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Pre-Hiking at the Park Rock Cafe

June 2nd, 2010 Tweet Facebook Digg Stumble Reddit

These lentils have been cracked.

Before spending a weekend of hiking in Joshua Tree National Park, we stopped at a little shop near the visitor center called the Park Rock Cafe.  We didn’t need too much before a day filled with jerky and trail mix, but we at least wanted to get ourselves a square meal.  There weren’t a lot of options, as you would expect.  It was mostly sandwiches and all of them had some sort of vegetable plopped inside to ruin it.  Despite this, I still chose their Philly Cheese Steak Sandwich, which came with onions and peppers.  I ordered mine without those sandwich killers and then was given a choice between soup and salad.  I made the obvious choice for soup, which was cracked lentils.  I don’t really know how you go about cracking a lentil, but I do know that lentils are more of a legume than a vegetable, and legumes are just fine by me. Continue Reading»


Beer Me Some Breckenridge Agave Wheat

The taste of skiing?

Colorado is definitely a beer state, and not just because Coors comes from the Rocky Mountain State.  No, it is also home to New Belgium (of Fat Tire fame) and seemingly countless other micro and craft breweries.  While in Breckenridge for a ski weekend, I decided I had to at least try one of these, and because it turned out to be the only one available at dinner, my choice happened to come from the creatively named Breckenridge Brewery.  The brewery, by the way, is actually no longer in Breckenridge, having expanded and moved to Denver in 1992.

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