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in the land of whoa

jenyu — Sun, 13 May 2012 01:16:43 PDT

Recipe: chocolate gingerbread cookies This post is coming to you from sunny (and hot) California. More specifically, you could call it sunny, hot, gorgeous, delightful, mouth-watering, seductive Sonoma County (and a little Napa too). It’s been looking like this: vineyards wine tastings gardens dinner at redd (those are scallops – bloody awesome scallops) lovely grounds [...]

before this gets away from me

jenyu — Thu, 10 May 2012 10:50:15 PDT

Recipe: roast pork belly on pea purée The ground is greening up with grasses and the leaves of familiar wildflowers around my house. I spy new bright green tips dotting the conifers on my trail runs and dog walks. It smells good – mountain spring. From my office window, I can see a not-too-distant ridge, [...]

shoot the moon

jenyu — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:32:56 PDT

People often ask how I shoot things like lightning, meteor showers, the moon. To be honest, it took a lot of attempts and screw ups and reading for me to manage any level of competency and I’m *still* screwing up and I’m *still* learning. But after the recent supermoon event, I thought it might be [...]

super weekend

jenyu — Sun, 06 May 2012 23:10:47 PDT

Recipe: butterscotch and milk chocolate puddings Were any of you able to catch the full moon this past weekend? Since the moon was at perigee (closest approach to Earth) for 2012, it appeared 14% larger and 30% brighter than typical full moons. Everyone was saying it would be a “supermoon”. For us, it certainly was [...]

sandwich chronicles: dish gourmet’s reuben

jenyu — Sat, 05 May 2012 13:24:39 PDT

For this week’s sandwich pick, I’m still hanging about on East Pearl Street (that is, east of the Pearl Street pedestrian mall). Walk a few blocks east from Cured and you’ll find Dish Gourmet on the south side of the street. It’s a cute little deli (and catering business), bright with natural light, tucked in [...]