Every March the Russian River Wine Road puts on its annual barrel tasting event where you can throw down $10 and get in two days of barrel tasting at a huge number of Sonoma wineries. We've found some great wines through barrel tasting -- like Armida's Keefer Ranch Chardonnay and Dutcher Crossing's Nevins Cab. But…
In the last few weeks huckleberries have been popping up on menus everywhere I look...we had the wild huckleberry bread pudding at Coco500 (with caramel sauce - to die for!), the pear baba at Village Pub also had huckleberries and the tart tatin at Piacere in San Carlos was garnished with 2-3 huckleberries. I'm not…
Maybe I should just start calling this the Saturday Waffle...
At long last, signs of life are final starting to emerge after a winter that seems to go on forever and ever. I shouldn't complain - Denver has had a hell of a winter and so have folks back East -- just ask Jet Blue. The…
Daily Waffle was hit with a seemingly unrecoverable error on its former host server. So after 6 months I finally said screw this and we went back to Blogger. Are you ready for a montage?!
It seems to have become chic to just be over Valentine's Day. Whether you protest it as a consumerist holiday perpetuated by the greeting card/candy/flower companies or you just think it's ridiculous to hand over your first born for a 4-course prix fixe meal that you have to choke down in 40 minutes so the…
Last weekend some friends were in town from Denver, which gave us a good excuse to spend the day eating and drinking. We kicked off the day with brunch/lunch at the Half Moon Bay Inn and Kitchen. The place was empty when we walked in at 11:15, but by 11:45 it was full up.
The burger's…
>I don't know what those guys at California Pizza Kitchen know about Thai Chicken Pizza that I don't, but I'm convinced it's all in the sauce. I took a shot at basically recreating their Thai Chicken Pizza -- whole wheat crust from Trader Joe's using this sauce recipe as a guide, and then topping…
>New Year's Eve is always hit and miss for us - and it's not even because Ryan Seacrest seems to be Dick Clark's heir apparent on New Year's Rockin' Eve. OJ and I - we're well past the "Let's spend $150 a person for a prix fixe dinner w/ cheap champagne we don't want…
The newest cookie in my holiday cookie repertoire, Kris Kringle's peanut butter cup cookies, courtesy of one the gals at Debbie's Cookie Exchange.