut. Our tour guide said just days before our tour started, the archeologist suggested King Tut probably wasn’t murdered at age 19, instead probably he died due to generation of incest within his ancestry.

After a long day of seeing some of the most amazing things in the world, we took an over night train to head down to Aswan.

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Cairo- Islamic & Coptic Cairo

Before doing all the must do pyramid tour, we continued our trip with our city sightseeing.

We started our day early to go to the Citadel which included Mosque of Mohammad Ali Pasha. The mosque was started building in 1824 by Mohammad Ali, viceroy of Egypt and finished in 1857. The architecture was influenced by the Ottoman mosques in Istanbul.

After the Citadel, we went the the Mosques of Sultan Hassan. It is one of the largest Mosques in The world. It was said that the Sultan ordered the hand of the architect to be cut off, in order that the building would remain unique.

Our next stop was Gayer-Anderson house. Major Robert Gayer-Anderson, a retired British doctor restored and refurished the houses with Ottoman-era furniture and fitting in 1934. At the house you can also see his collections of Egyptian antiques.

We continued to head south to go to Coptic area of Cairo. We visited the Coptic museum, which was found in 1908 to preserve Coptic artefacts and Egypt's Christian heritage against the acquisitive activities of local and foreign collectors. We also visited church of St. George and the Hanging church.

Our last stop of the day is the Nilometer, it was originally built in The ninth century BC. It was once used to measure the water level of the Nile.

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Picture of the day in Cairo

A pita bread delivery man with a bike in downtown Cairo......awesome.

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Another kind of experience

I have been in Egypt for 3 days and these are some of my experiences:

1) People are generally nice in Egypt. When the cab driver didn't know where we whated to go someone who could speak some English would come and help. Or when they see you are a tourist they will say 'Hello' or 'Welcome'. But ofcourse, many just want to sell something to you. Which is my second point.....

2) People here always ask for $$. Well, I guess its the culture and its one of their sources of income. But when we ask for directions from the tourist police and they ask us for tip... or when we go to mosques the person that put our shoes away would ask for tips..... or the street vendor already over charging us on the pomegranate juice for 7LE and when we paid 10LE they will keep the change....or when we had a nice dinner, the restaurant already charged for 12% service fee plus 10% tax and they also want to keep the change.

3) Feral cats everywhere. I bet cat lovers would want to adopt all these kitties and take them home. Where ever you go you will see them. Especially when you eat somewhere with outside seatings, the kitties will stare at you when you eat.

5) Its impossible to not to get lost in Cairo. I might need to blame the travel books I got,because the 2 travel books that we have would spell the street name differently from the real street. Or the street name is written in Arabic. The streets not line up like Bellevue, you can imagine its like Seattle streets without street names and every store looks the same. There are mosques everywhere so its hard to find a good landmark.

6) We haven't gotten sick from eating street vendor food yet. I guess we can save our cipro for later.

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Cairo........City of mixed culture.

Cairo is a city that is both modern and ancient, Christian and Muslim, and absolutely full of art.

Cairo is split into different parts including Islamic Cairo, old Cairo, downtown Cairo, Coptic Cairo, Giza, and several other small towns.

We started off to explorering Islamic Cairo. It is a historic area that contains the greatest concentration of medieval Islamic monuments to be found anywhere.

Visiting mosques is a must in Islamic Cairo. We visited the Al-Ghouri Complex, and had a chance to climb up the minaret to see the whole city. Then we visited Al-Azhar Mosque which was founded in A.D. 970. We then walked around Khan Al-Khalili market. You can find all the Egyptian souvenirs you need there. We walked the length of the old medieval walled city.

We relaxed at Al-Azhar park, which was once a dump and was transformed into the biggest park in Egypt.

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Alexandria

After a long journey we arrived at Alexandria which has a lot of fasinating history behind it. This town named after Alexandrer the Great was concoured by the Romans, British, French, Ottomans, etc, so the city is a melting pot of different culture.

We were welcomed with a drink at the hotel made with dried petals of the red hibiscus. Fruit juice stands were everywhere and you can purchase a fruit drink made with pomegranate, mango or mango for 7LE (about $1.25).

