Posted in Food Prepared @ Home, Tasty Tips, tagged food, homemade, pizza, pizza stone, trader joe's, whole wheat dough on April 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mike and I finally broke out the pizza stone we got as an engagement gift (2 years ago!). We decided to make a vegetable pizza with whole wheat crust. I don’t know why we didn’t do this earlier. I loooove pizza. We have it at least 4 times a month. I actually worked at a pizza place for 2 [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Tasty Tips, tagged food, Michael Chiarello, napastyle wine club, wine on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
If you’re looking for an inexpensive wine club to join I urge you to consider Michael Chiarellos NapaStyle Wine Club. Mike and I have been members for 1 year and are extremely happy with our quarterly shipments. We receive the Cucina club which includes 6 bottles (red & white) from around the world for $90! What makes this club [...]
Posted in Random Thoughts, Tasty Tips, tagged food, one pot meal, williams sonoma on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Williams-Sonoma in Los Gatos has a series of cooking technique classes on Sunday mornings before the store opens and guess what? They are FREE. Mike and I went to one entitled One-pot dinners last week. The class was about 45 minutes and the demo was for beef bourguignonne. Our instructor was Brad who had tons of personality. He [...]
Posted in Los Gatos, Tasty Tips, tagged california, food, Los Gatos, resaurant james randall on February 21, 2008 | No Comments »
James Randall is another treasure in Los Gatos. Mike and I went for our first time last weekend. When you walk in you will feel as though you stepped into your parent’s living room. It’s a very small restaurant, dimly lit with candles and a fireplace. This evening the place was filled to capacity (30 [...]
Posted in Southern CA, Tasty Tips, tagged cupcakes, food, la, sprinkles cupcakes on February 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Growing up I was not into sweets. My mom would have to toss my Halloween candy in December because it was still sitting on the floor of my closet. As I have aged things have changed. I now really enjoy desserts. In 2006 Mike and I were in Beverly Hills and as we were driving down [...]
Posted in San Francisco, Tasty Tips, tagged food, restaurant, San Francisco, slanted door, vietnamese on February 5, 2008 | No Comments »
The Slanted Door is a modern Vietnamese restaurant located in the newly renovated Ferry building in San Francisco. It has a nice simple, clean design. If you can get a seat by the window (which we did) it has great views of the bay. Along the main wall to maximize space tables are situated tightly. [...]
Posted in Saratoga, Tasty Tips on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
La Fondue in Saratoga recently re-opened down the street from the old location. The restaurant is much bigger and the dark midevil theme is gone . When you walk in you will not recognize the place. I think the only thing they kept from the old spot were the fondue pots. The new decor is modern [...]
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