Mae's Food Blog: Shenandoah

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Monday, May 22, 2023

Where we ate this weekend

The Bad Luck Bar and Sake Brewery, Charlottesville, VA

Many Japanese restaurants have white cats with one paw raised to bring good luck
The Bad Luck Bar has black cats: a great place for a post-graduation dinner.
Coincidence: I just read about the cats and sake last week.

A glass of premium sake.

At Graduation Parties

Friday afternoon: a party at Miriam’s friends’ special rooms on the lawn at UVa.
We went to several other parties, but didn’t take photos.
In the background you can see the vast number of chairs set up for the weekend’s graduation ceremonies.

Carter Mountain, Charlottesville

Apple pie, donuts, cider, and strawberry lemonade with a view.

Sunday Brunch at Guajiros Miami Eatery, Charlottesville

Avocado toast with cream cheese, cucumbers, pickled onions, and an egg.
Delicious! Also very good orange juice and coffee.

Sunday Afternoon: Driving through Shenandoah, National Park

I didn’t take a photo this year when we stopped for blackberry cobbler
in Shenandoah National Park, but here’s the photo from 2019.
(This year it came in a cardboard dish, not a nice little oven dish.)

Dinner: Takeout in Fairfax

“Sassy Shrimp”

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Wild Blackberries in Shenandoah

"Blackberries are all over the mountain," said the bartender who brought us this delicious piece of blackberry ice cream pie.
As we hiked in the park, we didn't see any blackberries, as they won't be ripe for months.
The ice cream had a really fresh flavor, even though it must have been made from frozen or otherwise preserved fruit.

I tried to find out what blackberry plants look like in early June, but I'm
still not sure. Was this bunny nibbling on blackberry leaves?

These deer were eating rotten wood from a fallen tree (or maybe grubs)?
But were there blackberries all around them?

Are these blackberry bushes that we saw near the trail?

Are some of the plants around the waterfall blackberries?

Or here? All the guides to foraging along the Appalachian Trail mention blackberries!

Whichever plant produced the blackberries, they were delicious. On our second night in the Skyland Resort, we again ate
dinner in the Taproom, and ordered the blackberry cobbler, with the same blackberry ice cream on top.
Skyland was founded in 1888, long before the National Park took over the area. I wonder how old the recipes are.

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