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For those of you not familiar with west coast seafood, an annual tradition is the beginning of dungeness crab season, when all the restaurants and Fisherman’s Wharf are buzzing with the arrival of freshly caught crabs just off the coast in the Pacific. In honor of this week, Sam and I decided to make a trek over to the city today to hit up our “municipal crustacean,” as one of the local papers called it. We ended up going to the Stinking Rose, which is a restaurant in North Beach in San Francisco dedicated to garlic. They also are owned by the same people as one of the crab places on the wharf, and serve the same secret recipe of garlic crab. I’m a huge crab fan and have tried many varieties of it over the years, but I think this one might just take the tops. The garlic in the crab, unlike most of their entrees, isn’t really overwhelming, but instead adds to the buttery goodness that is crab. If any of you manage to make a trek out to the Bay Area during the winter anytime, you definitely owe it to yourself to check this stuff out, even if they are a bit on the pricey side.
Otherwise, life has been pretty much the normal routine lately. I’ve been looking into when we’ll be heading back to Tennessee, and I’m afraid this looks like my first year of not being home for Christmas. Right now, the best we can find for tickets home is something like $700, so that’s just not gonna happen. I think my plan is to head that way sometime in early-mid January, if anyone is still going to be around then.
In other news, we had another earthquake yesterday. Pretty nifty, since it was just a small one, but it was enough to give the house a shake. Anyway, it’s getting late now, so I believe it’s off to bed.
Otherwise, life has been pretty much the normal routine lately. I’ve been looking into when we’ll be heading back to Tennessee, and I’m afraid this looks like my first year of not being home for Christmas. Right now, the best we can find for tickets home is something like $700, so that’s just not gonna happen. I think my plan is to head that way sometime in early-mid January, if anyone is still going to be around then.
In other news, we had another earthquake yesterday. Pretty nifty, since it was just a small one, but it was enough to give the house a shake. Anyway, it’s getting late now, so I believe it’s off to bed.