TOMATOES TOMATOES I had planned on making roasted broccoli on Sunday night but it was SO HOT I couldn’t bear to turn on the oven.  So instead I picked tomatoes and basil from the garden and turned that into our other side dish. And then made my favorite lentil salad from America’s Test Kitchen Vegetarian Cookbook. I just adore the combo of hazelnuts and chevre and the simple dressing that coats all the lentils.  Superb simple Sunday meal. For some reason I woke up on Monday with the urge to clean.  Luckily for me, the… Read more >

Guess who I spent ALL SATURDAY with?! This big boy and I started the day with a drive to the Bay Area Discovery Museum.  I got all his doses out of the way in the morning so we could play all day without worrying about “rest time”.  And play all day we did! He looks sad here but he was just listening super intently to the Clifford story. And then… He got to meet him! Anyway, we stayed there until 2 pm because I couldn’t pry him away.  I was hungry!  He would have stayed… Read more >

Which of these meals looks like one that was made with Kyle in town??  The sun dried tomato Caesar salad with leftover chicken nuggets???  Orrrrrr the steak skewers with fried shrimp chips and salad??? Yeah, obviously the steak. Because as delish as this dish was, it isn’t exactly glamorous. This guy, however, was REALLY good and certainly looked the part, too. I channeled my friend’s frying skills and didn’t burn the house down! It actually wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be at all!  Kyle captured a photo to send to Hong to show… Read more >