Posts Tagged Chef
Taste Buds: Tiramisu Parfait
I have posted a tiramisu recipe once before here on Taste Buds, and that is definitely still my number one. However, for Chef’s birthday dinner last month, I decided to try this quickie version I found on Foodista. I remember revising the recipe a bit just to taste so the one below is based on [...]
Taste Buds: Spanish Rice that’s not Paella
Chef and I have been together for 6 years and I never learned how to make Spanish rice until now. I love it, obviously, and I can’t get enough of it whenever we have Mexican food. We discussed over and over what this really is called because it’s been labeled as Spanish rice, though it’s [...]
Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: The Melt
The Melt New Montgomery 115 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 Grilled cheese. American classic. So utterly simple. Get someone like Jonathan Kaplan, founder of the Flip camera, to complicate it and make it simple all over again. This guy made several hundreds of millions of dollars when he sold Flip to Cisco. The [...]
IDesign: Starting Design School
So folks, I’m starting IDesign, the design series of ID — inadvertently domesticated, in case you didn’t make the connection, LOL! Yes, this is quite diametrically opposed to whatever path I am in now, but to be honest with you, this does not come as a total random thing to me. If you read my [...]
Wanderlust: Holy Capilano!
This post is really about both Capilano Suspension Bridge and Grouse Mountain. Despite the title seeming it’s only about Capilano, I’ve learned that in Vancouver, these two attraction sites go hand in hand. There’s been so much to do and I’ve slowly been updating the blog’s layout, but I’ve finally found some time completing a [...]
Wanderlust: O, Canada!
I don’t know about you, but one of my regular pastimes is to search for travel deals, even if taking vacations doesn’t come as easily for Chef as it does for me. So, these searches spike when we know a holiday is coming up. Do you find yourself browsing through Expedia, Jetsetter, Hayes and Jarvis, [...]
Le Critique: Hole in the Wall: Bouchon in Napa Valley
Bouchon 6534 Washington Street Yountville, California 94599 707.944.8037 Recently, I posted about a visit to Yountville, where I raved about the land of Thomas Keller, in a quaint town in Napa Valley reminiscent of Europe. It could have easily been one of my French, Spanish or Greek holidays taken or to be taken. Travel is [...]
Wanderlust: A Jaunt to Yountville
There are just definitely those times when a quick trip to somewhere new becomes a wonderful surprise leaving you in awe and excitement at the same time. Times when you thought you were going to one place then you suddenly changed the plans and went somewhere else for practicality’s sake but then wondered why that [...]
Taste Buds: Tortilla de Patatas with Whiskey Sauce
This Taste Buds post is courtesy of Chef, actually. I call my husband “Chef” for a reason – well, for many reasons. One of which is because he has inspired me to explore my Chef side, even before we were married. Thus, the humble beginnings of this Taste Buds series. I first had some tortilla [...]
Music and Lyrics: Sky by Joshua Radin featuring Ingrid Michaelson
This is another one of those that I find fun to sing. I chose this this week because what happened in the song has happened to me 2 times in the past couple of weeks. Yup, bad dreams of Chef leaving me and on another one of me leaving him. Not in a so straight-forward [...]
Insurance Mania
I am beyond ecstatic to report that this is my first blog entry using Chef’s iPad. It’s 1AM, Chef is snoring next to me, but here I am doing something productive. This is just the tool I need especially since with my iPhone4, it’s been quite an effort to go to my desk actually because [...]


Inadvertently Domesticated
