You may have noticed there have been a few changes around here from our salt production to Kent’s School Food Service work. We thought we’d share some of those details here as we wrap up 2019.

Last Friday we decided to take a drive out to Manson to find a change of environment for a project we were working on. Where better to work on a project than a tasting room? Especially one with a large, comfy patio! We had walked by this tasting room many times and were drawn by the sound of laughter coming from the outside seating area.

One of our favorite TV scenes is from Downton Abbey. The family is sitting around the dining table and a family member informs them that he is starting a “job.” Everyone around the table is flummoxed. He tells them, of course he’ll have time to help with the family business on the weekend. The dowager then asks, “What is a weekend?” This has become our running joke.

Thank you for joining us for the 2nd Annual Tapas & Jazz Night at CheffyK and CA’s yesterday! And thank you to Ron Thordarson and Dale Ayotte of Rondoswing for bringing us some fantastic Gypsy Jazz!

In April we are bringing a group of people for cooking classes, sightseeing, and plenty of swimming in the ocean and the pool at the casa we’ve reserved in Bucerias. We still have some space if you’d like to join us.

In April we are bringing a group of people for cooking classes, sightseeing, and plenty of swimming in the ocean and the pool at the casa. We still have some space if you’d like to join us.

On our second day in Bucerias, Mexico, Kent had his first pedicure! Then, we took our happy feet down to the beach to find him a hat.

Our last trip to Bucerias, Mexico was in July. We expected high temperatures, high humidity, and many thunderstorms and we were not disappointed! We’ll be heading back in April to stay at the gorgeous Casa de la Reyna (the picture below), right on the beach and a short walk from the kiosko or town square.

Thank you for your support during the last six months as we’ve slowly gotten CheffyK and CA’s cooking school off the ground. It has been an eventful year and we have a lot more planned for 2014!

Last Saturday we had our first cooking class in Chelan on CA’s porch, “Fire it up, Baby!” an outdoor BBQ class. The focus was to keep it simple, do it all outdoors with some fire, a slab of hard-rock maple, a knife and the hands our mamas gave us!

I have to admit, I was pretty bummed when I realized today that I didn’t coin the term “Micro-Cuisine”. CA and I have been getting into and really talking about the local food scene in the central Washington area we live in. We were discussing our plans to begin offering some sort of culinary tourism aspect of our cooking school.

So far this weekend we’ve spent two days picnicking at the lake. Chelan is a seriously beautiful place to live! In the summertime the population more than doubles and the town is hopping! This is especially true over the 4th of July weekend.

Tonight we visited Harvest House Art Gallery and Restaurant in Waterville, WA. The evening began with a gorgeous motorcycle ride up through the Waterville Grade. It is about a 30 minute, winding ride through rock formations and evergreen trees, ascending into wheat fields and expansive sky.

In the last two weeks we have been through senior award nights, choir concerts, piano recitals, graduations, grad parties, talent shows, kids returning from college, end-of-school events, Cafe Mela performances (involving CheffyK’s son) and tomorrow is the culminating dance recital that marks the end of the 2012-2013 school year.

Back in the 80’s while working at Hayden Lake Country Club I worked with this old bartender named Joe. He was a crotchety old guy about 7 feet tall, skinny as a rail with a new joke everyday.