Plenty of changes here in Winter Harbor, Maine. We're starting to see more and more folks from way out of town and business at the cafe is starting to pick up significantly as a consequence. The cafe is also starting to get a bit of local press as well so I suppose that helps move folks to the quieter side of Frenchman's Bay. Click here for the story in the Ellsworth American.
Speaking of the cafe -- and why not it seems to be the core of our life right now -- there have been quite a few changes here in the past week as well. I will talk more about those when I update the blog in greater detail tomorrow.
Sunday is our day off and we have to drive to Douglas, MA to check out our shipment of household goods from Paris. That's right our stuff finally arrived and we think there may be one box missing. If that is indeed th ecase we need to know exactly which one. Most of the things we shipped back were not of great value except for my Nikon camera system and a couple of hard drives and Susie's knife kit. So we'll drive down and have dinner with Dick this evening and then return to Maine Sunday, stopping in Orono on the way back
Another big change here in WH is that Rosemary, the chef from Boston, finally arrived. She too will be here for the summer. Like susie she's been cooking up a storm, and already she's lenty of great food to go is now available: cole slaw and various other salads but also lots of specialty food items such as orzo salad, slow-braised grape tomatoes, mozzarella and basil in olive oil with kalamatas, and this morning she's working on several fish dishes. She and Susie have even put their heads together: yesterday Susie did several brioche and Rosemary made a wonderful crab salad to go inside the brioche, rather like a sandwich but so much more! Susie continues to produce the morning scones and muffins and coffee cake, in addition to daily specialties such as lemon tartlets with blueberry sauce, lemon creme brulee, and numerous other tarts as well as a variety of pies.
The weather has been quite nice here, with only a couple of days of heat and a bit of humidity. We enjoyed temps in the low 80s with sea breezes while inland they were sweltering in the mid-90s and sticky weather.
Anyway, hope to have at least a little time to bring you up-to-date on what has happened here at the cafe since Patrick left. Lots to talk about.
Gotta go. Guzel is here and getting ready to open. Alex just arrived and is prepping his sandwich board and steeling himself for the onslaught of hungry dejeuners!
Wish you were here,
Steve
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