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Published: Friday, June 30, 2010

Last weekend was stifling, with the thermometers age 100 degrees and the thick enough to choke a person. I would spend the day out of the apartment, A/C-less.And so, HOB, SSOB (husband and stepson of blogger) and I spent a long afternoon at Costco warehouse, basking, cool surf books, CDs, buy bulk quantities of food, enjoy delicious hot dogs are cheap but not when they wander around the aisles, we went home and more. After 10 minutes of being inside, we were miserable, sweat, so we threw our swimsuits on strong public pool nearby. Top overlooking the city, were a breeze a dream come true, we swam up we will be deleted. We were hungry and around 5, although he thought the apartment warm, we had to do the will of God our way back.

On our way back home I explained that we simply HOB could not make the apartment warm all by turning the oven would have to be performed entirely outside of the evening. It is not. We never did a whole evening, so I went over the bed and access to the Internet for ideas. Soon, our menu: barbeque chicken came to light, filled with grilled tomatoes and grilled potatoes pouches. I put chicken Grill HOB responsible and begin to work more. Stuffed Tomatoes tomatoes were agricultural market was already cored, scraped of seeds. Inside was a mixture of cooked orzo pasta with goat cheese, basil, onion and green. Top were drizzled with olive oil and then are with Parmesan. Pouches are potatoes recipe I learned while visiting IOB (in-laws of blogger) last summer. Potato raw thin sliced are square of aluminum foil. Sliced onions, garlic, Rosemary, salt and pepper and olive oil are placed within the prior also foil sealed up into the keep. And that was it. Prep my dinner was done. Pouches potatoes go on the grill with chicken, tomatoes need only approximately 10 minutes. After doing the chicken barbeque sauce, sticky, it's time to eat.The chicken was perfect; juicy, sweet pink stained with sauce, with smoke flavor. potatoes were soft, saturated with flavors of onions, Rosemary, tomatoes were smoked, delicious warm goat cheese with oozing down sides. Sitting outside on the terrace in the heat of the 90 +, we enjoyed one of the best meals we had eaten all summer. Even notoriously picky SSOB eaten dinner with keeping your knees (sans tomato)! Usually, on this day, I never reach for a bottle of red wine, but I don't like my case, so I chilled Beverino slashed open a bottle of cold. This was a divine with flavors of the grill.

 

Later, I did a strawberry shortcakes where we had Sun terrace as them. From the heat, we were still ?????? sticky with chlorine. But we were in the House and we were, we were together. It was really hot today, miserably. But I couldn't I had enjoyed it more.

-Erica Martinez

Read MoreCertain events call celebration. by Hillary, I mean nice evening out with wine, by candlelight. Once this is the first anniversary date snuck HOB. smartly (husband of blogger) I and so, only days before the big day, I was researching these restaurants, reading reviews, and hounding my colleagues in the restaurant for recommendations ... MoreI read consider myself adventurous eater. I suppose he began when he was young and I look forward to a very rare times when GOB (grandmother blogger) make a traditional Mexican menudo soup served on special occasions ... MoreWhen first I moved away from Southern California and the East Coast, I don't understand what this challenge is to find a great tasting fruits and vegetables. After all, in the land of sunshine each year, it's easy to find corn in November ... MoreI reading can barely wait to leave work on Monday. HOB (husband of blogger) came home after his work took him away for too long. nice evening out was appropriate, but the food was the HOB was daily on eating medium of almost 3 weeks; extra raw meal, the House was right ... Read More

Homecoming

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Published: Friday, August 20, 2010 

