A Week in Cell Phone Food Pictures #3

In an effort to eat healthier I have a serving of vegetables topped with low fat cheese and a sunny side up egg for breakfast.  Usually it's accompanied by a cup of espresso from our new cappuccino maker. My husband's mom stopped in at Los Olivos to buy these ginormous strawberries from the local farm.  They were huge, delicious and juicy. ...

A Week in Cell Phone Food Pictures #2

99 Ranch makes these lunches to go for about $5.  This was roasted duck with rice and baby bok choy.  Actually, is was all the vegetables in the dish, a third of the rice and a fourth of the duck.  My brother ate the rest. This was my dinner the other night when I was fending for myself.  Mixed greens, sauteed shrimp, softened tomatoes...

A Week in Cell Phone Food Pictures

At the Ostrich Farm in Solvang I picked up this Emu egg to bring home to my egg loving family.   Here it's pictured. It's equivalent to 8-10 regular eggs. On St. Patrick's day, to celebrate my married Irish roots, we met up with friends at the Crab Pot in Alamitos Bay where the Corned Beef and Cabbage was $1 a plate, green beer $2 a cup and...

A Weekend Trip To Solvang: Stolpman Winery

My first experience with Stolpman was over at the Main Street Wine Cellar in Seal Beach for a Meetup.com Wine get together.  The father-son duo presented their wines in a most charismatic way that made me ache for a trip up to checkout the Central Coast again.  That was a year ago and aside from what I remember about the Family that owns this winery,...

A Weekend Trip To Solvang: Fess Parker Winery

I'm no stranger to the Central Coast.  In fact, in my past life working finance in school construction at least a couple time a month I would hop on a Cessna to Santa Maria to meet with clients. I got to try the wonders of Santa Maria Tri-Tip and the fantastic Mexican food that rivals the best places in Los Angeles County.  Stops into San Luis Obispo...

Saturday Morning Rain Is Falling

Last Saturday DH and I were supposed to walk to the Farmer's Market until nature intervened and we went to Jack's for breakfast instead.Biscuits, gravy, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns and eggs. No, I am not a farmer. Yes, I did give DH the bacon like a dutiful wife. No, I still couldn't finish even half of all this fo...

3 Foods You Should Try Despite What You've Heard

I was reading this insane article by Dave Lieberman on OC Weekly that literally made me tear up a little over the sad state of foodie affairs in Southern California.  Did you know there are still people who refuse to try Toro?  But what did I expect from Orange County, where one of the famed Housewives actually spit out Foie Gras.  Say what?! ...