August 27th, 2010
Oh the South, land of lots and lots of humidity… when flipping through our pictures from our vacation, I realized that we didn’t take many… only about 10… why, you ask? well, every time we brought out the camera, the humidity would fog up the lens giving up some blurry artsy photographs…
However, we did eat some delicious food… we started in Chapel Hill to show Juan around my hometown… then traveled to Charleston (Good call Gale!)… ended up in Greenville to see my parents before heading back to DC… In typical Ginny and Juan fashion, we roamed around exploring and eating. It was a really nice vacation, although too short! While devouring some delicious crepes and fresh made guac at Queen Street Grocery in Charleston, we were struck with the amount of local small businesses we were patronizing… A list of our favorites…
Weaver Street Market- My favorite market in Chapel Hill!
The Chapel Hill Creamery- We followed a gravel road, saw the cows and had our pick of fresh cheeses. I personally loved the Carolina Moon- a brie-like cheese- that we destroyed with Lemon-Rosemary Weaver Street bread.
Queen Street Grocery- Crepes! Guacamole! Need I say more. It was delicious! The food was made with care and it was excellent. I would highly recommend it!
Firefly Vodka- A local distillary that makes Sweet Tea Vodka (mixed with lemonade- oh my!). The tea comes from the only tea plantation in America, Charleston Tea Plantation- The makers of the vodka also make wines out of Muscadine Grapes (photo above). We visited both places and, of course, tried the various beverages. I do not like sweet wine so the wine was not for me but everything else was very good. I loved learning how tea is actually grown and processed.
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January 31st, 2010
Juan and I spent a couple days in San Francisco in November… yep, I am just getting around to posting this…
We don’t have a ton of pictures… but I picked a few… we roamed around as per usual… went to Alcatraz…
we saw some sea lions… and none too late apparently…
giggled over the composting bin…
saw the last known pay phone in Chinatown… oh yes, ate some great food including Tartine… more on that to come! Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! Juan is here visiting so I’m quite happy!
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October 13th, 2009
Juan and I both like to roam around grocery stores looking for new, exotic, interesting ingredients. Juan, especially, likes to look at the fruit and Costa Rica was no different… We discovered many different types of fruit, which led to an entertaining photo shoot, as I struggled to get decent photos with very bad lighting… Now, beside the abundance of papaya and pineapple at every meal, we also found these fruits… which I’ve tried to correctly name… except for that top picture… I can’t seem to come with a definite answer… any ideas? We broke them open with our teeth and sucked out the pulp…very sweet…
Starfruit- this one was a little sour but I still love starfruit.
Guanabana- As I showed you before, Guanabana is an interesting looking fruit. I drank it almost daily as a fruit juice for breakfast. It is sweet and very refreshing.
Lychee? also known as Mamones… We bought a huge bag for a dollar. A little sour but fun to photograph.
Passion Fruit…This was really good, although I have a strange aversion to little seeds, so I had to eat it with my eyes closed.
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