I hardly can wait to spend working on Monday. HOB (husband of blogger) came home after his work took him away for too long. A nice evening out was appropriate but HOB there was food every day on eating medium of almost 3 weeks; extra raw meal, the House was okay. Since he was missed out with some of the best weeks of the year, the farmer's market, I decided to list some of its bounty for dinner homecoming. Ricotta gnocchi menu with brown butter, chanterelle mushrooms, corn from the cookbook lovely as dinner Saturday at Lucques by Suzanne Goin. When I finally finished work day I came home to begin work on the gnocchi. Ricotta gnocchi made ricotta cheese, flour, eggs. When everything is integrated, ball, then cut into sections 4, and then these trimmings half; each half then rolled into a snake and, finally, they are cut in pieces in. Yes, it took time. At first, I took my in pieces of dough rolled them along the tines of a fork, in an attempt to make them look beautiful and authentic, but after much frustration, failure has been my pieces in with no signs of logs in tine. Not very beautiful, but I would rather see them as "rural". The logs were then can into boiling water, dropped out, and set aside olive oil until the sauce was prepared. It was around the time I was ????? shallots with HOB arrived home. Was still a good 30 minutes before dinner was ready, so I went to Prep unpacked, HOB. To make the sauce, chanterelles, nutty are browned butter, olive oil and set aside. More butter is melted, heated until it becomes a nutty, Brown, and tons of fresh sweet corn, shallots, Sage, thyme corn cooked dishes right up. Gnocchi cooked mushrooms poured into a pan and everything he dropped until coated. Instead, I was a huge salad sliced tomatoes, mozzarella cheese will show fresh. Drink wine bottle uncorked, we pop. After all, this was a celebration. HOB was satisfied with homemade sandwich tuna fish, so the fact that he was on top of the meal was ooohing ahhing isn't surprise. I agree, it was very good; corn cooked completely was sweet, nutty, buttery yeast were, but I think the packet was only slightly too heavy for the summer. It was cold outside, I think the meal was divine, but my little logs of cheese, flour belly like a rock sat.Maybe I'm over the handling of the dough? Tomatoes can be some relief but the real star of the wine was, my crop. dryness, liver of butter gnocchi like a knife in my mouth has been refreshed after each exhalation.This would make gnocchi? absolutely again. But wait until the temperature drops at least 20 degrees.

The next night, HOB and I went for dinner. Unfortunately, it was mediocre at best.

Read MoreCertain events call for a celebration.By Hillary, I mean nice evening out with wine, candle-lit.Once this is the first anniversary date snuck HOB. smartly (husband of blogger) I and so, only days before the big day, I was researching these restaurants, reading reviews, and hounding my colleagues in the restaurant for recommendations ... MoreI read consider myself adventurous eater. I suppose he began when he was young and I look forward to a very rare times when GOB (grandmother blogger) make a traditional Mexican menudo soup served on special occasions ... MoreWhen first I moved away from Southern California and the East Coast, I don't understand what this challenge is to find a great tasting fruits and vegetables. After all, in the land of sunshine each year, it's easy to find corn in November ... Read MoreHOB of (husband of blogger) task sometimes takes it away to distant places for long periods of time for taking out ... and wrong, right?. me, there is something fundamentally provides about cooking a meal nice myself, eating real boards against outside takeout containers ... Read More

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Published: Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Of HOB (husband of blogger) task sometimes takes it away to distant places for long periods of time. Time for take off and eat, right?Wrong. me, there is something satisfying about cooking a meal is a nice myself, eating real boards against outside takeout containers. When I'm alone, I relish journeys very market of peasant, strolling around, deciding what to make for dinner. On one trip, I wanted to make the Ratatouille, but ended up buying fruit and much more for me for this dish. And so began my weekend, cooking 1 quickly.

After I arrived home from the market, in the afternoon, dried fruit and washed my and my iPod, put on the shuffle and began working on my Ratatouille. I have never done this before and I was excited about summer dish to give it a try. My recipe called Zucchini, eggplant, onions, tomatoes, anchovies, thyme, basil, garlic, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, cooked vegetable with each separately and then heated up integrated, soft, melting stew made of grace. Hearing Ratatouille accepts only better as it sits, it can be set aside and then refrigerated it for dinner the next day.

