MONDAY Turkey & Zucchini Burgers with Green Onion & Cumin | Creamy Sumac Sauce I hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day! I returned home yesterday after a wonderful retreat here. Days filled with yoga, hiking, swimming, massage, reading…resting. It is not until you stop…really stop…that you begin to realize how much “noise” Continue reading → «Turkey & Zucchini Burgers with a Creamy Sumac Sauce»
FRIDAY Spiced Lamb Burgers on the Grill | Yogurt-Cilantro Sauce | Chilled Cucumber Chips The heat, which descended upon the Bay area this week, finally began to subside yesterday evening as soft, cool breezes returned accompanied by a layer of fog pouring over the Golden Gate Bridge…just in time for the yacht club’s Friday Continue reading → «Grilled Lamb Burgers & Yogurt-Cilantro Sauce»
THURSDAY Michael phoned me at lunch time this afternoon to let me know that he would be on the late ferry this evening & suggested that the kids and I meet him in town for dinner… Here comes Daddy… And a few minutes later… My dinner plate this evening…Baby Beet Salad with Greens, Goat Cheese, Continue reading → «Dinner Out & Spring Shopping with a side of Key Lime Pie»
SUNDAY Herb-Butter Roast Chicken | Tuscan-Style Bread Salad | Braised Peas with Prosciutto, Pepper & Pecorino MONDAY Lemony Chicken & Orzo Soup | Toasted Pita Wedges | Ethereally-Smooth Hummus TUESDAY Best Burgers on the Grill | Parfaits made with Meyer Lemon Olive Oil Custard & Olive Oil Maple Granola WEDNESDAY Chili Californio {Slow Cooker} THURSDAY Continue reading → «March 24, 2013 ~ Weekly Dinner Menu»
FRIDAY Winter Tomato Soup {Slow-Cooker} | Crispy Baked Kale with Gruyère Cheese This tomato soup is one of our family’s favorites. It cooks in the slow-cooker which makes it a favorite of mine. The vermouth adds such a wonderful flavor and don’t be stingy with the dried tarragon. Using a hand-held immersion blender, once the soup Continue reading → «Winter Tomato Soup & Crispy Baked Kale with Gruyere Cheese»
This week I received {through the magic of the Internet} my March 2013 issue of Food & Wine magazine. I poured over it’s pages {on my iPad…oh my, every dish looked like it could have been eaten with a fork right from the page}. Upon my first pass of the issue, I knew this Asian Continue reading → «Sunday Morning in SF & Dinner From “Food & Wine”, March 2013»
Today is my break… the girls are taking the dogs to the barn for a run (with the horses). My chores are done. The weekly menu has been prepared & the market shopping done. Max & Daddy are watching football…I slip out for a walk around the island… We live on a small island across Continue reading → «A Sunday Walk…»
Today was Max’s last baseball game of the Fall-ball season. On a more worldly scale, it just so happens that our San Francisco Giants are leading the World Series 3-0. We are very baseball-centric right now… Buster Posey’s catch last night (you know THE one…he caught the ball as it whipped by him, even the Continue reading → «Baseball & Figs…»
All night I listened to the rain & wind hammer against the windows…the first real rain of the season. The Bay waters, even here in the little cove of Belvedere, were angry & despite the raucous of the wind and pounding rain you could hear the clinking of the mast lines from the sailboats just Continue reading → «Rainy Days & Mondays…»
Still basking in the joy of having successfully posted my FIRST weekly menu last night, I decided to indulge myself with a Saturday morning trip to the San Francisco Ferry Building today. An added treat was that my husband came along & we made it a date! Most ladies I know would relish the chance Continue reading → «Mushrooms & a Date…»
