So, you want fresh, local food do you?

... Well then you may just have to head out and dig for your own clams!

Saturday found David and I at a little bay right outside of Tillamook. We were there taking a class on clam digging and it was awesome! We gained a wonderful amount of knowledge, met some really sweet people and came home with our max of 40 clams (20 each)!

Lunch was at The Schooner, a darling little fish shack on the Netarts Bay. We enjoyed fish and chips and awesome clam chowder, along with a cold beer of course!

Our lunch-time view

Once home, we moved our clams from their chilly cooler to a colander, covered by a wet towel and some ice... all ready to be steamed and then cleaned!

Beautiful right?!

All Clean!

Our sauce of clam juice, white wine, garlic, parsley and onion

What a day! The weather couldn't have been better; cool, no rain and the sun peeking out later in the day. We came home exhausted from our early start (we needed to meet the other students who were taking the class at 6:30 in Tillamook!) and in need of a nap! After a little shut eye, we enjoyed the quiet job of cleaning up our haul and doing our little kitchen dance... that we do so well, if I do say so myself! David and I love cooking together and cooking up something that we caught together earlier in the day only makes it that much more fun!