Last night, I went to enjoy a wonderful “mommy date” with my oh-so-awesome friend Laura at the fabulous Ella in downtown Sacramento. We indulged in amazingly mesmerizing cocktails, mushroom soup on a rainy day, meatballs, and then devoured our desserts: I got chocolate semifreddo w/banana mousse and she got a cherry [...]
Summer is truly here this week, with another 100+ degree day this afternoon. Unlike other locales where the temperature peaks around 12-1pm, the hottest part of our valley summers come at 4pm. That often dampens the excitement of cooking dinner after sweating up a storm on the journey home… and usually gets [...]
*these are recipes that have become staples in our household and make it into the rotation frequently
Here’s a wonderfully easy recipe to make at home on any weeknight of your choosing! If you’re like me, you truly value the ability to “measure and dump” after a long Tuesday and [...]
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After making our indulgent Bobby Flay recipe the week before, we had some extra prosciutto hanging around the fridge for snacking. Ironically, just as I was planning out my weekly menu at work during lunch hour, a colleague came by to share an amazing recipe [...]
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We bought 2 giant baskets of strawberries from our "local" strawberry farm (aka the one less than a mile from our doorstep) on Saturday afternoon. Sugary sweet and perfectly ripe, these berries needed to be eaten quickly so we could refill on some more ripe [...]
Forgive me if you’re a big tomato sauce kind of person. This recipe doesn’t have any sort of sauce in it… just tomatoes… lots of pretty and colorful heirloom tomatoes…
During football season (aka. the fall), we make homemade pizza every Monday night. While the toppings vary a bit depending on what’s in the fridge, [...]
week two: Chocolate stout beer roasted chicken with fig-jam pan sauce (Inspired by a recipe from Martha Stewart Living, 2011)
If you’ve ever heard me talk about my infatuation for brie, it’s usually accompanied by my adoring love for fig spread (I’m a Damatia girl). Take those two ingredients and [...]
Dear blog friends – I’m about to embark on a pretty ridiculous journey, so bare with me. You see, after last year’s flurry of Zuni chicken mania on the blogosphere, I came up with an idea to spice up our weekly routine and bring you along for the ride. You see, we eat lots [...]
A few weeks back, a co-worker asked for advice on where to take a date to dinner on a quick evening trip to San Francisco. We had a short dialogue about what he was looking for exactly, and in the end I gave him three suggestions for he and his buddies to debate. In [...]
I’d like to tell you that they’re the best pancakes you’ll ever eat in your whole entire life. But that would be a lie for those of you out there that don’t eat nor like bacon, don’t eat nor like chocolate and hate the idea or smell or taste of the combination. But if you [...]
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My favorite snack is a good recipe. No really. I read a recipe online, in a book (I often go to Borders to read cookbooks to supplement my minimal lunch) or in a magazine, and my mouth waters with delight. I imagine myself tasting it… and then [...]
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When Mr. M is out of town, I throw back to my single days and often make silly things for dinner. Last Tuesday was no exception, as I stopped off at the store to buy some fresh bread but felt a bit uninspired to cook much since it was so darn [...]
