July, 2008

  1. Look…Housewife Fun

    July 21, 2008 by Tarrant Figlio


    108

    As a 1930s wife, I am
    Very Superior

    Take the test!

    Ok, so the quiz is heteronormative and I had to work around that a wee bit. Not as much as one might think.

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  2. Blogher 08

    July 17, 2008 by Tarrant Figlio

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  3. California Salad Cups

    July 17, 2008 by Tarrant Figlio

    Another California recipe, another salad recipe. More grapefruit! In 1942 grapefruit and walnuts must have screamed California! I am amused that it is called salad cups, but served on plates.

    Less than 24 hours until Blogher Conference 08 in San Francisco.

    California Salad Cups

    1 cup diced, membrane-free grapefruit sections
    1 cup diced pineapple
    1 cup diced, membrane-free orange sections
    1 cup sliced banana
    1/2 cup broken walnut meats
    lettuce
    1 pkg. (3 oz.) cream cheese
    1 tbs. liquid honey
    1 tbs. lemon juice
    1/2 cup whipping cream
    4 walnut meat halves

    Combine grapefruit, pineapple, orange, and banana; drain. Add broken nut meats. Arrange lettuce on salad plates; fill with fruit mixture. Mash cream cheese; add honey and lemon juice. Whip cream slightly; add to cream cheese mixture. Mask fruit with cheese mixture. Garnish with nut meat halves. Serves 4.

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  4. California Salad

    July 16, 2008 by Tarrant Figlio

    I had an excellent avocado (everywhere seems to have avocado on something) BLT last night at Angelica’s Bistro here in Redwood City. The spicy aioli promised…not spicy at all. Just call it mayo with speckles. The French roll suffered from a non bread area’s version of French roll. Still the sandwich as a whole was good. Quite good

    The bruschetta with cheese had a lot of celery and walnuts, interesting in a retro sort of way. A second olive might have been nice since we shared the appetizer and there was only one. The portobello sandwich that Denise got was good, I think. The salad that came with the sandwiches, limp, unattractive and ignorable. Mexican hot coco really excellent.

    Service slow, really slow for an empty restaurant, considering the order was a couple of sandwiches. Nearly impossible to get coffee refills, despite the fact that the waiter and the manager/owner/whatever had plenty of time to chit chat with the guy at the next table over.

    Anyhow, we would maybe go back…the garden was lovely, even if we were freezing. The menu was interesting and reasonably priced. If the service was paced better and we were spared the self-important gentlemen, it would be a definite. Who needs a fresh salad?

    Oh wait…here is a salad recipe…fresh and California for you to enjoy on your own pretty patio.

    From the Pocket Cook Book by Elizabeth Woody, 1942.

    California Salad

    Serves 4

    1 avocado
    1 cup membrane-free grapefruit sections
    6 ripe olives
    Lemon Lime Dressing
    Lettuce

    Peel avocado; halve lengthwise. Remove seed; cut avocado in crosswise slices. Chop olives’ combine with avocado and grapefruit. Moisten with dressing. Serve on lettuce.

    Lemon Lime Dressing
    Makes 1 3/4 cups

    4 tsp lemon juice
    2 tsp lime juice
    2 tbs. sugar
    1/2 cup whipping cream
    1/2 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing

    Combine lemon and lime juices, mayonnaise or salad dressing and sugar. Whip cream slightly; fold in.

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