Thanks to the lovely little mini prep bowls that I received for my birthday, I’ve been able to start practicing the time honored tradition of TV chefs everywhere: mise en place. Literally meaning “everything in place,” it’s the ultimate chef religion to have all of the ingredients ready for to be cooked, and [...]
I received a few wonderful & unexpected surprises on my birthday (besides Basseterre the bunny — pronounced Bass-Terr) — one including the awesome yellow Tinker Bell shirt from my college (& blogging) buddy Janet! She said she saw it in the store and thought of me and… or probably more my car… and [...]
As if you haven’t noticed by now, Mr. M and I love the beverages… and we’re pretty apt to trying everything out that we see. The latest commercial indulgence: Pepsi throwback.
Now, I was raised in a split soda household: mom drank Coke and dad drank Pepsi. I never had a real preference for either, [...]
[I'll be posting my weekly "weekday" menus online every week, both for inspiration (my searches through cookbooks) and motivation for me to keep it up. I usually keep our spending around $50/week if I do this... but it inflates itself if I play it day-to-day. Plus, I want to prove that it's easy to cook [...]
Last weekend, on our return home from San Francisco, we stopped in Berkeley to visit a couple of shops before heading home. While I was taking a pit stop at Peet’s, Mr. M wandered next door to find a wonderful gem of a tea store: teance. Now I should tell you that I’ve been [...]
I think our little bunny has found himself a name…. Basseterre.
Now before you go thinking I’m crazy and have an affinity for strange names, let me explain this one to you. I wanted to stick with our little family theme of city names… but was having trouble of finding something to match [...]
As a big huge birthday thank you to the world of blogging for keeping me both sane and slightly insane (trust me, that’s a good thing), I’d like to give away a goodie package of 29 great things to one lucky blog reader! The contents of the package will be kept a secret until the [...]
I saw a flyer for Tomoko Maruyama‘s latest show in SF last weekend, and couldn’t wait to get online and see the rest of her work. Lucky for all of us, she has an easy-to-access etsy shop with her prints (& cards) ready to go!
Can I admit that I really wanted [...]
