One of the most important things to remember when cooking dinner for a group is that temperature and timing are everything. If you can time things correctly, all your hot dishes will still be hot when the time comes to eat. Often, that means starting proteins long before veggies, but knowing the resting time needed […]
On our final night in Calistoga, we decided to have a home-cooked meal in our adorable little Victorian house. Armed with the wine my parents brought up from Silicon Valley, as well as my dad’s heirloom tomato gazpacho, Magneto and I set about gathering the rest of the ingredients for our blowout feast. We kept […]
Friday was a day full of wine and laughter, culminating in a fantastic dinner courtesy of Magneto’s wonderful parents. After touring the Inglenook winery (my dad’s treat to our special guests), exploring the neighborhood of our Airbnb, and a tasting at August Briggs where my dad and I indulged in a few tastes of their […]
This past weekend, Magneto and I brought our parents together for the first time in a cute little Airbnb Victorian house in Calistoga. We were pretty nervous, but the four of them became fast friends almost immediately. One thing that helped was my parents arriving Friday morning with a big bag of treats from our […]
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