“What I” Wednesday: Oh, Hello Autumn!

September 28th, 2011 - posted under: The Food » Food Styles

It’s official. The temperature has dropped 10 degrees. The leaves are suddenly turning, and the gusty wind that’s arrived from nowhere is happy to pluck them from their branches, pick them up and carry them off and away. It’s raining again. So naturally, I’ve been: baking, cleaning, sewing, re-organizing, planning, brooding, and imagining fun new [...]

“What I” Wednesdays: Just Another End-Of-Summer Standard

September 21st, 2011 - posted under: The Food » Food Styles

I know I’m especially susceptible, but geez those peepers just slay me! Another Wednesday and another peek into our little vegan family vittles. PLUS, beginning this week I’m adding a new feature to the Wednesday repertoire! But you’ll have to read through to the end to find out what it is . . . Before [...]

What We Ate Wednesday: Finishing Strong

September 14th, 2011 - posted under: The Food » Food Styles

So far in this series I’ve shown you our Monday-thru-Sunday breakfasting, as well as an entire week’s worth of lunches. Now, we’re wrapping up the trilogy with seven days of dinners. Dinner is always my biggest and my favorite meal, and this time of year I tend to eat high-raw throughout the day, with a [...]

What We Ate Wednesday: And Then I Ate NorCal, Volume II

September 7th, 2011 - posted under: The Food » Food Styles

Oh, UC Berkeley, your elitism is strangely charming! So last week I began recounting our epic Bay Area eating adventures. Today I’ll finish up the saga, including the fanciest-pants meal I’ve ever eaten, also called the-meal-that-should-have-cost-more-than-an-entire-week-of-groceries-back-home. (but didn’t!) (more on that later) Okay! So where were we? Cinnaholic We started our day off right, with [...]

What We Ate Wednesday: And Then I Ate NorCal, Volume I

August 31st, 2011 - posted under: The Food » Food Styles

A few weeks back we took our very first official family vacation. Not “back home”, not a tag-along business trip, not a co-opted weekend away. But a true, for reals, for fun, for relaxing family vacation. It was awesome and exciting and amazing, and also, have you ever taken a really long road trip with [...]