Fresh corn is in season and the grocery stores are overflowing with ears of corn to bring home and make great meals. We prepare corn grilled on the cob or grilled, removed from the cob, and used in a risotto or a vinaigrette, served with fish or beef. After a meal of salmon with corn vinaigrette, the next day we try a new (to us) recipe for corn risotto. This preparation starts by making corn stock with corn cobs (after removing the kernels for later use in the risotto), onion, carrot, celery, dark green leek leaves, garlic, salt, pepper, and six cups of water. We bring this all to a boil, then simmer and strain through cheesecloth to get our stock
Indulgent Sojourns: Random Adventures in Food, Wine, and Travel
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Friday, August 15, 2025
Corn Risotto
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
360 Dining Experience on the Discovery Princess
Several Princess cruise ships, including our ship, the Discovery Princess, offer a total-immersion dining experience to "connect our senses with the sights, sounds, textures, and aromas of the Mediterranean." This seven-course, "multi-sensory dining experience" blends destination-inspired storytelling, great food, fine wines, and captivating visual entertainment linked to each course.
We sign up and are led by musicians into the circular dining room.
We continue through the courses, with explanation of the location and sourcing of each displayed on the walls around us.
Friday, August 8, 2025
Glacier Point Wilderness Safari in Skagway
Skagway is located in a narrow glaciated valley at the head of the Taiya Inlet, about 90 miles (143 km) northwest of Juneau. With a population just over 1,000 that doubles during the tourist season, the town sits on the northernmost point of the Inside Passage in southeast Alaska. In its heyday during the Klondike Gold Rush, Skagway was a bustling rough-and-tumble boomtown with over 80 bars to lubricate the prospectors. Now the town offers a sense of the old times for tourists, including a restored historic district, dog sled rides, and the revived White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad taking passengers through the mountains to Canada and back.
We take Glacier Point Wilderness Safari from Skagway which starts with an hour-long catamaran cruise through the Lynn Canal, North American's longest and deepest fjord. After arrival at Glacier Point Beach, we ride a restored school bus (that had to be brought in by barge) to the base camp where we are outfitted with life jackets and paddles and hike a quarter mile through the forest to our canoes for a trip across the lake to a point where we can hike toward the face of the glacier
On our return cruise on the catamaran through the fjord back to Skagway, we pass more beautiful snow-covered mountain views, waterfalls, and seals sunning themselves in the warm (comparatively), sunny weather. Also, many bald eagles are flying along with us, resting in the trees along the shore, and occasionally circling over the cruise ship. With wingspans as much as 8 feet (2.4 meters), the bald eagle population was on the brink of extinction, with only 50 mating pairs in the entire United States in 1963. Now, Alaska's population is estimated at more than 30,000 (300,000 in the lower 48 states) and we see them everywhere.