[gcal id=”159″] The contenders: 1. Dreyer’s 2. Breyers 3. Bud’s Dreyer’s won with 2 out of 3 votes. In summary, the judges felt that Breyers was too sweet, and Bud’s resembled Fudgsicle pops, which in fact aren’t ice cream, as they contain no cream. I was excluded from judging, but I would’ve voted for Breyers. […]
I use this basic pizza dough recipe for pizza, focaccia, and bread sticks. But more often, I just use the prepared ready-to-bake dough found at Safeway and Trader Joe’s. Ingredients 1 pkg (1-1/4 tsp) active dry yeast 1 cup warm water 2-3/4 cups flour 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp salt Directions In a large […]
Start with a basic pizza dough (fresh or prepared). Roll or stretch the dough, spread a bit of olive oil over the surface of the dough and put it on an olive oil coated baking sheet. Cover and let it rise for an hour. Then poke a bunch of dimples in the dough and drizzle […]
The contenders: Dreyer’s (1), Bud’s (2), and Breyers (3). This was a competition between popular brands of vanilla ice cream that are priced in the mid-range, and can be found almost anywhere. Dreyer’s and Breyers were the same price where I bought them, and Bud’s was $0.50 more. I may already have been a bit […]
Palomarin Beach is a short .6 mile hike down from the Coast Trail that leads to the longer 7.5 mile hike to Alamere Falls from the Palomarin Trailhead in Bolinas. It’s a rocky beach and tends to have few if any other people there even on weekends.
Alamere Falls in Point Reyes is found at the end of the Coast Trail from the Palomarin Trailhead in Bolinas. It’s a 7.5 mile hike round trip with some hills and a few steep cliffs. Be prepared with good shoes and plenty of water. A few minutes into your walk, you’ll pass a trail that […]
“Hey, let’s go to Abbott’s Lagoon”, I’d suggest on a sunny morning in central Marin. By the time we’d reach Olema, we could see that it wasn’t going to be quite the beach day we’d planned. I always wished there were more webcams along the coast to reveal the fog before I decided to make […]
My son discovered this dish on the kids’ menu at Iron Springs in Fairfax, and liked it enough to want to recreate it at home. Our version has a greater proportion of bacon and broccoli to pasta, but it’s otherwise very similar to the original. This recipe serves a family of 4 with enough leftover […]
Mid-July seems to be when the blackberry bushes around here begin to produce lots of ripe berries. A few days ago, we picked enough to fill a one gallon storage bag to freeze for smoothies. We returned to the same bush yesterday to find that it must not take long for the berries to go […]
My kids routinely brought graded homework, art, and other papers home from school in some folded or completely mangled state. I’d find them on the bottoms of their bags beneath books and lunchboxes, sometimes eluding discovery for days. Their softbound books would also suffer over time. I searched everywhere for a lightweight box large enough […]
