Archive for the 'Lisa' Category
BLT Pasta
September 9th, 2011By Lisa Last summer, I never pulled up our tomato plants. We had 3 or 4 plants in the ground–Sweet 100s, SunGolds–delicious little bites of summer, that bore fruit until October. (It’s like that here, please don’t hate us.) And then we got busy, and it started to rain, and we spent most weekends at [...]
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, what the kids thought
August 10th, 2011by Lisa Last night, as we were eating our 15th tomato sandwich since returning home, this time in the form of a BLT, I asked Ella and Finn about the best part of vacation food. “DISNEYLAND!” they both screamed. “Really?” I asked. “You liked the food at Disneyland?” “Oh. No.” They both shook their heads. [...]
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 [...]
Saying Yes
July 15th, 2011By Lisa I agree with Caroline, as I suppose, do lots of you. Summer is a time to say yes a little more often. For instance, the other night, even though there was a great spread of salamis, pasta, bread, at our local concert in the park, I said “yes” to ice cream for dinner. [...]
The Breakfast of Champions
July 13th, 2011By Lisa We are big time into the Women’s World Cup right now, which is turning out to be one of the greatest sporting events of the year for us. Amazing female athletes, an amazing US team, little commercialism, or ego, or marketing, and heart-stoppingly dramatic games. The games have been a tremendous source of [...]
Not Just Another Padrone
July 12th, 2011By Lisa These are not the padrones we usually eat all summer long, but ones we actually grew in our garden. They were perfect. If the plants actually start producing, this will save us at least $6 a week. A girl can dream, can’t she?
Kids Breakfast, Tahoe 2012
July 10th, 2011by Lisa There will never be a better meal.