It's summertime. In Arizona. It's hot. I swear it's 142F in the shade. It's so hot even the notorious Gila RIver Ant Rustlers are staying in the shade. I needed something to drink. Something cold. Something wet. (and something non-alcoholic…
I am in San Francisco today attending SixApart's Business Blogging Seminar. I had some time to kill and it was getting close to lunch time. I wandered into the Ferry Terminal and browsed through the farmers market and found this…
I was doing some shopping in the local gourmet supermarket last weekend. It is still warm here in Arizona, and I was looking for something cool, sweet, and refreshing. I picked up a bottle of Hank's Orange Creme Soda. Boy.…
What would a cooking blog be without a St. Valentines Day post? This year I decided that instead of taking my wife out for dinner, I would make her a nice dinner at home. It turned out to be much…
Restaurant Jeane D' Arc is apparently a well kept secret. Housed in the basement of the Cornell Hotel de France, 715 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94108, the hotel and restaurant have been run by the same family for forty…
We visited Cafe Claude in San Francisco for lunch. It's a little hard to find. From the south side of Bush and Grant - across the street from the Chinatown Gate - walk east (downhill) and you will come to…
Our first meal on our San Francisco vacation was at Cafe de la Presse, located on the southeast corner of Grant and Bush - right across the street from the gate to Chinatown. This is the French area of San…
I am a sucker for specialty salts. I use kosher salt in most of my cooking, but I have some Celtic Grey Sea Salt that I use frequently. I was in Plate It Up! the other day and Heather pointed…