Entertaing with 8 & $20 with a Side of Travel Memories: Lamb Chops with Mint Gremolata and Minty Mashed Peas

Back today to share another of my recent 8 & 20’s – Lamb Chops with Mint Gremolata and Minty Mashed Peas – and just how easy thi...

San Diego Taco Crawl Round 2: Barrio Logan

I mentioned in the my last post that over our last couple of trips to SD, we’ve been surveying taco joints. We made our second San Die...

San Diego Taco Crawl Round 1: North Park

Borrego taco at City Taco: Pulled lamb with wild mushrooms, cotija cheese, tomato, cilantro and fried leeks in a chipotle cream sauce on...

Quick Stop in Santa Barbara

We recently took a little road-trip down to San Diego to join in the celebrations for a friend’s birthday. On our way down we made a quick...

California Bottom to Top: A Short Photo Essay

Temescal Canyon Circumstances converged in such a way that Greg and I traversed California from south to north over the course of Jan...

L.A. Niblets

To finish up with Cali travels from last year, I thought I'd share some quick scenes from my trips to LA. I made two visits to my o...

Zins in Dry Creek

Prior to our Black Friday Wine Tasting , Greg and I had the opportunity to do some wine tasting in Sonoma earlier in the year as well...

Black Friday Wine Tasting 2: Pinot in the Russian River Valley & Healdsburg

Last year we got in 2 quick trips to the Bay Area, with 2 rounds of wine tasting, two rounds of tasty eating, and a lot of fun. I’m goin...

Catskills Weekend: Hiking

The point of this trip was to do some hiking, and even if I might have given the impression so far that all we did was eat, we did inde...

Catskills Weekend: Woodstock

My mom was a hippy--or at least she would have been if she'd been born in the US and if my grandma had been less strict. Still, as...

Catskills Weekend: Saugerties

Our homebase during or our Catskills weekend was the little town of Saugerties , NY.  The word quaint comes to mind. The core of the c...

Catskills Weekend: Mohonk Mountain House

Picture the opening scene to Dirty Dancing —Baby and family pull up to a swanky mountain resort with affluent guests playing silly gam...

Mendoza . . . in one BIG post

Catena Zapata Time to finally move on to the last phase of our trip – Mendoza. Our time in B.A. was all about eating and wan...

Buenos Aires: Microcentro and Retiro

One last stop in B.A. Microcentro is Buenos Aires’ CBD, and like most CBD’s, it has a mix of old, stately buildings and modern ar...

Buenos Aires: Recoleta

What trip would be complete without a trip to the local cemetery?  Wait, what?  Actually in Buneos Aires that might actually be true. ...

Buenos Aires: Caminito, La Boca, and Patagonia Sur

Caminito and the surrounding neighborhood, La Boca , is kind of an odd tourist spot.  La Boca is a working class neighborhood origi...

Buenos Aires: Palermo

The next stop on our virtual tour of Buenos Aires is Palermo . This is largely a posh residential area, but it’s also the place to go...

Buenos Aires: San Telmo

Back to the beautiful memory that is Argentina.  By far the biggest chunk of our time in BA was spent in the neighborhood of San ...