That night, I am a piece of salmon with oven roasted tomatoes filled with point, and a garden salad and bread on the side of simplicity is bliss. ". The salmon was only seasoned with olive oil, salt and pepper at the tomato was stuffed with a mixture of goat cheese, cooked orzo, basil, onion. I was at the top of the salad with cherry tomatoes near-candy-taste which was picked up at the farmer's market, toasted almond shallot vinaigrette. Bread and dough was ??????? local from the outside, soft in the center of pillowy. Drink Fiorella, dry, light rose wine that complimented predilection for all the shiny ??????? of my meal and even surprisingly stream directly into my dessert of oven-roasted peaches and topped with whipped cream hand. HOB poor, I think he told me he had a sandwich Yunnan that night.

Time rolled around the next evening I could hardly wait to try the Ratatouille. It doesn't look like a gloriously colorful picture Cookbook ... at this point more like thick stew. However, tastes, were glorious as they come. I heated slightly on the stove, poured it over some orzo pasta and then topped it crumbled goat cheese. Each animal was like taking a bite of sunshine; I can still taste each vegetable but they also melted together in a rich, hearty. Goat cheese flavours are served to expand even more. I did my wine with Ratatouille but truthfully say that a variety of wines to be delicious with French masterpiece, from crisp whites to red ???????.

The third and last supper and the utilization of agricultural market was my finds the simplest of them all: omelet spice with Swiss cuisine. I was never on the market of eggs until the last ride. When I opened the carton House, I was glad to find eggs Brown, white, even the woodwork, the baby blue! When I cracked his two open I found two yolks are bright orange, nothing like a neon yellow color, sometimes from the eggs can be found in the supermarket. They already look delicious. I get them with a little salt and pepper, some chopped chive whipped.Over low heat melted butter, I poured slowly within the egg, a little stirring and pushes the edges and the Pan so that the egg into a hot pan ???? fell to cook.After a few minutes was the bottom, the top was simply custardy plumage. I folded and placed it in the omelet near where I have my cuisine with olive oil, garlic, chilli flake. Now, many people think that the eggs are eggs. how much could they taste different from each other? Trust me, there's a difference. These eggs were divine. I took a few bites, want to appreciate the omelet is longer than that ordinarily has lasted.I sipped ??????? oaky, it worked.The wine was just enough so that buttery complemented the eggs, fruit flavor notes were very good with them bitter.

I write this, the HOB is still not merely due to come home in under a week which gives me only one additional week. I know exactly what to do.

Read MoreCertain events call celebration. by Hillary, I mean nice evening out with wine, by candlelight. Once this is the first anniversary date snuck HOB. smartly (husband of blogger) I and so, only days before the big day, I was researching these restaurants, reading reviews, and hounding my colleagues in the restaurant for recommendations ... MoreI read consider myself adventurous eater. I suppose he began when he was young and I look forward to a very rare times when GOB (grandmother blogger) make a traditional Mexican menudo soup served on special occasions ... MoreWhen first I moved away from Southern California and the East Coast, I don't understand what this challenge is to find a great tasting fruits and vegetables. After all, in the land of sunshine each year, it's easy to find corn in November ... MoreI reading can barely wait to leave work on Monday. HOB (husband of blogger) came home after his work took him away for too long. nice evening out was appropriate, but the food was the HOB was daily on eating medium of almost 3 weeks; extra raw meal, the House was right ... Read More

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Published: Friday, July 23, 2010

Important wine club members: we want to continuously receive exceptional handling service each time you visit us.To make sure you always have the opportunity to the full benefits in the Smokehouse Restaurant, a wine club member application are opening a new ticket.

As a wine club member, you receive a "the front of the line break" at the restaurant. When you and your party, your hostess seated post card welcome this card to your table. Member's name, include the date and all special event might be, if not more than to spend the day relaxing in the country.When your server comes by to greet you with this card, rather, they see that you are a member, and thus to avoid any confusion. entertain completes submission you and your guests bouche, widely and your 10% discount on your room account.

We understand that sometimes members are "check-up" three times, on tasting room host station, and then sometimes near their desktop. We want to streamline this process to make the day more personal and unique country with us.

As always, we thank you for your continued support and look forward to welcoming you at the next time you visit us.Your table is waiting for you with us!

To see the menu or visit the Restaurant section of our Web site.

