The Endive Chronicles

For the last two weeks Phil and I have been sleeping on an air mattress, cooking with one pan, using paper plates and plastic utensils. Yesterday nearly a month after they left New York, our things arrived filling our tiny apartment to the rafters. I want to take this opportunity to apologize to you all for the lack of pictures from the road as my computer has just been located after a long tedious excavation and my Internet has yet to be established*. I am posting this from my parents computer and she does not have the programs I need to get the job done. I promise that in the coming weeks I will have full reports on everything from my mother in-laws amazing Lithuanian cooking, fiddle-head ferns, saussion d’Avignon, watermelon radishes and the elderly Frenchman who is my new wine merchant. After two weeks of having nothing to do but poke my head into neighborhood shops I am starting to get my bearings and am looking forward to sharing my experiences with you.

 See you next week!

Thank you for visiting!

Erin

*Note to self: Quit screwing around and get a laptop already!

As you are reading this I am in Pennsylvania breaking the first leg of our journey. My mother in-law is taking every opportunity to take me shopping and to stuff us full of wonderful Lithuanian foods. It’s a nice rest between packing up and before the other 2,735 miles of our 2,934 mile Westhampton Beach, NY to Seattle, WA, my new old home. Not to worry, I will be back and posting all about life in Seattle by Friday the 13th of June and I can’t wait to share with you all of the reasons I love the Pacific Northwest. For now I would like to focus on the place I have lived for the last four years, Westhampton Beach and so I leave you with this letter.

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Sorry for the random photo of my dishes! The movers come on Monday and my house has been turned upside down, inside out and may possibly have been hit by a small centralized hurricane. I have made this recipe a thousand times before, but I just couldn’t find time this week. When I am all settled in Seattle I promise to post a picture.

On to what we are really here for, my Smoked Salmon Potato Salad.

As Memorial Day grows ever closer many of you will be dusting off your barbecue or possibly attending the first parties of the season. This could present a bit of a problem as I imagine that several of you will be in need of a really fabulous side dish. This year forget the sketchy glop that passes for potato salad at the grocery store and give my Smoked Salmon Potato Salad a try.

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