My Favorite 25 San Francisco Restaurants for 2017
These are my favorite 25 San Francisco restaurants for 2017. This marks my 6th year of publishing this list, and every year it’s my most…
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My Top 25 San Francisco Restaurants for 2016
This is my favorite post to do each year…it’s just so much fun to come up with my top 25 San Francisco restaurants. This year,…
My Top SF Restaurants for 2015
This is my fourth year posting my top restaurant list for San Francisco. (Here’s last year’s post for reference.) It’s my most popular, most shared,…
Explosive Flavors of Thai Swordfish
Last month my husband and I went to Copenhagen for our 10-year anniversary and had a food extravaganza. As written in a previous post, we had…
Touring & Tasting in Sonoma Wine Country
California is probably more well-known for its Napa Valley than Sonoma Valley, but Sonoma is a fabulous place to visit. Less touristy, and therefore less…
Dinner at Noma, the World’s Best Restaurant
You may have heard of Noma, the restaurant in Copenhagen named the world’s number one restaurant 3 of the last 4 years (it ranked 2…
My Favorite SF Restaurants for 2014
Each year since starting this blog, I’ve posted a list of my favorite restaurants in San Francisco, my home town. One of the many things…
Visiting the Amazing Napa Valley
I am one lucky girl…living in San Francisco puts me only an hour away from Napa Valley, oneo f the world’s best wine regions and…
The Fabulous Flavors of Hawaii
We all know and love the tropical flavors of Hawaii — mango, passion fruit, pineapple, guava and so on. It’s pretty hard to beat the…
Summer’s Here…Time for Gazpacho!
I have to say, gazpacho is one of my all time favorite dishes. That beautiful flavor of a ripe, summer tomato married with a touch…
My 2013 List of Favorite SF Restaurants
Some of you who have been reading my blog for a good long time will remember my post of January 2011 with my top restaurant…
Chipotle Rubbed Pork Roast with Peach Chutney (and the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market)
We had my husband’s brother in town with his family from Europe, and my in-laws came out from the East Coast as well. What better…
An All-American 4th of July BBQ (and my mom’s potato salad)
Happy belated 4th of July! What a perfect holiday to gather with friends and family to share a great meal, watch some fireworks and toast…
Other Great Eats in New York City (NY part 3)
I decided to combine the rest of our culinary adventures in New York into one final posting. Not that I couldn’t drag it out to…
Drooling over Eataly (NY part 2)
As promised, I have several posts on my recent eating adventures in New York. This one is dedicated to Eataly. Surely you’ve heard about Eataly….the food…
An All Modern Evening in NY (tech, art, food)
I spent most of last week in New York — one of my favorite foodie destinations! Fortunately, I had my husband along, so we indulged…
The Delicious Tastes of Russian River Valley
Last weekend was my birthday, and we decided to go with our best friends up to the wine country for the weekend. Living in San…
Braised Pork with Tomatillos & Chiles over Polenta
This recipe is one that has a special story…every heard of Sally Schmitt? Probably not, unless you know the full history of the legendary French…
I am a Self-Proclaimed Cheese Whore…
Anyone who has spent sigificant time with me over a meal or cooking together will tell you that I LOVE cheese! I have been known…
A Weekend of “Glamping” (glamorous camping) with a Pretty Nice Menu!
Most people who have met me and even know me reasonably well are shocked when they find out that I actually love camping. May be…