As I mentioned in my last post, we celebrated Matt’s birthday with a rather large dinner party. I’m really excited to share it with you because I think it’s important to demystify this part of entertaining: planning and having events that could otherwise seem unattainable or just plain scary to pull off. I was really...
Did you know that crab season on the West Coast (San Francisco, anyway) is in the middle of the winter? I found that out sort of the hard way this past summer… I was enticed by all the glorious photographs of lobster feeds mid-summer at the beach, and clam bakes in the sand, crab feeds...
It’s been ages since I did a post on food (way back here, I think)… but don’t think for a minute that we have stopped eating! This summer has been full of farmer’s market bounty, and since the weather has been so mild (relatively), the growing season on many items has stretched out longer than...
Let me start out with full disclosure: I am not Irish. I am American mutt, of course, but probably couldn’t come up with even a teeny-tiny bit of Irish in my heritage to save my own life. Matt doesn’t think he has any Irish background either (although if anyone would know it would be Aunt...
You all may remember, once upon a time, long ago, when your children all were young and cute (which now they’ve grown to be corporate executives and such)… well, anyway, WAY back then… I posted the first part of this Shepherd’s Pie series. Which aforementioned series is not REALLY “Shepherd’s Pie” to begin with, because...
It’s still rainy here in Northern California and I’m appreciative, because we desperately need it. Yay for snow pack and more water! To keep from getting the winter doldrums, I suggest curling up by the fire with a good book, or playing a game you don’t usually play (for us it’s chess) and eating comfort...
