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We never got around to making dessert. Dinner was... Roast chicken over bread salad, mixed greens from our garden, and a potato & celery root gratin. There are a few arugula and rosemary flowers tossed into the salad. To drink - 2000 Quivera dry creek cuvee (grenache/mourvedre/syrah/zinfadel blend) from sonoma.

Cilantro is yummy.

Dinner is in the oven, we need to figure out what to have for dessert. We're having roast chicken (zuni recipe), potato & celeriac gratin, and a salad. We've got meyer lemons, pears, raspberries, and all the usual chocolate/cream/eggs/nuts/etc. Anyone got any bright ideas? Preferably something reasonably healthy (or small )

Another cappa... I think they are getting better. This one would be much better if it were in the middle of the cup.

Yeah, we made the gremolata from that recipe - it went well with the dish. This was the first time we've made osso buco so I've got nothing to compare it to other than restaurant dishes.

We more or less used this recipe. It came out pretty well, though I don't think I'd use that recipe again. Most of the time we eat like this, unless we are both feeling lazy - then we eat cereal. We have a freezer full of stuff, great produce available, and we are home most of the time - so we spend a lot of time cooking. edit: yeah... what she said.

Leftovers for lunch... Shepherd's pie made from osso bucco leftover from dinner over the weekend and mashed potatoes from last night.

Olives Yogurt most british food

Cappa #2 : Hopefully the nice weather will hold and we can go out for a bike ride before lunch.

I had four

Today for breakfast: freshly squeezed grapefruit juice, sweet crepes with a honey mascarpone cream filling, and raspberries. It's almost time for more coffee

Y'all are fucking crazy.

Is it just me, or does it seem like my foodblog is being overrun with crazy cat people?

The morning cappa.. I'm not sure if I'm getting better or worse at making hearts in these but at least they taste good.

wow, thanks

The red scallions are just young stockton red onions, we plant them far too closely together and eat the thinnings as scallions. I like them better than scallions - they are much sweeter. We're having our last cappas for the day. After we watch the daily show on the tivo it's time for sleep.

Dinner, courtesy of MsMelkor Pan seared wild pacific salmon in a shallot white wine reduction with asparagus and red scallions on mashed potatoes. Sauteed spinach with garlic and olive oil. 2001 J.J. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese to drink. The salmon came from the chest freezer in the garage - we got a couple of fish from the pier in Bodega Bay before the season ended, and it looks like we'll run out right around the time the season starts again. The asparagus and red scallions came from our garden.

We were running low on decaf beans, and the weather was playing along - so here's a batch of decaf for the espresso machine in a couple of days.

find yourself a restaurant supply place, they usualy have those metro racks for cheap.

I'm snacking on some graham crackers and milk.

When ya pour the milk into the espresso, hold the cup at a slight angle and pour until a white blob surfaces, set the cup down and draw the pitcher across the cup to make the dent in the top of the heart. This is cappa #3 for the day -

The weather has turned around nicely. The drive down to Oakland and the drive home look nothing alike. and on the way back... I had lunch at Pho 84 (17th & Webster in Oakland). A glass of Iced Vietnamese Coffee, some rice, and chicken on a bed of spinach (Ga Cuu Long #41) - the sauce above the plate is lemon & black pepper. I can never get motivated to go anywhere else when I'm at my office in Oakland. It's a one block walk and the food is always excellent.

I'm off to Oakland for a bit, having lunch at Pho 84.

One crooked heart shaped cappuccino... That one went to MsMelkor

Note from up-valley... It is REALLY raining up here! Okay, I'd say gushing. We've got quite a river running down through the vineyard! Your cappuccino sounds really enticing about now! How about a picture?!?!? I'll have to make another - they don't last very long. Back in a few minutes with a pic and another cappa.