Homemade provel cheese
Recipe for homemade provel cheese, a blend of cheddar, Swiss, and provolone that give every pizza a velvety taste of St. Louis
Which Tea Should You Drink With Your Meal?
This is a sponsored post. Content and images were provided to us. If you are a true tea aficionado, you know that all teas aren’t created equal. There are as many different teas as there are hours in the day, and each one has its own special character. Choosing...
Sweet on sauerkraut
Sauerkraut has been gaining in popularity in the past decade as more and more of us discover what our ancestors knew very well: it’s a delicious and versatile condiment with numerous health benefits.
What’s The Best Program To Help You Lose Weight?
Everyone wants to know the best way to lose weight, but few people realize that the problem has already been well and truly solved. While many people anxiously wait for the next crackpot diet involving baked beans or baby formula, there are others who are walking,...Peaches – nature’s candy in my hand or can or pie
“Peaches come from a can / They were put there by a man / in a factory downtown.” This is one of our family-inside-joke sort of songs, one of those ludicrous and vaguely hilarious things I found before a summer Big Sur road trip. It went on the Big Sur...Top Chef Masters Season 5
Summer of Top Chef love starts tonight with the first episode of Top Chef Masters – woot! Not sure how much love the chefs will be feeling once they find out their first challenge is . . . skydiving? Really, Bravo? I was ready to go find a tranquilizer just...
Desserts inspired by modern art
I can’t tell you how much I love this. Caitlin Freeman, pastry chef at SFMOMA’s Blue Bottle Cafe (update: there’s no longer a location in the SFMOMA) creates these edible masterpieces inspired by the museum’s works of art. I have...
How do you choose a bottle of wine?
We have friends over fairly often for dinner, and I always love it when they bring wine. I don’t care what kind is it, how much it costs, or even how it tastes . . . any choice you make either because the bottle is pretty or it’s a tried and true favorite,...
First fish
A quick stop at Day’s Market for a bag of ice was the daily de rigueur in the sailboat days of our early marriage. No refrigerator on the Ericson 30 we called home, just a deep insulated box under the speck of formica counter that needed constant replenishment...
Yiayia loves to milk her goat
(updated 9/29/2023) Grandma Yiayia does it again in Athenos Feta’s new commercial, reminding us all that “milk comes from teat, not box.” (Well, yes it does. I hope we’re not so removed from our food supply that this is news!) I milked a goat...
50 and Counting with the Rolling Stones in San Jose
There’s got to be something wrong with getting dressed up and sipping roasted truffle bisque before a Rolling Stones show. Maybe not as wrong as Jessica Biel wearing a clip-on nose ring to Chaos to Couture, but when said roasted truffle bisque is accompanied by lobster tail and is served in a restaurant arena at a special reservations-required seating before the show, it’s cause to wonder. While Mick and Keith were backstage, possibly channeling eternal youth inside matching hyperbaric chambers, a legion of similarly-aged fans sat inside The Grill at the HP Pavilion at a $72.95-per-person-pre-fixe-Rolling-Stones menu, selecting from house made chanterelle pasta, red wine marinated poussin, applewood bacon wrapped filet, or potato scaled turbot. And drinking wine. Check it out.
A dog walked into a bar . . .
Pup took me for a walk this morning. He didn’t seem to want to take our usual route around the block to the empty field above Seacliff Beach to dig at gopher holes, so I followed him to see what he wanted to do. He made a beeline for Kid Two’s bus stop,...Welcome to my skillet!
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