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A friend (Thanks Julie!) brought Mike and I a sampling of cupcakes from Mrs. Delish’s cupcake boutique. She felt they were better than Sprinkles…. Here is what we got: Red Velvet – good frosting & cake but tasted like a cupcake I could make at home. Coconut/Coconut – best of the bunch..loved the toasted coconut [...]
Filed under: Monterey Peninsula, Northern CA, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: baking, cupcakes, monterey, Mrs DeLish's Cupcake Boutique, review, travel | Leave a Comment »
Mike and I were lucky enough to attend the Sunday Grand Tasting event at the Third Annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival courtesy of Foodbuzz our favorite foodie social network. The weather was not as nice as 2009 but that didn’t put a damper on our day. After taking a quick stroll around the [...]
Filed under: Monterey Peninsula, Northern CA, PLACES TO EAT/DRINK | Tagged: 2010, Jamie Lauren, Lexus Grand Tasting, Michael Chiarello, morimoto, Pebble Beach Food & Wine, Richard Reddington | 2 Comments »
Welcome to Foodie Paradise! If you can only go to one event during Pebble Beach Food & Wine this is it. You’ll find a little bit of everything here…famous chefs serving up their tasty bites, 100′s of wines from premiere wineries, cookbook signings, photo ops and panels. The slide show below will show all the [...]
Filed under: Monterey Peninsula | Tagged: cat cora, jacques pepin, Lexus Grand Tasting, michael mina, morimoto, Pebble Beach Food & Wine 2009, thomas keller, tom colicchio, top chef | Leave a Comment »
Mike and I arrived at The Lodge at Pebble Beach ready for an extraordinary 4 course lunch prepared by celebrity Chefs: Ressul Rassallat (Club XIX), Traci Des Jardins (Jardiniere), Richard Reddington (REDD) and Nicole Plue (REDD). The meal would be served in the historic Club XIX restaurant which overlooks the 18th green at Pebble Beach [...]
Filed under: Monterey Peninsula | Tagged: 18th green at Pebble Beach Golf course, Club XIX, Farm-to-Table Lunch, food & wine magazine, Jardiniere, Nicole Plue, Pebble Beach Food & Wine 2009, Ray Isle, REDD, Ressul Rassallat, Richard Reddington, The Lodge at Pebble Beach, Traci Des Jardins | 2 Comments »
As Mike and I arrived in beautiful Pebble Beach we both headed off to our first events. He went to the Vérité tasting and I went to the Thomas Keller cooking demo. For those of you who need an introduction Keller is the renown owner/chef of The French Laundry, Bouchon, Ad Hoc and Per Se. [...]
Filed under: Monterey Peninsula | Tagged: cooking, food, gnocchi, Pebble Beach Food & Wine 2009, RECIPES, The French Laundry, Thomas Keller Cooking Demo | 2 Comments »
**GUEST BLOGGER: MIKE – THE WINE GUY** I usually attend wine seminars with a bit of hesitation. Too many times I have been excited only to have my hopes dashed as I sit for an hour-long “sales pitch” of a particular winery. Nothing could have been further from the truth with the seminar “Vérité Winery [...]
Filed under: Monterey Peninsula, REVIEWS OF PRODUCTS | Tagged: la joie, la muse, le desir, Pebble Beach Food & Wine 2009, Pierre Seillan, sonoma, Vérité Winery – Bordeaux Blends from the Best Sonoma Terroirs | 2 Comments »
Our friends over at FoodBuzz were extremely generous and gave Mike and I tickets to the second annual Pebble Beach Food & Wine extravaganza. This is one of the premiere culinary events in the Country with over 60 celebrity chefs and 250 Wineries. It is the ultimate Foodie weekend and we had a fabulous time! [...]
Filed under: Monterey Peninsula | Tagged: celebrity chefs, cooking, demos, food, food & wine magazine, Pebble Beach Food & Wine 2009, tastings, wine, wineries | Leave a Comment »
