It took several hours, but the first cake I ever made from scratch came together for K’s birthday: From Photo of the Week I used a recipe I found off of Smitten Kitchen, which called for doing lots of crazy things, like getting the butter to room temp and using sour cream for the frosting. [...]
How do you define success in Napa? If you define it by wine purchased, I’d say we did well! Thanks for a friend of a friend having an awesome wine special, we picked up 12 cases of wine, plus some bottles of wine from Grgich and Cakebread, the latter being my perennial favorite Chardonnay of all time. [...]
Last Friday I reached some sort of milestone – surpassed a quarter-century on this planet and had a nice, relaxing weekend to bring it in. My parents, who were in town to visit an Aunt, were able to meet up for breakfast at Stacks on Friday morning. After another hectic day at work (these are [...]
Oh man, one of the best meals over. Getting omakase means you can write your name in the fridge door! Salmon onigiri with bonito flakes ; grilled flounder and 7 other courses = JAPANESE FOOD HEAVEN. Hachi ju Hachi – I can’t wait to go back!
(oops – this was sitting in my drafts folder but I forgot to publish it!) Love hot pot Wednesdays!