I've really enjoyed staying with family and friends on this trip and I'm very grateful for those that have taken us in and treated us like family. It's been nice to sample the different flavors in the cities we've traveled to, but it's always a bit better when you have a home cooked meal. However, the family and friends that have been cooking for us are darn good cooks anyways!
Most recently my friend Bryan in Santa Clara treated me to a couple home cooked meals and Logan and Eric fixed us a number of delicious meals while we were staying with them Friday night through Sunday morning. Chip's friends Jamie and Aly in Colorado Springs treated us to a late lunch with homemade appetizers, steak salad, and a ginger pound cake with fresh strawberries and ice cream for dessert! (I was happy and stuffed)
We then headed up to a town just northwest of Denver called Lafayette where we had dinner with Chip's friends Janine and Greg who have been following the blog for a while and were keenly aware of the food reviews, so they decided to kick it up a notch (perhaps their cooking just stays on that level for all I know). They prepared us quite a meal of smoked salmon over linguine in a butter cream sauce and teriyaki green beans. The acquisition of the salmon even had a story to go with it; a friend of theirs had gone on a fishing trip up to Alaska and brought back like 100 lbs of salmon and had given them a portion of the plunder. Greg, in the indigenous traditions of the northwest, smoked the salmon over alder wood and I believe even some apple wood. Janine then broke out some triple mud pie that she had crafted earlier in the day that was delightful. This morning Greg broke out the café latte skills and crafted us a couple brews.
Today we're headed back to my brother's house in Ft. Leavenworth for some more tasty spoils.
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