Fun times…
Just a few random photos from our travels (France + UK). The final pic is of Ayo and his second cousins in the UK. Ayo is 20 months old, […]
Yum!
Birthday weekend
Wow, this past week has been hectic. Tall Mountain was busy conference-hopping last weekend and shooting the next film until late at night most nights this past week. Back on […]
Saturday mornings…
The weekend is a perfect time for baked goods. We all agreed that this couldn’t-be-more-simple chewy berry oat bar by Yammie’s hit the spot! If you don’t have oat flour, […]
Black bean brownies
I have a friend who is legitimately gluten intolerant. Knowing how hard it has been for her to deny scores of tasty things (if you haven’t yet, just try to […]
Au marché…
Best Friday morning market finds: one cute little green top, a pretty tablecloth, fresh goat’s yoghurt for Ayo (made yesterday), a crate full of inexpensive apricots for jam making…
Cranberry chia energy bars
This week, I got hooked on these DIY energy bars by Inspired Edibles (click through to view recipe). Math was never my forté but check out this equation: less sugar […]
Food lately
A little while ago, I said that I would share some food ideas as we came across them. Well, here are five eats you would have seen around our home […]
Flirtin’ with Asia
An evening watching Whale Wars, an entertaining show about stopping Japanese Antartic whaling 🙂 Korean roasted wasabi seaweed snacks A first taste of Chinese church last Sunday Listening to Chinesepod. […]
New Year’s Eve Sushi
Have you ever made Sushi before? We hadn’t either, but now we can say we made sushi in 2012 thanks to our spontaneous, spunky brother and sis-in-law. What we were […]
A foodie’s paradise
French grocery store fish counter: Resulting in our Sunday lunch: fresh trout and panchetta with almonds, roasted brussel sprouts and tagliatelle with crème fraîche. (11 EUR for 4 people). Here […]
Un peu de tout
A bit of everything. My kid smells like a skunk. I need to strip his dipes again. It’s the second time in five months, so I’m not complaining. Especially, because […]
Lovely London
We thoroughly enjoyed our time in the UK. I rediscovered my [other] passport country that I honestly hated during my four undergrad years of university. Let’s face it: I was […]
Digging deeper…
After several hours of looking into the Super Baby Food (SBF) diet, I broke down and bought my own copy on Amazon for $0.22. It turns out, 7 months is […]
There’s no place like Asia…
except for downtown Los Angeles! Sometimes you just need an Asian day. That’s how I felt yesterday! So, we enjoyed a Korean BBQ lunch in K-town, home to the largest […]
A labor of love.
Wow. Birthday meal #32 was a roaring success. Special thanks to chefs TM & TJ and my sweet family of sous-chefs (not forgetting the birthday lighting and decoration specialist).
Solids
Would you believe it? I tried to trick Ayo by skipping his late night feeding last night. Thankfully, he woke me up and reminded me at 4:00am that he was […]
Beating those 5pm “what’s for dinner?” blues
5 pm has become an hour that I dread. It is about at that time that I peer inside our refrigerator and frantically start clicking around Epicurious for dinner ideas. […]
Lavazza-lounge
Yesterday we drove yet another 550km back to mamie and papi’s place. That brings this week’s travel distance to 1700km, spread across 20 or so hours in the car. And […]