How are all of you? I’m okay. I’ve had a fever of unknown origin for a few days and I smell of illness. You know, the I’ve been in my pajamas much too long kind of a smell. But my temperature is down to only 99.5 today, woohoo.
I probably don’t need to point out that cooking has been the farthest thing from my mind these last few days so unfortunately I have no recipe to share with you today. I’ve failed at the nablopomo thing also but I’ve decided that is not so bad… I should have waited a couple of months to try it and I should have planned a bit more before embarking on such a challenge. Ah well.
While I have not been cooking or baking, I have been thinking about food a fair bit. Things like ceviche and stone fruits (no, not together). And I hope in the coming weeks to find the time to make all of these dreams come true. I also started reading David Lebovitz‘s The Sweet Life in Paris and so far I love it. He has such a great voice, and the recipes are intriguing. I can’t explain it really but the last few months I’ve been really into French things so it really is up my alley. By French things I mean everything from trying French foods and restaurants, reading about people who have lived there, etc. I guess the last few months is not really the right timeframe… I’ve been a bit of a francophile for a few years but the last few months it has cranked up. I don’t know if it’s all of the Julia Child talk leading up to the Julie and Julia movie coming out or reading her book My Life in France
. Or if it’s just been the amazing restaurants I’ve been to with Dan (La Toque in Napa, La Note in Berkeley, the Plumed Horse in Saratoga, etc). Or is it just the fascination with food in general? I’m not sure. My next step I think is to learn a little of the language as well as more about the cuisine.
Anyway, I hope I wasn’t too rambley today. What’s on your mind these days?
Tagged as: david lebovitz, french, julie and julia, my life in france, nablopomo, the sweet life in paris
The other day it was so hot that I did not want anything warm to eat so I sent out a tweet “What is your favorite heat-wave meal?” I got a few responses, but the one that stood out was from Scott aka Seattle Food Geek: “My fave is a platter of mozzarella, tomato, basil, melon, prosciutto, bread, w/olive oil, + a bottle of Riesling.”
Why didn’t I think of that? It’s something we’ve had before, but somehow I couldn’t come up with anything beyond “cold. no-cook. cold…” (it was hot, people). Anyway, just because I couldn’t think of it myself, doesn’t mean I couldn’t eat it. So Dan and I made a meal of caprese salad and melon with prosciutto… a little baguette and good olive oil on the side. Perfect, light meal.
Tagged as: appetizers, caprese, heat wave, melon, nablopomo, prosciutto, quick meal
Happy Saturday everyone. I started out the weekend feeling like I was coming down with something which as Melissa mentioned the other day just isn’t fair… being sick in the summer sucks. Luckily it never developed into a full-fledged illness, I just had a couple of days of halfway, not-quite, almost sick which is really bad enough. But let’s put that behind us, shall we?
This evening Dan and I went out to dinner. It was a warm evening and our first choice was just to go sit at one of our favorite little cafes with a charcuterie and cheese board and a little wine. But it turns out they close at 7pm on Saturday. Friday is the night they stay open later. Sigh. Oh well. So.. we walked down the street until we came across this quaint Victorian mansion that is now a restaurant called Travese. [Continue reading...]
Tagged as: cabernet sauvignon, los gatos, nablopomo, restaurant, travese, voignier, wine
I subscribe to a lot of blogs, and thanks to laziness and procrastination, I get really behind on reading them. There are times that I wonder why I don’t just unsubscribe to most of them if I can’t keep up. But then there are days like today when I have the time to catch up on my reading and I find so many interesting things out there. You may find this surprising, but many of these blogs have nothing to do with food. So today I thought I’d give you a short tour of some of the other things that fill my mind when I’m not dreaming of all of the delicious ways to enjoy food. [Continue reading...]
Tagged as: angry chicken, blogs, craftoholic, crazy aunt purl, ecosalon, ligher footstep, nablopomo, sew mama sew, small steps toward greener lifestyle, tie one on
