Home-made salmon cakes with a spicy salsa thousand island sauce, on top of spinach salad with champagne dressing, croutons, and fresh avocado slices.
Wine with the salmon cakes: Grigich Hills Estate chardonnay
Salmon filets with crispy salmon skin on a bed of dungeness crab and herbed mashed potatoes, with pan-roasted cherry tomatoes.
Wine with the salmon filets: Roudon-Smith [...]
We spent the afternoon in San Francisco yesterday. Bill got his mom some McEvoy Ranch organic olive oil at the Ferry Building Marketplace on the SF waterfront. Walking to the building from the parking lot, we saw a new restaurant that I want to check out soon. It’s called La Mar Cebichería Peruana and it [...]
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We’re hosting Thanksgiving dinner again this year. I think we’re gonna pull it off without a hitch, especially since I’ve been prepping and cooking since this afternoon (Wednesday). Seven people, including Bill and me, will be gorging here tomorrow. I’m cooking everything except for the Yorkshire pudding, which is Bill’s assignment along with assembling the [...]
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Once upon a time, Bill lived in England and loved eating Yorkshire pudding.
A couple of weeks ago, he was watching a Gordon Ramsay show on TV and was reminded of this tasty treat.
A few days ago, he texted me while I was at work.
“I’m thiking pot roast and Yorkshire pudding for dinner.”
Hell, yeah!
We had originally [...]
Farmers’ Markets.
One of the best things about living in the Bay Area is the great number of them in all nine counties. Here in Silicon Valley, we have quite a few that are open one day a week year-round. In summertime, the number of markets swells, and even more neighborhoods get their own [...]
We have mangosteens!
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord in Heaven! We have mangosteens!
I read a post on MarketManila sometime ago, which mentioned the fact that mangosteens had become available in the United States. I got excited then, but I pretty quickly forgot about it and moved on to other amusements. (Hello, ADD.)
Anyway, Bill recently [...]
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