Stepping out from the Misr station you can see the Roman Amphitheather, it was once buried and now more pieces are discovered including the Roman bath, and a villa.

At the north end of Alexandria you can find Qaitbay Citadel. It is believed to be made from the stone of the Lighthouse of Pharos (one of the seven wonders).

It was a shame that we cannot bring our camera to a lot of the sites and museums. We visited the Catacombs, Jewellery museum, and the Alexandria National museum.

At the Catacomb, it is amazing to see the carvings on the tombs and painting on the walls from almost 2 thousand of years ago. They were a strang mix of Egyptian and Roman mythalogy.

The Jewellery museum is converted from King Farouk palace. The decorations inside looks European and one of the walls painted with the story of Odyssey. The jewelleries were collected from the time of Mohammed Ali through the last King of Egypt.

At the National museum I got to learn a lot of Egyptian history including the obelist standing in New York city was once put in the Ceasarion. And it was my first time to see a mummy in real life.

A lot of local taxi drivers or private cars offer rental and pay per hour. Usually you bargin the price before you get on the taxi. We didn't rent a car but our cab driver did drove us around when we visited the Montazah Gardens. It once was a vacation home for the Kings during summer. Now its used as the president's house. The cab drivers also stopped at the dates garden and we tried some fresh dates. It tasted like dry dates but it was harder, the skin was kind of bitter and the after taste was refreshing.

If you know me well, you know that I do not like beans. For this trip I have practised to eating more beans and lamb. We have tried fuul which is beans in pita bread. Also, we tried sharama, and a food that we don't know what it is called but they put beans, peas, little pasta, rice, fried onion and a sauce in a bowl then mix to eat.

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The longest day of my life

Saturday morning we flew from Seattle to Amsterdam, stayed for 13 hours then flew to Cairo at 1am. We took a cab from the airport to what was supposed to be a really nice train station but turned out to be in the middle of remodeling construction. It didn't even have a place to sit. Then we took a three hour train to the ancient city of Alexandria. We are staying at a 100 year old palace which was converted into hotel.

The longest day ever!

Now is sleeping time :)

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Amsterdam......Sex, drugs and high calorie food.

Amsterdam is a very quite city on a Sunday morning. We saw few people walking around the street not until after 1-2pm. Weather here is just like Seattle, cool and rainy. We started off our trip with a visit the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh museum. I fell in love with one of the Van Gogh's painting called the Almond Blossom which he painted as a gift to his new born nephew.





If you get tired walking around town you can hire the bicycle taxi . Most of the locals bike around town without wearing biking outfits like seattlites commonly do. Across from the museums there was the flower market, where you can buy Tulip bulbs to take home.




All the building are built side by side with no room in between. We also walked around the Red Light district and saw prostitutes standing in front windows winking at you to get your attention.




We also tried fries with mayonaise and they actually tasted pretty good!

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1 hour to take off.... Seattle - Amsterdam - Cairo

Finally, here I am at the Seattle international airport to go on our trip to Egypt and Jordan. We are going to have 5 days on our own in Amsterdam, Alexandria and Cairo before we meet our tour group. I hope to be able to blog through out the trip. So, stay tuned!

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Portland 10.10.10 Marathon/eating trip.

Mr. S and I went down to Portland, Oregon this weekend for my first marathon, which I ran with my friend CC.




When we go there went to the Tin Shed for breakfast. They had self service coffee which was a nice thing to have while you are waiting in line for a table. But, you had go and pour yourself coffee when you are eating.  We ordered the chicken sausage scramble and meat scramble with gravy which both came with potato cakes. The potato cakes were very good and are highly recommend.




Mr. S and CC's husband Dr. C they are big sports and beer fans.  All they want to do is to watch college football and drink beer.  Well, I have to admit traveling around the northwest we have visited several microbreweries. This time we chose Laurelwood Brewing company for dinner since it meets CC and I's choice of organic and natural food/drinks and also meet the boys need for TV and drinking. What a nice compromise!

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