Category Archives: Food and Drink

Merry Christmas 2011

Merry Christmas! Our family celebrates Christmas Eve together – and the whole gang was at our house today for a great dinner and lots of fun singing carols, catching up, and just being together. Our two grand-daughters and Lily had … Continue reading

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Pepper Season 2011

Pepper season has arrived at our local Menlo Park Farmers Market – and they look great! Our favorite pepper from local grower Happy Quail Farms isn’t actually shown in the image – be sure to try the Pimientos de Padrón, … Continue reading

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Such a Pleasant Re-Entry!

As you could probably tell by my somewhat cranky post earlier this week, it’s been an intense week. Fortunately, while I continued to work for a few hours again today, this was also a bit of a recharge day. The … Continue reading

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Looking at Traffic, Food and Recipes!

I’ve been doing a bit of looking at traffic today – web traffic that is – across both my personal and our Glenbrook web sites. For my personal sites, it’s interesting that my recipes blog, ScottsKitchen.com, has been running about … Continue reading

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Friday Night Jazz at Cafe Borrone

We joined Chris and Linda Gulker last night for a wonderful Friday evening adventure – first some early evening munchies at Cafe Borrone, then the William Gibson event at Keplers (he was reading from his new book Zero History), and, … Continue reading

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Some Simple Lessons from Village Pub

Today, Chris Gulker and I headed to Village Pub in Woodside for Chef Dmitry Elperin‘s cooking class on “Classic and Contemporary Cooking Techniques for Meat”. Eight of us spent a couple of hours in the Pub’s kitchen with Dmitry as … Continue reading

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A Ham Dinner at Wildwood

Earlier this week, my Glenbrook partner Carol Coye Benson and I were in Portland, Oregon for a Private Payments Workshop with one of our clients. Upon our arrival the night before, we headed for Portland’s Wildwood Restaurant – one of … Continue reading

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A Special Healdsburg Weekend Away at Honor Mansion

We headed off to Healdsburg early Friday morning – for a 3 day weekend away. Staying at the Honor Mansion – a truly outstanding B&B within walking distance of the downtown square in Healdsburg – we caught up with good … Continue reading

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Over Ten Years of Blogging

I was recently reading one of Anil Dash’s blog posts and noticed he was about to celebrate ten years of blogging. That caused me to go back to the Internet Archive and see if I could find any history of … Continue reading

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A Lovely Sunday Evening at Madera

Last night, we had dinner along with our friends and Linda Gulker at the Madera restaurant at the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel. It was an unusually warm day Sunday – with a bright blue sky off to the west, cooling … Continue reading

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