It’s probably safe to say that everyone agrees one of the best things about summer is the abundance of gorgeous fruits and vegetables we find at our neighborhood groceries, fruit stands and farmers markets that ultimately end up in our kitchen sinks. Bright and beautiful in color, juicy-delicious, bursting with flavor, it’s fruits and veggies [...]
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Instinctual bread
We are experiencing unusually hot weather here in the midwest. It’s unusual because we have been having a pretty cold summer in general. It’s only the last couple of weeks that have been sweltering! So, while nursing my air conditioner along, the expectation of the next season quickens my baking pulse. I begin to dream [...]
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, Toluca Lake CA
Ca’ Del Sole has long been one of my favorite neighborhood restaurants. Located in a little Mediterranean-style building with washed ‘mustard’ colored stucco walls and pots of geraniums on the outside walls, this is an Italian restaurant with a Tuscan flare. The main dining rooms are chic and inviting with displayed Italian pottery, beautiful framed [...]
Traditions continue
Ever summer, while our daughter is out of school, there are a few things that as a family we always try to do. Go on a camping expedition and head to the Santa Cruz California boardwalk. This year camping never happened and with the summer flying by we thought we better plan our annual trek [...]
A SLEEP OVER IN OJAI
Sometimes when spending time in Ojai, I feel as if I’ve stepped into the enchanted valley where Brigadoon was nestled. Ojai Valley is a jewel box filled with gems such as lavender fields, orange and lemon groves, music under the stars and pink moments off the Topa Topa mountains. The people are warm and friendly. [...]
Sunda, Chicago IL
110 W. Illinois St. Chicago, IL 60654 A new kid on the block in Chicago fine dining, Sunda takes its name from an extension of the geographical continental shelf of Southeast Asia and has crafted as its menu an amalgamation of the various cultures, spices and cooking techniques in the region. Japan, China, Vietnam, the [...]
New Kid On The Block
While tooling around town today, my husband and I decided to try the new brasserie on Ventura Blvd. in our little Studio City, Calif. hamlet. It’s name: Bokado Market-Brasserie (Bokado is Spanish for little tastes or something like that) – Anyway, the restaurant is a Spanish influenced brasserie with an elegant, but simply designed room [...]
Mado
1647 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60647 The tagline for this small, intimate space in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood is “Midwestern farmers, Mediterranean flavors.” They live up to this by utilizing four farms within 50 miles of Chicago to construct an Italian centered menu with influences from everywhere along the Mediterranean coast. Mado is BYOB- fresh [...]
Sunny Side Omelet!
So it was breakfast time, and I was in one of those moods. I was looking for the delicious egg and vegetable combo of an omelet and yet I really wanted the comfort of a nice “dipping-style” (also known as sunny-side-up or over-easy) egg. What to do, I wasn’t hungry enough for both and that [...]
Cool summer drink!
This summer has been more mild than most, but the 4th of July was hot–so hot, that we needed a great drink to cool down with at our BBQ. I knew that watermelon is a good compliment for any BBQ, but I didn’t know what to make. So I turned this great new book: Mix [...]
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