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Bella’s science fair project is going crazy! We might have a couple ready before we leave again on Monday…

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Dinner for 10 randomly selected friends. Where I teach Leslie how to make pasta, I learn how to make Focaccia, and everyone eats a lot!
Spaghetti and Gemili

Fettucini

Baby asparagus, olives (some that I cured from my mother’s neighbor’s tree), chives, truffle oil

Caprese!

Focaccia

Happy Well Fed Men

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For dessert: fresh strawberries on angel food cake. Melted dark chocolate. Freshly whipped cream into nearly butter, with rum.

not bad…

Wednesday night, after Bella, Vera and I had our Kabuki baths, we ran into Dodger at Safeway and came up with a dinner plan: homemade pasta with fresh peas from our Sunday beach excursion off Hwy 92. Vera had three bottles of wine in her backpack already, and we also acquired some spinach, tomatoes, asiago […]

I love to travel. And I love to cook. But it’s hard to do both at the same time. Fortunately, I also love going to new and interesting restaurants, so in that case, traveling with my friends is fun because they all like good restaurants as well. However, when I’m traveling by myself, I […]

went to bed just as the sun was rising and woke up at noon. just as well though since today was a rainy one. i did get out on the bicycle eventually around 5 pm and rode up to where the big park is. very nice indeed and montreal drivers are so courteous! a truck […]

Our first night in Montréal, we had the ultra-decadent dinner at Au Pied de Cochon. No pig’s feet, but we did have the enormous seafood platter with bbq octopus, king crab legs, mussels & oysters of all preparations, sea snails, creamy urchins, and crayfish. Followed by bison tartare, the foie gras duo of a burger […]

Bella picked this out for her morning breakfast: instant oatmeal with strawberries mmmmm…

I love our local Euromix market — I can do nearly all my shopping in Russian now! And they close at 8 pm during the week (6 pm only on sundays).