As I mentioned in my last post, I spent this past weekend in San Francisco for Blogher Food, a conference on food blogging. I didn’t get to spend a ton of extra time in the city (had to get back to my Nuni) and you can get the actual liveblogs from the conference presentations on the Blogher website (I attended Visual Track 1 & 3, and Vocation Track 2, and given that many of the presentations I was most interested in ran simultaneously, you can rest assured that I’ve already spent a lot of time with those liveblogs), so I thought I’d give you a run down of my takeaway from the conference.
Entries from September 30th, 2009
Top 7 Lessons from Blogher Food
September 30th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Food Blogging 101, Non Recipe
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Tacos Por Favor — Shredded Chicken Tacos with Tomatillo Sauce
September 29th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Main Dishes, Poultry, Quick, Recipes, weeknight dinners
I like to to say I’m a California girl born and bred, but when I hit the tender age of seventeen I was ready for anything but. I wanted away from brown hills and palm trees, dry desert air and eternal sunshine. So when I graduated from high school, I lost no time in packing up my life and heading for college in New England.
New England was a revelation – the summers were a deeper green than I have ever seen, shading through a multicolored fall into a grey and black and sometimes white winter. I dove into the culture, donning peacoats and woolen scarves, going apple picking and clam digging. I picked leaves in the fall and lilacs in the spring. And even now my years in Connecticut have changed me, making people who are die hard Easterners think I must be one too.
For more on my California Girl tendencies and a recipe for tacos, clock on the post title above.
Tags: chicken·Gluten Free·mexican·weeknight
Famous Simple Summer Peach Cake
September 21st, 2009 · 8 Comments · Baked Goods and Desserts, Entertaining, Make Ahead, Recipes, Summer
People who don’t live in Los Angeles say that we don’t have seasons. The sun is always shining, the grass is always green, it’s always swimming pool weather. That’s not entirely true. We have seasons. In the winter it rains and the world is green. The spring is full of marine layers and fog, studded with purple jacaranda blooms. Summer is hot and dry and brown and ridden with wildfires. In the fall it smells of dirt and the Japanese maple trees in Beverly Hills turn glorious colors and the silkfloss trees burst into glorious pink blooms. We have seasons.
They just don’t change in September.
September in Los Angeles just an extension of summer, with less vacation and more traffic. At its worst that means triple digit temperatures, smoke filled skies from wildfires, and faded, stretched out summer clothes that need another month’s wear squeezed out of them. But I like to think of this as a little blessing of Indian summer — sunny mornings warm enough to eat breakfast on the patio, evenings with a light breeze that are the perfect temperature for gin and tonics, tomatoes that continue to ripen on the vine, and summer fruits at the markets. Simple.
Tags: baking·brunch·cake·dessert·fruit·Kid Friendly·sweets·Vegetarian
