My dad and I won this year's Andrews family reunion bocce ball tournament, crushing and destroying opponents with suregeon-accurate precision and ruthless antics. I last won in 1998, so it's been a long time coming for the 2nd hoisting of the glorious trophy which represents the pinnacle of athletics. Actually, I wasn't super into the bocce ball stuff when it started, the weather was so glorious I wanted to be dragged behind a boat on an inner tube instead...
Friday night I left work and headed down to the house outside Allyn, and slept out on the deck, with a nearly full moon lighting the bay. It was warm and summer out. Saturday was a day of hijinks, the aforementioned bocce ball, geoduck hunting (which is muddy and fun and wild), volleyball, cooking, hot tubbing....life is tough.
I did all the cooking this year, which was a first, and I went pretty big:
-Sockeye Salmon with Quilicum beach scallop ceviche
-A small farm pork rib roast (Pork Prime Rib) with roasted apricot-dijon-coriander (seed) bbq sauce
-Perfect potato salad
-White beans with braised fennel and arugula
-Ripe summer tomatoes, pickling cukes and celery salad with a sweet sherry vinaigrette
-Geoduck a la Plancha de Washington, a Spanish affair with chorizo, tomatoes and green onions
(cleaning the geoduck was odd.....)
-Brown sugar poached apricot buckle (I forgot the mint whipped cream I had planned)
And then I spent the night out there again, and it was another fine evening. The place really is fine..... I plan on heading out there again sometime this summer, as it's only an hour away, and it really is underused according to the relatives that own it. So y'alls invited!
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