Category: Cooking & Entertaining

 Hello.  That got your attention, I bet. That is not my cheesecake.  It will be, as soon as I make mine, but the photo is from The Pioneer Woman Cooks website.  If you have not discovered Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, you need to do so without delay.  And be prepared to lose many hours […]

Remember that line from the movie LA Story?  Steve Martin is having an interview with the Maitre D' at a posh restaurant to determine if his finances will allow him to have dinner at the establishment.  It was determined that he "cannot have zee duck".  He "can only have zee chicken".  Well, we had our […]

Thanks guys, for all your kind words of support yesterday.  So I guess my boring life is actually entertaining to some of you…  I think some people forget that an individual's blog is a journal of sorts–a record of that person's interests and a diary of their activities.  If it ends up being enjoyable reading […]

The Europeans have a great idea when it comes to dining alfresco.  They do it every chance they get.  When I have traveled in Europe, one of my favorite things was to notice how many ways people ate their meals outside.  An Italian family, spied from the balcony of my hotel room in Pienza–in their […]

Good morning everyone!  I am a bit off my blogging schedule this week, due to the holiday weekend and recovering from my little sinus procedure.  Hope to get back to my earlybird hours tomorrow. I visited my doctor yesterday for my post op checkup.  He seemed very pleased with his work, and told me that I […]

We are having a super rainy day here in the Monterey, CA area.  In fact, I was supposed to work at Talbots this afternoon, but got a call from my boss that the Plaza where the shop is located had lost power, and so there would be no work today as all businesses were closed.  […]

I picked up this magazine at the grocery store the other day.  I love Cook's publications since the recipes are super well tested and come out great more often than not.  A collection of their All Time Best Recipes was too good sounding to pass up.  I have been browsing through it and decided to […]

My current schedule of working two jobs has caused our social life to take a big hit.  My poor husband, tiring of the same old routine of me coming home and flopping on the couch every evening, decided to take matters into his own hands and invite some friends over for a little dinner party. […]

  Remember me telling you about my birthday celebration, when my sister Andrea made Fruit Pizza for dessert?  This is my favorite dessert.  Andrea made the recipe again on the 4th of July, when we got together to celebrate my nephew Eric's birthday.  The picture above is Andrea's, and the Fruit Pizza is the one […]