Maine Last Weekend
We went to bed so early! What is it about being away from your living room, with its built-in suggestion of tasks and chores, and away from your laptop, that makes it so easy to go to bed?! The sun poured through our windows beginning at 5am and I didn’t mind since we’d gone to bed at 10pm.
We had lobster rolls on our first evening. I like a place that toasts the roll, assumes chips are included, and sells it to you for $11. Unheard of in Boston. Thurston’s also served potato salad with fresh dill, bits of red onion, and corn. And a corn and crab chowder that was almost entirely piles of shredded crab. We shared a pitcher of a breezy drinkable beer called Thurston’s Lobster Ale, of unknown origin.
We tried peaches on the grill. Flesh side down, they ended up tasting faintly smokey but wonderfully warm and mushy. We ate them with vanilla ice cream mixed with grape nuts. Apparently this is a standard flavor in Maine. Strangely delicious. “Like a perfectly soggy bowl of cereal,” Joe said. I wouldn’t agree with that since I don’t like soggy cereal, but it does describe the texture.
We went for exactly one hike to the top of one mountain. At the top there was a puddle full of silky mud that Lux fairly slithered into. She ended up coated in mud and had to be hiked back down half naked.
A soup kitchen was raising funds by serving dozens of popovers, four different kinds of jams, and coffee in small tea cups. Obviously we had to attend. Then we wandered out to the rocky shores to hunt for rocks to give our stone-carving friend (we didn’t find any good ones).
I started reading My Family and Other Animals because it was on the shelves of the cottage where we were staying. It’s a memoir of a family that moved to an island in Greece in the 1930s, written by the youngest brother. I love it.
Lux has an empty jar of almond flavoring in her mouth. The perfect size for sore gums to chew on.
Links for travel in Southwest Harbor & Bar Harbor: seriously spectacular ice cream at Mt. Desert Ice Cream, piled on lobster rolls at Thurston’s, a soup kitchen that also sells meals at Common Good Soup Kitchen, buy clams, mussels, and eggs only from Rat’s and always from Rat’s.
10 Comments
Crystal Mae (@TheEsthete)
Popover fundraiser? Oh, that is wonderful.
Rachael
The fact that you only commented on that food item makes me think the grapenut-ice cream is old news to you?
annetressa
I like the photo of Lux moving to grab some luscious jam covered something…
Rachael
that’s the popover covered in wild blueberry jam. I hadn’t thought of it but popovers make great baby food–eggy and easy to eat!
Annie Slocum
Looks like a perfect time!!
susiegirlblog
love the pictures with the grill… and the general feeling of ease in all the pictures.
noelle
I love all these photos to bits. Do we need a popover pan to make popovers, or can we just make them in a muffin pan? Because we need popovers now.
Rachael
According to the woman at the Kitchen, the pan makes all the difference. And it is a funky pan that would probably take up some space. But maybe you could invest, indulge for a couple months and then pass it on?
kk
btw i love the picture of you and lux in the little puddle. cutest.
Blaze
This post made me hungry! My husband is from maine but our family trip last summer was my first time visiting. I loved it & we can’t wait to go back. Bookmarking this one!