Archive for March, 2007
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Avocado Ahi Towers
We had a dinner party last night at Casa Eades for a group of Mike’s golfing buddies and their wives. I knew some of the group, had casually met others, and didn’t know a couple of them before last night’s gathering, which can make for a bit of a challenge when devising a menu in this day and age of nutrition Nazi’s and food freaks who can’t eat this, don’t eat that.
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
I’ll Be Singing in Rome; Come along if you dare!
Those of you who have been long-term readers of my darling husband’s blog will no doubt recall that he posted a few blogs (click here and here) from Vienna, Prague, and Budapest in the summer of 2005 when we were touring over there with the Santa Barbara Choral Society, the chorus I sing with.
4 Comments » - Posted in music, travel by mdeades
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Over the Top on Organic
While pushing our way up one aisle and down the next through the milling throng at the recent Natural Foods EXPO West, sampling this and that, I had to do a double take at one stall that read “Certified Organic Cotton Candy”.
Huh?
But, there, indeed, beneath the sign was the classic stainless steel centrifuge in a [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in food and food products, rants by mdeades
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Foiled Again: Packet Cooking Convenience
A recent article by Jim Romanoff that got picked up from the AP in our local paper took me back. It was titled “Cooking in packets is healthy, flavorful and mess-free fare” and it instantly transported me back about 20 years to when our sons were young and I was cooking dinner nightly for a family of five.
3 Comments » - Posted in recipes by mdeades
Sunday, March 11th, 2007
My Oh My Oh Meyer Lemons on a Pizza?
Our local paper picked up a piece a week or two ago by Amy Culbertson titled “Infusing winter meals with exotic appeal” touting the glories of Meyer lemons and offering two delicious-sounding recipes for using them.
4 Comments » - Posted in food and food products, recipes by mdeades
Monday, March 5th, 2007
I Never Met a Tomato Soup I Didn’t Like
For Christmas this year, our son and his family gave us two tickets to Cirque du Soleil. The catch was that we had to travel to Dallas to collect our present, which we did early in February, when the ‘Corteo’ show happened to be there the same weekend as our younger grandson’s 5th birthday party.
3 Comments » - Posted in dining, travel by mdeades
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
The Perils of (grand)Parenthood
As faithful readers of my blog will no doubt have already learned, I think that being a grandparent is the best and most rewarding job ever created. It may also be the most hazardous.
