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...
View ArticleOver 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleSome 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...
View ArticleFriday 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...
View ArticleLooking 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,...
View ArticleSuch 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...
View ArticlePepper 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...
View ArticleMerry Christmas 2011
Order a Limited Edition print of this photo 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,...
View ArticleOne of my local favorites: Cafe Borrone in Menlo Park
One of my favorite local spots in Menlo Park is Cafe Borrone. I’m often there early for breakfast and sometimes, with colleagues, for lunch. Great food, great location, beautiful light, art, music....
View ArticleFriday Lunch: Roasted Beet and Strawberry Salad
A lovely Friday afternoon lunch today at the Village Pub. This was the special salad – roasted beets and strawberries with goat cheese mousse and balsamic. Lovely – and delicious!
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