Archive for the 'eating out' Category
Learning to Eat Ceviche
September 27th, 2011By Lisa On Friday evening, we were on our way for tacos, when all hell broke loose in the car. It was 5:30 pm. My 7-year-old son had just finished an intense 90-minute soccer practice. During this time his sister had been kicking the ball around with a few teammates. It was the end of [...]
Road Trip Restaurants
August 17th, 2011by Caroline Like most families, our family’s road trips have usually meant packing a cooler and handing sandwiches and snacks over a shoulder into the back seat, stopping only for quick gas and bathroom breaks. Traveling with kids, you hesitate to break the rhythm of a trip; sure, sometimes when the kids were much younger [...]
Saying Goodbye to the Kid’s Menu
August 15th, 2011by Caroline When Lisa told me about her family’s road trip plans, I was envious (the sun! the stars! the Missions! the meals!) and then, instantly, dubious on the one point she was nervous about herself: the meals. Two weeks of restaurant meals. Forty-two restaurant meals. With two kids. At (among other places) several theme [...]
42 Meals: Miguel’s Jalapeno Cream Sauce
August 12th, 2011by Lisa How do you choose a restaurant in a strange town? Sometimes we’ve relied on suggestions from friends who have come before. Sometimes we have a destination restaurant we’ve read about in a paper or magazine. Sometimes we just wing it, selecting a restaurant based on location, menu, and my gut. But we’ve also [...]
42 Meals: A Vacation Odyssey, Surviving Theme Parks
August 9th, 2011by Lisa It’s no secret that food at theme parks, generally speaking, sucks, is lousy. The food lowpoint of our vacation was not, however, what any of us ate or didn’t eat, but the moment when we were standing in the brunch line at our hotel, which was full of great, fresh food, and my [...]
42 Meals: A Vacation Odyssey, Breakfast
August 4th, 2011by Lisa The force was with them even though they hadn’t eaten breakfast Our kids, like many, take breakfast seriously. They eat shortly after waking up and are used to a fair amount of variety: porridge, eggs many ways, waffles, pancakes, cereal, sweet rice, granola….lots of whole, fresh fruit. Since we were staying in hotels [...]
42 Meals: A Vacation Odyssey, The Overview
August 3rd, 2011By Lisa We’ve just returned from our annual family vacation, which this year involved a long an epic road trip from the Bay Area to San Diego, one of the most southern parts of our state. Our initial destination was ComicCon in San Diego, which was a blast & included a preview of the upcoming [...]
Eating Out
May 10th, 2011By Lisa I didn’t really want to do anything for Mother’s Day, which I feel pretty ambivalent about. Aside from an exciting, early morning soccer game for Ella, I had no plans, and I wanted to keep it that way. I thought a nap might be in order. Later, I just didn’t feel like cooking [...]
Fondue: A Cautionary Tale
January 25th, 2011by Lisa Last summer Ella’s grandparents took her to see a regional production of Annie and then out to dinner at a fondue restaurant. She loved the show. (Annie was a very close runner-up for the Halloween costume even though, in the end, Hermione won out.) But the restaurant? Well, we’ve heard about that restaurant [...]
Shitake Mushroom Dumplings
December 24th, 2010by Caroline When Tony and I were dating, we used to eat pretty frequently at a nearby restaurant, Eos. It’s got a lovely Asian-influenced menu, with plenty of fish and vegetarian choices for us. We used to order broadly off the menu until we realized that we really love the shitake mushroom dumplings the best, [...]