Anyone[*] want any pots and pans?

We have a whole lot of pots and pans that are perfectly usable, except that they don't work with induction stoves (which we now have). Free to a good home!


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After feasting on delicious Smitten ice cream and stopping in to Miette on a recommendation of several chefs (no small recommendation, but we have yet to try our yield) across the street, and before stopping in to Fatted Calf Charcuterie (which we just happened to park right outside -- and, well, charcuterie! How could we not stop in?), I dragged ( Read more... )

Today, we drove to San Francisco, met up with some folks from Grubly and tried Smitten ice cream from their brand new store (? stand? kiosk?) in Hayes Valley where they make ice cream to order using liquid nitrogen and pretty spiffy machinery of their own design.


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Today was Starbucks' "Free Pastry Day". The idea being, free pastry of your choice with purchase of a drink, up to 10:30am ( Read more... )

I decided to try out cupcakes from Kara's Cupcakes in Palo Alto's Town and Country Mall. We love Sprinkles' cupcakes, but thought we ought to at least try the competition ( Read more... )

I posted an update on Facebook:

Stephen Jacob made, for dinner, Leberkäse mit Ei ... Nürnberger Bratwurst ... and port-glazed sauteed mushrooms (thanks again cooksillustrated.com for the mushroom recipe).

I got a request to share the mushroom recipe, and this was going to be an awfully long response for a comment, so I figured ... LJ post ( Read more... )

I made reference elsewhere to us making the best brussels sprouts ever. Again. (Ok, so I may have deliberately mis-spelled EVER for emphasis). I was asked to spill the beans -- sprouts? -- about how, so since this is more of a Post with a capital P, I figured here would do ( Read more... )

So, loosestrife wrote about our trip to lunch yesterday ... so I don't have to!

Ingredients:

1. Tomato Basil Bread from Panera
2. Smoked Duck Salami from Village Imports (I miss their Open Warehouse days...)
3. Etivaz cheese that I brought back personally from Paris! (last December)

Steps:1. Toast tasty bread lightly on each side ( Read more... )

Friday, lunch: Curry, Beef don, Yakitori (Shin-Sen-Gumi, Gardena ( Read more... )