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CALIFORNIA DREAMING
Throughout the Summer and Fall we occasionally host wine lunches and dinners at our winery for special guests and wine lovers. Today I am preparing dinner for an adventurous group of 30 world travelers...
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SCRAMBLED EGGS WITHOUT ISH
I grew up in Petaluma, CA , a sweet little river town about 49 miles north of San Francisco. In its’ day, Petaluma was famous for being The Egg Basket of The World. It even had a semi pro football...
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PETALUMA PEACH TART
As I’ve mentioned before, I grew up in Petaluma, a small town in Sonoma County before Sonoma and neighboring counties embraced the monoculture of the grape. Sure there are still lots of apples,...
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MANGO AND PROSCIUTTO PIZZA
A first course of prosciutto wrapped around fruit like melon is a classic. To make the course a little more playful, I decided to design a pizza that took it’s place. Mangos are sweeter and juicier...
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PEACH PIE JAM
It was a race to get to the corner of Deer Park Road and The Silverado Trail on Sunday morning. The Prize: a flat of Dr Dinwiddie’s fabulous peaches, ripe and ready for us to claim them and make...
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SHAVED BROCCOLI SALAD
We took a road trip across the Nevada desert to Ketchum, Idaho. Driving through dusty has-been towns that were once havens to Chinese railroad workers, Basque sheep herders, gambling miners and...
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SALMON SASHIMI SALAD
The Atacama Dessert in Chile is probably one of the most memorable places that I have ever traveled. The dusty dessert town of San Pedro de Atacama is a little over 8000 feet elevation and the...
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BRAISED SHORT RIB BOLOGNESE
Summer just ended suddenly a couple of days ago. We were drinking gin and tonics and swimming at midnight to cool off and then suddenly the warm on shore breezes ended and the cold off shore winds...
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MOM’S ENGLISH TOFFEE
I am not sure why this is the only time of the year when I make candy. I guess that it’s because everyone is doing it too. I have mentioned that my mother was not a good cook. She just didn’t have...
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SNOWBALL COOKIES
This is one of the most popular cookies in the history of cookie making. It goes by many names like Russian Tea Cake (my mother), Pecan Puffs(my mother in law) Mexican Wedding Cookies, Sandies and...
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END OF THE WORLD MAYAN SOUP
On December 21 we took a trip up the Rio Dulce and then transferred by car to Quirigua, one of the most important Mayan ruins. We stood before the smoldering remnants of a sacrificial fire, which...
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NEWS OF HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
The sepia hued header is to celebrate the induction of our 1890′s farmhouse, Monte Vista, and our vineyard, Diamond Mountain Vineyard into The National Register of Historic Places (as well as the State...
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THE PEASANT’S MINESTRONE
Lately I have been rereading some of Angelo Pellegrini’s books. He was an Italian immigrant who became a college professor at the University of Washington…an English professor no less!I knew some who...
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Tanya Holland’s Famous Fried Chicken and Welcome Home
festival in Paro, Bhutan Freddy and I traveled for the month of March in India and Bhutan. India is noise, busy roads filled with bicycles, pedicabs, tuk-tuks, taxis, camel drawn wagons, and the...
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Better than potato chips…
Freddy and I spent part of September in Umbria, exploring little hill towns and enjoying the area’s specialties which included charcuterie for breakfast, lunch and of course, dinner.One of our...
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