meat

link love: our 7 links

August 29, 2011

We’re so thrilled to be nominated by Heavenly from donuts to delirium to participate in My 7 Links, an exciting chain-letter kind of thing for bloggers of all sorts. The rules are simple: you get nominated by someone; then you write a post with links to seven of your favorite published stories based on various [...]

Read the full article →

cake and culture: 69th annual World Science Fiction Convention, Reno, NV

August 23, 2011

Located a mere four hours by car from San Francisco, Reno seems a world away. Nestled in a high alpine valley, this playfully tagged, “Biggest little city in the world,” is most famous these days for being the kid-sister to Las Vegas: full of over-the-top casinos and quickie-wedding chapels. In past times, Reno was equally [...]

Read the full article →

cake and culture: Filoli estate, San Mateo County

August 16, 2011

What could be better than a surprise day trip? We’ve a super good friend, John, who told us to free up Saturday for an all-day extravaganza. He didn’t say a thing about our destination until we were riding in his huge Ford SUV on I-280 South of San Francisco. Then he asked the following question: [...]

Read the full article →

matilija poppies at the San Francisco Botanical Garden

July 28, 2011

We went to the San Francisco Botanical Garden on one of those rare fog-free summer days that we occasionally enjoy here. Hegui and I are both completely enchanted by the matilija poppy. These shrubs are really quite enormous and the flowers are huge and lovely. They look like cheery sunnyside-up fried eggs, don’t you think? [...]

Read the full article →

community garden plot update: early summer

July 4, 2011

The weather has been good to us in San Francisco lately. Long days with plenty of sunshine. And in a record-setting event, we even had a couple of days of rain recently to wash way excessive pollen and dust floating in the air. Our community garden plot couldn’t be happier. In addition to the good [...]

Read the full article →

cake and culture: New York City water towers

June 9, 2011

Have you ever noticed those stunning, mostly wooden, rustic-seeming water towers on the tops of buildings in New York? Even if you’ve never been to the Big Apple, you must have seen these in movies or on television. I love them. Like the Empire State Building, Central Park, the Statue of Liberty, and Broadway shows, [...]

Read the full article →

Alexis Lichine’s Wines of France, a work of subtle comic genius

June 8, 2011

La Mission-Haut-Brion claims that it is responsible for getting St. Vincent into trouble. It seems that St. Vincent, the patron saint of vintners, had not been in heaven very long before he was attacked by a terrific thirst and had a yearning to taste again the great wines of France, the Burgundies, the wines from [...]

Read the full article →

“cake and culture:” the delta of the Russian River

May 23, 2011

Today instead of whining about our kitchen, presenting tasty food or writing in our vague prose about the glories of California wine, I’m going to take the lead suggested by Heavenly and write something which I shall loosely label “cake and culture,” specifically, about the Russian River in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. The Russian River [...]

Read the full article →

weirdcombos kitchen update: the miracle of water

May 16, 2011

It has been a while since my last kitchen remodel post. The reason for that was the long (4-plus weeks) wait for the countertops. Well, this past week has been a flurry of crazy activity. Tuesday afternoon, counter installation; Wednesday morning, plumbing; Thursday and Friday, tile installation. So at the end of the week, what [...]

Read the full article →

community garden plot update

April 18, 2011

Spring has finally blossomed here and our garden plot is doing well! Since the last update, besides the ritual of periodically weeding and irrigating, I’ve covered some of the plants with a net to protect them from the voracious appetites of birds and bugs. These veggies are yummy but not for you little beasties. I’ve [...]

Related Posts with Thumbnails

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →