apalachicola oysters = the best.

that is pretty much all you need to know.  apalachicola oysters are a.freakin.mazing.

so we ate them a lot.  it was awesome.

the first night, we went to a fun open air restaurant called eddy teach's.  the raw oysters were definitely the best part.  that & the florida state fan that lent us bug spray.  thanks, dude!

{classy.  loved it.}

we drove across the bridge to the town of apalachicola for lunch one day & ate at up the creek raw bar.  it is a fabulous restaurant right on the bay with all sorts of interesting seafood.  i had an alligator burger - ground up alligator with a fancy slaw.  so different from anything i've had & so good.  we will absolutely head back to this place if we are in the area again, which i really hope happens soon!

{beautiful food with a beautiful view!}

in addition to the great restaurants at which we ate, we cooked a fantastic amount of fresh seafood at our beach house!  there was a local food truck that sold all the fresh seafood you could want.  food truck + fresh seafood = a wonderful wonderful combo.

have i told you about our little cuisinart fryer?  it has become one of our most fun kitchen tools.  we love bringing it on vacation when you are totally ok with eating ridiculously fattening & delicious foods.  {see...you want to go on vacation with us!}

so we fried a lot of foods...

{fried shrimp!}

{fried oysters & fried onions!}

{fried okra!}

on our first night in, we made the most lovely of all beach meals: the shrimp boil.  it was peyton & my first time to do a shrimp boil ourselves, & i will say we did a mighty fine job.  {one tip: cook the shrimp for a very short amount of time!  the instructions we were following had us cook it far too long.  bright pink after a couple of minutes is all you need.}

{yum!}

{my wonderful husband being artistic during our meal.

so cute.}

fabulous food.  fabulous vacation.  let's go again...soon :)

love love,

kjp.