Archive for the 'eating out' Category
Dessert
November 15th, 2008by Caroline
I’m surprised to find I haven’t written about dessert yet in this forum, since I have a lot to say about the subject. And despite how healthy I try to keep my family, we certainly don’t avoid dessert. We’re just as likely to make an afternoon project of making cookies as making paintings, and [...]
Berries, II
September 22nd, 2008posted by Lisa
Caroline’s gorgeous post about berries highlighted one fundamental way that our families are different. We write about the very many ways that our family food cultures overlap in our introduction and some of the ways that we don’t. We thought a lot about cooking and meat and picky eaters. But we didn’t think [...]
One Way to Cook a Pig
August 30th, 2008posted by Lisa
There’s no way to soft peddle this one: We like the luaus.
Last year, we attended a really terrific one at the Grand Hyatt Kauai: great food, fun entertainment, and an unparalleled site in the garden at the edge of the beach. The appeal was doubled by the fact we could walk there, so [...]
Scenes from a week of gourmet eating
August 27th, 2008posted by Caroline
Even the local fish ate well:
However, Eli always stuck to the familiar, alternating between two meals: pb&j and cereal with milk:
Unfamiliar Waters
August 25th, 2008posted by Caroline
After a week in Paris, we headed south for a week unlike any we’d ever experienced (or likely will again). To celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary, my parents gathered our family on a barge that toured rivers and canals in the south of France. We were the only passengers, cared for by a [...]
A Tale of Three Restaurants
August 15th, 2008posted by Caroline
In Paris, we rented an apartment, went to the market and fixed nearly all our own meals. But we wanted to take the kids out for a meal, just once, pretty much just to say we did.
We carried several guidebooks that included sections on kid-friendly restaurants, but too often kid-friendly meant a chain [...]
What (not) to do in restaurants
August 10th, 2008posted by Lisa
We love Plantation Gardens, where we stayed last year for a week. The condo was extremely pleasant, but the real revelation were the grounds and the restaurant, which is one of the best places we’ve found to eat out on the south shore of Kauai.
The Moir gardens, which border the restaurant are [...]