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I give credit to my dad for reintroducing me to the classic steakhouse salad: The Wedge Salad.

Growing up in Wisconsin, this salad was part of every Sizzler (considered fancy-schmancy at the time) dinner. Do you remember those salads too?

And I give credit to Tom for elevating that sad salad I remember, into a salad I now [...]

Lately Samantha has taken quite an interest in cooking with her dad.

While she’s been into it since she’s been able to walk, suddenly cooking has become more important than even Dora the Explorer.

It makes me happy to see her take such an interest in cooking–as we are firm believers in food as an intrinsic, wonderful part [...]

Here in the Napa Valley, we drink a lot of wine.

But sometimes we just want a cocktail.

While Tom always sticks with the classics, I sometimes find a Gin & Tonic or a Crown & Seven just too boring. So, I’ve been through my Cosmopolitan phase, my Mango Mojito phase and my fruit Margarita phase. All are great [...]

So that NaBloPoMo thing last month plum tuckered me out.

The theme. The daily.

It’s actually still a bit challenging changing gears and writing about a subject other than a winery (or as it became, anything even remotely associated with a winery).

So I’ve decided to write about something that has nothing to do with a winery. And [...]