Oyster Blog
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This spring we put on our mad scientist hats and headed into the woods. Our prey: fir needles. Our purpose: jelly. The fir-jelly project was a long time coming. We discovered that fir needles were edible a few years ago,...
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Chef Ron Stainer of the Hog Island Oyster Bar in Napa came up with this smoked oyster recipe in honor of our guest shucking appearance a few weeks back. Think of it as a smoked oyster salad over toast. The pickled...
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1. Oyster Stout 2012 is brewing! 2. Adam gains a pretty impressive title. No, we did not write this ourselves. Hopefully this world is big enough for two oyster kings. 3. More about the above: Seattle's Bastille Restaurant (in Ballard)...
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Native blue mussels are smaller than their Mediterranean counterparts, but just as tasty. They're flash mob mussels: some years there are hardly any on the beach, then the next year they're everywhere. Occasionally, just for fun, they aren't blue at...
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We're getting a little artsy around here, and have been trying our hands at creating Santa Claus ornaments out of oyster shells. Above is an awesome and slightly frightening Santa that Helena created a couple of years ago. Excuse the...
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From blog reader Jeff Holt, who, like us, nicknames his vehicles and loves seafood & big dogs. He stopped by the store in July while roadtripping with his Westy "Bandit" and dog Indy. Hi, Last weekend while driving my project...
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The first commercial Hood Canal shrimp season of 2011 is Friday April 29th. We should have some ready to sell that afternoon, say by 3 pm?? We'll be getting more in over the weekend, so we'll have plenty... and maybe...
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One of our two pound heavyweights latched onto my middle finger today with both paws. The demonic creature proceeded to squeeze as hard as he could, then release slightly, then squeeze even harder. I foolishly tried to drown him in the...
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(unholy reflection). Notice the pink stars on the crab tank? Annie turned us on to chalk paint, so we turned our crab tank into a chalk board. Of course, it's not the best place for a chalk masterpiece because when...
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The other day a customer called from Tacoma and asked if we were the little seafood shack along highway 101. She was disappointed to learn that we'd moved into a newer, bigger building. And a year ago we were worried...
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King Crab and Sherlock, looking ready for anything. Helena (behind the counter) improvised her costume at the last minute, and came through big with the Bucket List. Snacking and sampling. A quartet of rowdy vikings and renegade ship captains came...
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We've been planning this for 5 years, and now it feels like everything's happening all at once. Here's the schedule: 1. We're going to begin moving equipment out of the old store and into the new one tomorrow. 2. During...