Posted in Breakfast, Food, San Diego, restaurants, tagged restaurants on November 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you happen to be in San Diego this winter and you have a lady to impress, may I offer the following:
Chris surprised me with this amazing meal last week at the Marine Room in La Jolla - you may have seen the restaurant when snorkeling at La Jolla Cove, because it’s literally sitting in [...]
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Food on November 28, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I got to travel up north last week for Thanksgiving, so spent some good time playing games, shopping and eating with the fam. Ahhh. The day I came in, my mother was undertaking a serious challenge: to replicate the amazing burger cake that she’d made for my cousin’s 6th birthday (he’s now 23). Behold, the [...]
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Food, Recipes, Vegetarian, fall on November 13, 2007 | 5 Comments »
It’s time. I had to put another blanket on the bed last week, and I need slippers in the mornings. It’s fall! I can now indulge in a few of my cold-weather Southern-California-vaguely-cool-weather obsessions, so I pulled out two of the biggies last night: butternut squash and pumpkin flavored treats.
The first you already know about, [...]
Posted in Baking, Dessert, Food, Recipes, Vegetarian on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Caaake. I feel like Homer, with drool coming down the side of my mouth as I picture the deliciousness of this thing. Uuuhhhhh Huuuuhhhh…
I swear, sometimes I buy bananas knowing that they’ll sit in the basket and eventually go past the eating stage. Oh well, I’ll think, I guess I’d better do something with them. How about [...]
Posted in Vegetables, fall, halloween on November 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »
What makes pumpkin carving even more awesome, you might wonder? Power tools.
We stole shamelessly from Extreme Pumpkins, because we were so excited about this new art form, but left with about 20 minutes until sundown.
Here’s Chris’ pumpkin, complete with wrinkly face:
Impressive! And I went for the Extreme Pumpkin cover-girl:
Argh. Hungry for pumpkin flesh. Must. Eat. [...]