Read MoreCertain events call celebration. by Hillary, I mean nice evening out with wine, by candlelight. Once this is the first anniversary date snuck HOB. smartly (husband of blogger) I and so, only days before the big day, I was researching these restaurants, reading reviews, and hounding my colleagues in the restaurant for recommendations ... MoreI read consider myself adventurous eater. I suppose he began when he was young and I look forward to a very rare times when GOB (grandmother blogger) make a traditional Mexican menudo soup served on special occasions ... MoreWhen first I moved away from Southern California and the East Coast, I don't understand what this challenge is to find a great tasting fruits and vegetables. After all, in the land of sunshine each year, it's easy to find corn in November ... MoreI reading can barely wait to leave work on Monday. HOB (husband of blogger) came home after his work took him away for too long. nice evening out was appropriate, but the food was the HOB was daily on eating medium of almost 3 weeks; extra raw meal, the House was right ... Read More

There is always room for the meat and potatoes

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Created: Thursday, June 05, 2010

Is no brainer for many people daily dinner must include some form of meat, potatoes. However, at this time of year, these evening two staples almost disappear from my table, not because you did not enjoy them, but because the summer bounty star play flamboyant, simply be: tomatoes will show colorful soft Zucchini, sweet corn, meat ???????, abundance of fruits are so much, delicious. Not to mention the fact that they only appear for farmer's markets for several months but brilliant. While I crave food rich in autumn, winter, I want to be refreshed and invigorated in the summer, and do these foods only trick.

As fate has a sunny day with HOB (husband of blogger) last week, I see a nice steak most men: porterhouse red giant, next to the well marbled. strip steak, fillet it was thick. I looked at HOB and asked, "How about steak night?" he smiled. Rates at our choice, praised the city that this particular local cutting meat came from the surrounding farm, was better than some grass-fed steaks, Ben that he ate. In our mind, we have snagged him porterhouse before anyone else can beat us at the butcher 's.

Once back home, I put the grill HOB responsible, meat, I need to work on both sides. We decided not to fancy sauces or garnishes; only salt and Pepper Steak. We grilled sourdough bread rubbed much with garlic cooked before it at the top of the slices with a mixture of sungold tomatoes will show, Basil and olive oil and fresh ?????? bruschetta. I sealed pouches until some potatoes (potato, onions, garlic, olive oil, Rosemary, salt and pepper sealed up in a foil pouches), threw them on the grill HOB brought out before the steak. The latest Cook things were thick slices of Zucchini, squash, HOB barely found a caveman-flesh.

Smells came off the grill gift torturous, but finally, it's time to eat Grilled Zucchini I dressed with Lemon Vinaigrette, shaved cheddar, almond, pine nut and serves dinner.HOB took the Gaza Strip, while I got the fillet. now, many people insist the best cut of steak is the Strip or perhaps a delicious ribeye due to being fat marbling, but must say that my favorite (outside the great Hanger Steak) filet mignon and a roast. There is almost no fat being the same, but something so beautiful about rare filet very definitely that melts in your mouth like butter. It was ???????. Drink, we drink Chianti bold still ????? was outstanding with our meat. He even was great with potato Rosemary scented.

What I learned is that there is still room for potatoes and meat during the summer, as long as something ??????? side.On second thought, no, I was happy with this wine alone fillets.

Read MoreCertain events call celebration. by Hillary, I mean nice evening out with wine, by candlelight. Once this is the first anniversary date snuck HOB. smartly (husband of blogger) I and so, only days before the big day, I was researching these restaurants, reading reviews, and hounding my colleagues in the restaurant for recommendations ... MoreI read consider myself adventurous eater. I suppose he began when he was young and I look forward to a very rare times when GOB (grandmother blogger) make a traditional Mexican menudo soup served on special occasions ... MoreWhen first I moved away from Southern California and the East Coast, I don't understand what this challenge is to find a great tasting fruits and vegetables. After all, in the land of sunshine each year, it's easy to find corn in November ... MoreI reading can barely wait to leave work on Monday. HOB (husband of blogger) came home after his work took him away for too long. nice evening out was appropriate, but the food was the HOB was daily on eating medium of almost 3 weeks; extra raw meal, the House was right ... Read More