A food blogger, I’m not.

So I’m getting ready for the 2nd Annual Chocolate Extravaganza at the Museum of the Aleutians, tonight, beginning at 7 PM. I still have 8 tickets left. If you want one I will hold it at the door for you. Let me know.

I keep forgetting to take pictures of my concoctions as I am preparing them. I think of the camera as I am putting the finished product into a container. I love food blogs (actually I am addicted to cookbooks if you really want to know the truth) and I really like to see the process that people go through when they blog about making a recipe. Not doing to good on that front.

Tonight I am bringing three types of hand-dipped chocolates to donate to the Museum. Some of them will be put on the table to eat immediately, but I would imagine that most of them will be for the Museum to sell to raise funds. Included will be Sea Salt Caramels, Cherry Cordials, and Grand Marnier Truffles. Oh, maybe candied orange peels dipped in chocolate, if I have time to dip them.

Grand Marnier truffles drying, prior to enrobing and decorating.

I always want my stuff to be fresh, so it seems I am always down to the wire timewise. I will definitely have to work on that issue.

If I was a real food blogger, I would have shown you the ingredients in the pot on the stove, the mixture bubbling its way to 257 degrees, the cut pieces of caramel, the almost always messy job of dipping, and definitely, the sea salt sprinkle at the end. But alas…

Sea salt caramels in the box and ready to go.

So I have got to get going. I know that Annabelle Wilt, Linda Ellsworth, AB Rankin, Denise Rankin, Debra Mack, Kristine King, Shawn Dickson, Laresa Syverson, Zoya Johnson, Bai Kirkland and her friend Leah, and Chris and Wendy Hladick are bringing something chocolate-y. Actually, Laresa is bring her homemade gingerale to help clear the palate. I know there are others out there making something delicious. Hope to see you all there.

New page added…

fish Just a quick note to let you know I added a new page listing our Unangan values. I was not able to insert a pdf file (investigating what I did wrong) so I had to go through my whole document and change some letters. Whereever you see and x^ or a g^, the ^ is supposed to be on top of the letter in the Unangam tunuu font. Check it out.

Geese….yum, yum!

Laresa and I decided to go for a walk on the spit yesterday. Imagine our surprise to come across a beach full – and I mean BEACH FULL – of geese. We actually went down there to see if the otters were still hanging out. Yes, they were, but I didn’t have a zoom lens with me. You can see them hanging out there in the distance. Laresa and I were thinking these geese would be really easy to get to the table. We contemplated a bola, a net, Laresa’s awesome arm – armed with a rock (ask the ptarmigan), but decided the geese were acting a little too friendly to just take them to dinner without giving them a chance to decline!