This was our appetizer for Friday night's Olmsted dinner at our house and a little something I've been making a few times a week now that figs are in season. We can't get enough!! Since we had 14 people over (Cam and I loved getting to know everyone better!) I wanted to make a simple yet special dinner that could be served family-style. We had these crostini, lemon and garlic marinated chicken that Cam grilled, roasted new summer potatoes and beets with fresh pesto for dipping, a big farmer's ... continue reading...
Suz’s Wedding in Lake Tahoe
Suzy is a married laday!! She is one of my best friends from college and our paths continually cross all over the world... we were roommates in college, both studied abroad in Italia, spent Christmas together in Romania, then roommates for a semester in Washington, DC, both moved to DC, she moved to Maui and us to Japan, and now are both back in California again for a short time. We were together for a lot of the ups and downs of our early twenties. I love this girl (and her whole family) and am ... continue reading...
The Beginnings of Our Garden
If you need John Shea, you can find him "helping" Daddy with the beginnings of our raised garden. He especially loves to play with the wood chips (Cam is using them as soil covering -- this was his inspiration!), eating dirt and cracking up while scooting his whole body through the tomato plants. These are not the greatest photos because I had to keep grabbing our little gardener before he pulled a basil plant clear out of the ground. All of the empty spots are where seeds are planted. Cam ... continue reading...
Summer Stone Fruit Sangria
One of my favorite things about this summer has been our amazing local farmer's market in Monterey. Each week, I load up with so much stone fruit from Minazzoli Farms that I think there's no way we could possibly eat it all, but we always do. John Shea devoured three whole peaches by himself today! It is the juiciest, most delicious and ripe fruit we've ever tasted, that I've been adding peaches, nectarines, pluots and plums to just about everything I've been cooking... including this incredibly ... continue reading...
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