Last week was teacher appreciation week at my son's school. We love our teachers and our school so I wanted to definitely put some effort into our appreciation gifts. One of the other moms in our class organized a luncheon and everyone volunteered to bring...
Happy New Year! Here we are already the end of January almost 1 whole month into 2011. I can't believe it. January. The dead of winter, the month when we are all trying to stick to our New Year's resolutions. It's cold and dark and...
So the Holiday Season is upon us once again. I love the holidays. I love walking in downtown SF and looking at all the beautiful holiday decorations that are up and listening o the street musicians do their renderings of the holiday classics. One thing I...
I love cauliflower. I would go so far to say that it i my favorite vegetable. This week. Seriously though, I find it to be very versatile and delicious. Recently I even saw someone on Food TV make a cauliflower ragout and serve it with...
I often face the age old question at my house-how can I get my 4 yr old to eat his veggies? I have begged, threatened, pleaded and tried bribing. It usually results in a flat out refusal to eat or him taking 1 bite and...
So I have been thinking about eggplant a lot lately. I have been in the mood for it since last week when I stayed with my sister in Tennessee. She had all this fresh eggplant from their garden that was just waiting to be turned...
There is a restaurant here in Marin that I just love, it's called Insalatas and it features Mediterranean inspired food. They have the best salads, and soup and hummus. I love going there for lunch with a book and just having a really delicious Chicken Fatoush...
My parents were visiting last week so it was a busy week. I didn't have time really to update the blog. But I did cook a lot. It also happened to be very very warm here last week. By warm I mean like 100 degrees!...
Yesterday was Sunday and it was really sunny and warm here for a change. It finally felt like summer so I was motivated to work in the yard all day. It was great but before I knew it the day had flown by and it...
So. It's cold, windy, foggy and drizzly here in Marin. This morning I loafed around my house till 11 and then decided to take the ferry in to San Francisco and have lunch and snap up whatever produce I could before the farmers packed it in...