Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. — Charles Dickens (author, social commentator, a.k.a The Inimitable)
Dichelostemma capitatum: Don’t Google Its Common Name
“Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?” — James Montgomery (British poet, campaigner to end child exploitation) The winter rains have blessed us with a bounty of wildflowers. As I headed out to the mountains last Sunday, I hoped that a break in the rain would give me the opportunity to shoot…
Playing with Food: Sardine and Swiss Chard Gratin (or Why My Cat Licked My Shoe)
It all started with an abundance of organic Swiss chard in my community garden. When I spotted aphids on one plant, I knew that it would be a fight to save the crop if they took hold. Instead of whipping out my bottle of insecticidal soap, which would have been fruitless with the rain that…
National Mulled Wine Day: March 3, 2016
Our temps are in the 70s this week. I’ll take my mulled wine over ice with a bit of orange! Wine Wednesday spilling to Mulled Wine Thursday Quote: “Mulled wine, heavy on the cinnamon and light on the cloves. Off with you, me lad, and be lively!” –Henry Travers (as the guardian angel Clarence, It’s a…
Camera Play: Community Garden
Spring is finally hitting the garden.
Wine Quotes
Wine and Age “Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.” — Anonymous “A man not old, but mellow, like good wine.” — Stephen Phillips, Ulysses, III. ii “What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.” — Thomas Moore, National Airs, Spring and Autumn “Alonso of…
Wine Wednesday: Feb. 23, 2016
“Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires the young, makes weariness forget his toil.” — Lord Byron (a.k.a. George Gordon Byron, English poet, frequenter of Berry Bros. & Rudd)
Bunless Oyster Po Boys with Homemade Slaw and Remoulade
Bunless Oyster Po Boys with Homemade Slaw and Remoulade
Playing With Food: Bunless Oyster Po Boys with Homemade Slaw and Remoulade
“Any good kitchen should be stocked up in oysters, shouldn’t they?” — Michael Fassbender (actor, producer, bivalve eater) On the drive south from a weekend in Sonoma, my love and I decided to make a quick stop for Pacific oysters at a seafood wholesaler. A short time later, we were back home with an abundance…
Wine Wednesday, February 17, 2016
“I can hold my alcohol, just like I’m a wine bottle. I dance as fluid as glass, and my heart shatters just as easily.” ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE
Wine Wednesday: February 9, 2016
“What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.” –Thomas Moore in National Airs, Spring and Autumn, st. 1 (English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist)
Making of a Burley Klingon
“Heels and red lipstick will put the fear of God into people.” — Dita Von Teese, on what she’s learned being a burlesque star But then add forehead ridges and bat’leth. You’ll be thanking the stars that you were there. In January, I traveled to Austin to watch my sister perform with the Austin Burlesque Alliance’s…
Living Life Forté 