Park City Adventures

VACATION! SKIING! John and I were in Park City for our annual ski week last week, so no blogging when there's powder out there! Actually, it was a very strange week. Arrived Friday afternoon, and the snow didn't look too good. Saturday it was raining. I wanted to stay in and not waste a lift ticket on crappy skiing, but he talked me into going out. Turned out the snow at the summit wasn't too bad, but after 3 hours we were so wet we were both ready to quit. That's a good thing - we weren't sore the next morning. The weather got better and better through the week - snow showers Sunday, two feet of powder Monday, more snow showers Tuesday, and sun, sun, sun on Thursday and Friday. Only crashed a couple of times, and no injuries, so it was a great week. It was my first time skiing in a knee brace (thanks to blowing my ACL last April), and I only skied a couple of blacks, but we still had a great time.

So, you ask, what about the FOOD?
We usually go out only a couple of times on a ski trip. This year we were pretty conservative - no really pricy meals, but we did get some tasty ones. We didn't go out until Monday, as Sundance was still on when we arrived and we knew it would be crazy in town. Monday we decided to go someplace pretty casual - Easy Street Brasserie. We've been there before and enjoyed it. I had their lobster bisque, which was wonderful, but it was so rich I wasn't very hungry for the "Big Bowl of Mussels" entree I'd ordered. It was good, too, but really, how many mussels can one girl eat? Staying in a tiny condo (it was our year for the "lock-off" studio portion of our timeshare) left us with few cooking options (micro and electric skillet), but the marinara sauce on the mussels was so good we decided to take it with us and have seafood marinara pasta the next night. More on that later. John had the Hill Country Quesadilla and a Caesar salad. He was happy with both, though he complained a bit that there was a drizzle on the quesadilla (he's SO picky!). The quesadilla was stuffed with chorizo, and looked yummy.
Our other downtown dining night we went to Butcher's Chophouse. I was hungry for BEEF. I got the prime rib, and he got a filet (plain, boring). I also had the beet salad, which was WAY too much food, so that ended up being turned into a sandwich for lunch the next day. Butcher's was OK, but nothing to blog/brag about. Beef is beef, after all.
Finally, to avoid a second trip to Albertson's, we went to the little Thai place at the resort base on Thursday. Pretty good larb gai, panang curry, and tom kha goong, but nothing spectacular. Cheap enough, though, considering it's a resort.
The only disappointment was that we didn't get to go to the Blind Dog this year. It's our favorite Park City restaurant, but with Sundance going on we knew we wouldn't get in on the weekend. Oh, well, there's always next year!