Trip to Whistler

Last weekend some friends and I went up to Whistler Blackcomb for a few days. It was beautiful up in the mountains. We had great weather and I’ve been congratulating myself all this weekend, because the weather up in Whistler this weekend is terrible! So we chose the right weekend to go.

The weekend wasn’t about food, but of course a trip can’t be fun if you don’t have good things to eat. We had great burritos one night, cooked up by people from Arizona who know their Tex-Mex; a salad of cucumbers, celery, feta, pita, and mint another night; a coconut birthday cake with blackberry filling; and fresh squeezed juice at the Whistler farmer’s market.

There are no recipes this week, since I’ve been working for the past several weeks in Vancouver, but on the way back from Whistler I stopped in at Horseshoe Bay to pick up some lunch. There’s a sandwich café there and I ordered a veggie sandwich. The sandwich was great, because of a very specific thing they did, which I want to tell you about. The lower half of the bread was spread with a thin layer of cream cheese, topped with walnuts and smoked almonds. The smoked almonds and cream cheese with the vegetables was wonderful! I intend to find some smoked almonds and make some of those sandwiches myself.