“la fée verte”


  The green fairy at Quins’s Lighthouse in Oakland. Hemingway and London would have been proud

Italian Sausage, white beans and tomatoes


Some meals are just too easy, and too good. This has quite a French country flair. Brown Italian, or other smoky sausage such as a Polish. Remove and set aside. Then add two cups or so of small tomatoes halved, or quartered depending on size to the still warm pan, if too dry add a bit…

Great meal at home


Went to PCC to get the makin’s of a great meal. They have free range, grass fed beef. That along with grilled tomatoes from our garden, Swiss Chard that I baked into think crisp wafers, and roasted Brussel sprouts from our garden made it great. Then for dinner we had flat breads, mine had kalamata…

Souix Falls, nice evening


Made it to Souix Falls and had a great abbreviated seminar day one. Went to Old Chicago last night and hung out. Had the $2.99 happy hour pizza, what a surprise, not a frozen-pop-in kind of thing but made to order – anchovies and kalamata olives, it was great! They even had Belgian beer in…

Denver? How did I get here?


This beautiful sunrise is my view of DIA – Denver International Airport, this morning. I am in a Ramada near, well as near as you can be, the airport. My room is graciously paid for by United Airlines, yes they still do that for mechanical delays in some situations. That small bump on the horizon is the airport….