I'm in a bar in Cooper Landing, while the soundtrack from The Big Chill plays behind the noise of slope workers playing darts. What a fantastic movie!
There are forest fires in the area, so the air is thick with smoke - and heat. It was 85 degrees F in the shade tonight, after dinner, when we went to get ice cream. In the shade! I was sliding off my deck chair with perspiration. I suppose after last summer, I cannot complain.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
So long! So overdue!
I should stop procrastinating on my posts, so that they all aren't titled with such titles. A goal.
Anyhow, we've just come back from a wonderful, wonderful 4 days in San Francisco. So fun! God, I enjoyed the whole bit (except for Thursday afternoon, when we were walking back from the Ferry Terminal, and it was hot, and I was wearing a black turtleneck, and we had a meeting to go to, and I was anxious for that, and I hadn't gotten much sleep, and I was hungry, and, and, and.....).
In any case, what a Fun City. Can't wait to go back. Here are two small pictures:
Anyhow, we've just come back from a wonderful, wonderful 4 days in San Francisco. So fun! God, I enjoyed the whole bit (except for Thursday afternoon, when we were walking back from the Ferry Terminal, and it was hot, and I was wearing a black turtleneck, and we had a meeting to go to, and I was anxious for that, and I hadn't gotten much sleep, and I was hungry, and, and, and.....).
In any case, what a Fun City. Can't wait to go back. Here are two small pictures:
Thursday, January 1, 2009
New Year's Eve
Some photos from last night:
Isn't my apron sweet? I borrowed it from Jim:
Friends socializing...
Jim was chef de amazing. He made bacon-wrapped scallops. These ain't your little storebought tiny frozen blobs, either - nice big ole plump Alaska scallops. (Credit where credit is due: he also made New York steaks, four of them. Yowza!) Here he is basting the scallops with a syringe of butter (I love this man):
We're cookin'! I'm steaming clams in white wine, garlic, and butter; Kristin is washing asparagus. 
Matt brought a bar bag. Not an overnight bag, a bar bag. Good man. He made negronis - here is Ingrid looking a wee bit skeptical:
And here she is tasting it:
Of course I like it! It's a martini! (sorry, Brittania - it's with gin)
Ahhhhhh......guilty pleasures. Kristin and me with Jim's bacon-wrapped scallops - look at those puppies! My "grin" is due to the fact that I had just shoved an entire lovely bacon-wrapped scallop into my maw...
Happy New Year, everyone!!
Isn't my apron sweet? I borrowed it from Jim:
Friends socializing...
Jim was chef de amazing. He made bacon-wrapped scallops. These ain't your little storebought tiny frozen blobs, either - nice big ole plump Alaska scallops. (Credit where credit is due: he also made New York steaks, four of them. Yowza!) Here he is basting the scallops with a syringe of butter (I love this man):
We're cookin'! I'm steaming clams in white wine, garlic, and butter; Kristin is washing asparagus. 
Matt brought a bar bag. Not an overnight bag, a bar bag. Good man. He made negronis - here is Ingrid looking a wee bit skeptical:
And here she is tasting it:
Of course I like it! It's a martini! (sorry, Brittania - it's with gin)
Ahhhhhh......guilty pleasures. Kristin and me with Jim's bacon-wrapped scallops - look at those puppies! My "grin" is due to the fact that I had just shoved an entire lovely bacon-wrapped scallop into my maw...
Happy New Year, everyone!!
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