My parents came over the weekend, so obviously last week (and by that I mean, Friday afternoon) was a blur of doing some of those house projects I’ve been meaning to do since we moved in, but have not. And a trip to IKEA (which is two hours away, and required some juggling of children (I discovered that Celeste will…
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A Whirlwind Weekend in San Jose
1. I’d take you out for lunch at Freshly Baked Eatery (some of the locals simply call it “The Secret Sandwich Shop”). This place is one of San Jose best kept secrets. It’s tucked into an office building lobby, only open Monday-Friday for lunch, and only accepts cash, but their bread is hot out of the oven and so worth it. You can…
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Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael Moss
Apparently, it’s been over a year since I wrote about a food book (it was French Kids Eat Everything, last August). This is not right. I THINK I’ve probably read some food books between now and then, but now I can’t be certain. It appears that if I haven’t documented something on my blog, I have zero ability to recall…
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Lucky Finds
My mom likes to say I’m the luckiest person she knows. I’ve never bought a lottery tickets, so I can’t prove this theory absolutely, but she does have a point. Mostly, I just seem to very adept at getting smoking deals on stuff (this is an excellent trait when you have an income of approximately $5 a month and MBA…
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Roasted Tomato and Chicken Linguine with Caramelized Onions
So this is the time of year when your tomatoes (and obviously by that I mean MY tomatoes) are either hard and flavorless or little red mush balls. Losers, either way. Roasting tomatoes, though, magically makes both of those problems go away. So bring your sad tomatoes right up for this recipe. I had Ella find all the tomatoes rolling…
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