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I finally upgraded my old Dell Latitude C610 laptop from 6.06 to 8.04. I’d been wanting to for a while now but never had the time. Yesterday I saw the offer in my updates and thought, sure… Then it said this will take 8 hours and download 1 GB of data. Eeks. Oh well, I […]

Bella and I are watching Season 2 of Project Runway and we’re sad to see Daniel kicked off in the lingerie show. His was the only set that looked like sexy lingerie! Santino’s was truly the ugliest, but he is a good designer even though his attitude is really ugly, and I […]

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 […]

You gotta love a restaurant that sends you a thank note and a recipe!
I posted our menu here. Ok, I think they moved to the head of charts…
Bella  asked if we could go to moto again last night during our layover in Chicago. I hope they remember us…

 
Chef Homaro Cantu, Owner Joseph De Vito and […]

wow, there are now some real options available for vegetarian food & clothing in Russia, land of meat with a side of meat.

We took a beautiful 6 hour hike today, climbing over 3000 feet vertical (starting at an elevation of over 8000 feet), first along the bear creek trail to the waterfall, during which we were caught in a pretty good rain fall. Then we ascended even higher up the wasatch trail, and after about 4 hours […]

Passport control almost didn’t let us through… he wanted me to show Bella’s birth certificate or somehow prove I was her mother. I told him no one had ever asked for that in 10 years of traveling together, and that he could compare the passport stamps to see that. He did and […]

Only a few days left here in Italy so I’m not feeling like doing much more shopping or major cooking (unless it’s to get rid of leftovers), but when I’m in Cambridge with Alisa next week, I really want to make this Heirloom Cherry Tomato Tart.
Too bad Jenn’s harvest is on the […]

David Lebovitz continues to crack me up and make the most profound observations about the differences between the Bay Area and Europe:
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“In spite of their alleged laissez-faire, free-wheelin’ attitudes, San Franciscans are not quite the wild-and-crazy bunch you might think. Like…yes, you have the right to be nude, but I have the right not to […]

i’m not a big fan of apples by themselves, but i do have a fondness for applesauce… it’s definitely a comfort food and childhood memory. So we’ve had this big bowl of apples sitting on the counter since March from the Deployed ordeal (the production assistant had made a costco run so we have cases […]