As you know, we just spent a wonderful weekend visiting friends in Paso Robles. Our friends are incredibly wonderful hosts! While we ate out most meals, Molly made us this beautiful and delicious Sunday brunch of scrambled eggs made with roasted potatoes and cheese, cinnamon french toast bake, and a fresh fruit salad. This served …
A Weekend Get-Away to Paso Robles
We just spent an amazing weekend with friends in Paso Robles. I have visited this town in the past, but that was traveling with my daughter’s softball team for a tournament. Tournament weekends are spent at the ball field and looking for restaurants that easily and cheaply accommodate a team and their families for dinner. …
Movie Review: Chef
Last night I saw the movie, Chef, and I gotta’ tell you this movie is a foodies nirvana! The premise of the story is Chef Carl Casper’s (Jon Favreau) culinary creativity is being stifled beyond death at the upscale LA restaurant that he works for. After a lousy review and the pursuing mayhem, he up and …
My Daughter’s Journey to Boston University
Sending my daughter off to college some 3,148 miles away from home was hard; teary-eyed, all-emotional, sad-face hard. Now four years later, I am thrilled to report that my daughter has graduated! So why is there sadness? I have come to love the city of Boston and the excellent friends that she has made while …
Caprese Salad
I was so excited to come home from work and find this package! We recieved our second shipment from our adopted olive tree through Nudo. This olive oil is delicious! My husband and I received this as a wedding gift, and you can read all about this wonderful company in an earlier post called, Owning a …
Ruggles Reese’s Peanut Butter Cheesecake
OMG this cheesecake is absolutely the best! I know I blogged about making this a week ago, but that was before I took a bite of this melt in your mouth light and creamy Reese’s peanut butter cheesecake! And really, I am not a huge fan of the whole chocolate peanut butter craze called Reese’s. …
Italian Antipasto Salad
This salad has been a family favorite for years. Eight years in fact. I know this because my daughter Nicole was in sixth grade when she and I were watching Everyday Italian on the Food Network. She loved the looks of this salad and wanted to try making it. So off to the store the …
Breakfast in a Box – A Homemade Wedding Favor
Everyone loves receiving a party favor! Really, who does not like getting a gift? A favor is just a a little trinket or small memento that adds another layer of fun to festivities. Because I don’t like to collect “things” I usually give favors that are consumable. Items that collect dust drive me crazy! I think gifts …
Anna Marie Jardini Award for Service and Achievement
Enjoy this story told through pictures – I am one proud momma! Two years post graduation, Robert is living and working in Los Angeles. I couldn’t be more proud of the incredible man my son has become. Transparency of Medication Prices
May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Homes: A Book Review
While waiting for a table at one of my favorite restaurants in San Francisco called the Tipsy Pig, I wandered into the bookstore next door on Chestnut Street. I love wondering bookstores! But this day I had a purpose. I had an upcoming vacation, and vacation time is when I have time to read. So …