I went to Maine for my 4th of July vacation. It was great. It was a long-ish road from Cambridge to Port Clyde, but of course, it's all okay when the company's good. Which it was.
Hurry up, traffic and traffic lights; we're trying to be on vacation here.
When I saw the sky looking like this over the bridge on the edge of Wiscasset, I was pretty sure I was on the right road, heading in the right direction. Away from the city, basically. And especially - away from my office. It was time for a change of scene.
Within about 15 minutes of arriving to the cottage in Maine - and that includes the time it took to unload our stuff from the car - I was browning butter for this banana-strawberry bread I read about on the Joy the Baker blog a few weeks ago.
Around the time I was mixing the browned butter with the yogurt and eggs and whatnot, I thought about adding a light crumb crust to the top before putting those sliced strawberries where they are and popping the whole thing into the oven. And so that's what I did. (3 Tbsp. cold butter, 1/4 c. four, 1/3 c. brown sugar, all crumbled up and sprinkled on top of the bread batter). It made those strawberries deliciously sweet and crunchy. I'd add even more strawberries and crumb crust next time.
Then what? Oh yes, then it was time to eat a lobster roll and fries on the dock at the Dip Net (restaurant)/Port Clyde General Store. And also these delicious mashed potatoes with corn in them, which I sampled from Eliza's plate. And to meet up with Jerome and Lindsay and baby Logan, who drove all the way from Montreal to spend the weekend with us.
Hurry up, traffic and traffic lights; we're trying to be on vacation here.
When I saw the sky looking like this over the bridge on the edge of Wiscasset, I was pretty sure I was on the right road, heading in the right direction. Away from the city, basically. And especially - away from my office. It was time for a change of scene.
Within about 15 minutes of arriving to the cottage in Maine - and that includes the time it took to unload our stuff from the car - I was browning butter for this banana-strawberry bread I read about on the Joy the Baker blog a few weeks ago.
Around the time I was mixing the browned butter with the yogurt and eggs and whatnot, I thought about adding a light crumb crust to the top before putting those sliced strawberries where they are and popping the whole thing into the oven. And so that's what I did. (3 Tbsp. cold butter, 1/4 c. four, 1/3 c. brown sugar, all crumbled up and sprinkled on top of the bread batter). It made those strawberries deliciously sweet and crunchy. I'd add even more strawberries and crumb crust next time.
Then what? Oh yes, then it was time to eat a lobster roll and fries on the dock at the Dip Net (restaurant)/Port Clyde General Store. And also these delicious mashed potatoes with corn in them, which I sampled from Eliza's plate. And to meet up with Jerome and Lindsay and baby Logan, who drove all the way from Montreal to spend the weekend with us.
