unc jay visit

uncle jay arrived a few days ago to visit for the long easter weekend...he got here on friday around dinner time and i bbq'd up a leg of lamb...i used alton brown's recipe, marinated it w/ mint leaves (from my garden), mustard, red wine, salt, pepper and garlic.... next day, went to the falls, a fish hatchery and hood river.... dinner at clark lewis for some awesome, local organic foods... halibut, radishes, scallops, mussels, pork, rock fish and squid w/ pasta... drinks at doug fir, mcmenamins, and more....saturday off to cannon beach / indian beach, for cool climbiing on the rocks, awesome seafood: fish and chips, dungeness crab, razor clams, etc... wached 10 commandments at night....sturgeon fishing today! we caught about 4-5 fish, only 1 keeper, though, a 42 incher. sturgeon are living dinosaurs...they haven;t changed in 20 million years, they are bottom feeders, relatives of sharks, CRAZY looking, and taste pretty decent....the guide cleaned it for us - they are really different than most fish....i baked some and fried some up for dinner tonight...new sopranos (slow), and new entourage tonight (pretty decent)...off to voodoo doughnuts later...off to some wine tasting and to visit jeannie and chris tomorrow...next week off to a conference in orlando for work, then week after off to philly...

check out a bunch of pics over the past few days right here:

uncle jay visit 4-8-07