It takes an ocean not to break

Ever since the retail birth of Daiya cheese, Ashley and I have been hastily finding new culinary applications for it. We made calzones. They were exquisite.

I paired mine with Sierra Nevada’s 2010 Summerfest. I think it tasted like a really, really good Budweiser. I like everything I’ve had from Sierra Nevada, and I like seasonal beers, but the summer beer is that hardest to truly enjoy. I think that’s because of all the seasonal beers, the summer beer demands the most arduous circumstances for enjoyment. The Winter, Fall, and Spring all offer brews that can be enjoyed anywhere at virtually anytime. Summer beers are really only good on a hot day, during an outdoor BBQ, preferably when associated with some light physical activity, like Bocce Ball or catch, or some catch-derivative.

Ashley had Lindemans Framboise Raspberry Lambic. For my money, the Lambic is the finest girlie drink on the market.

I also got a bottle of Trader Joe’s Hofbrau Bock. I used to put down approximately 1-gallon of Hofbrau a week when I was working at TJ’s. Of course it’s not the best beer in the world, and probably not the best beer stocked on the Trader Joe’s beer shelf, but it’s definitely the best beer brewed by Trader Joe’s (Gordon Biersch), and it’s definitely the best beer available for $5.99/6-pack in any American metropolitan city.

The next day we went to Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord.
I met David Henry Thoreau!

This is where his cabin used to be.


Thank you, Dave.