Tag: SF Bay Area

  • Farmhouse Inn

    Farmhouse Inn

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    Real Thanksgiving meal dining out, so no preparation for us (yah!) and dining was in an outdoor tent. We brought along bottles of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from Croix from our tasting earlier in the week. since we each did four courses, we were able to try everything on the menu. Ingredients were very good…

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  • Croix Estate Winery

    Croix Estate Winery

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    We’re chilling up in Guerneville. It’s Sunday. We’re wine tasting at one of our favorite wineries (social distancing appropriately of course).

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  • Truffle dinner #2: Dry aged steak, risotto

    Truffle dinner #2: Dry aged steak, risotto

    Truffle dinner #2 – 3-month dry aged steak (reverse seared on the BGE), mushroom risotto, salad, and the rest of the 3 bottles of Barolo (so interesting the way they changed from yesterday), and a scrumptious cheese tart from KAB Cheese Tart. Oh yeah, lots of truffles too.

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  • Truffle dinner #1: Regiis Ova Caviar, martinis, pasta, Barolo

    Truffle dinner #1: Regiis Ova Caviar, martinis, pasta, Barolo

    It’s hump day so of course we deserve caviar and martinis. We were bored with the usual Tsar Nicolina caviar so we ordered this from Regiis Ova Caviar. We went with 50g of the hybrid caviar which features caviar from two different types of sturgeon. The packaging and the hand written thank you note are…

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  • Dry aged steak

    Dry aged steak

    First steak off of our 37lb side of beef. Dry aged 6 weeks at this point. Reverse seared in the self-repaired (that’s a whole story by itself) big green egg. Andrea made a chimichurri sauce which really paired fantastically – the aged steak was bursting with umami and fatty goodness (and a bit of aged…

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  • Cobb Salad

    Cobb Salad

    Cobb salad with some leftover steak

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  • Wako take home meal

    Wako take home meal

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    This was a pretty impressive platter for take home from Wako! One disadvantage is that you have the entire meal in front of you all at once instead of being doled out over time when you dine in. So, of course, we ate too quickly!

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  • Truffle day #3: Steaks

    Truffle day #3: Steaks

    Truffle day #3: We went with wagyu bone in rib eye steaks from our local butcher Baron’s Meat & Poultry. I had one steak and Andrea and Trisha split the other. Sides included mini baked potatoes and salad. For the wine, we went domestic with one of our standbys – a 2012 Pride reserve claret.…

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  • Truffle day #2: Souffle

    Truffle day #2: Souffle

    Truffle day #2: we went French today… truffle soufflé with shaved truffle. Our Burgundy is a bit depleted in our wine collection so I had to go with a 2013 Louis Jadot from Beaune (which is where we would have been staying in Burgundy next month before the pandemic happened). soufflé is one of my…

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