{"id":409,"date":"2012-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kitchenetteblog.com\/?p=409"},"modified":"2024-10-22T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:26:43","slug":"2012k106k1photo-roundup-may-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitchenetteblog.com\/2012\/06\/photo-roundup-may-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Roundup: May 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Okay, so May happened all of a sudden. Were you aware of this? I totally missed the memo.<\/p>\n
From my end, May was mostly a blur of food, mini-vacations and work. And apparently a lot of fancy drinks. That might explain the blur\u2026<\/p>\n
Since I haven\u2019t been in the kitchen nearly enough lately, I\u2019ll bombard you with photos instead!<\/p>\n
The first outing of the month was A la Carte Art in Mountain View \u2013 a festival of art (no way), music, and general foodery. It also happened to be Cinco de Mayo, so the hubs and I kicked the day off with tamales, tacos and margaritas.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/p>\n We walked around, corn in hand, and checked out some of the crafts.<\/p>\n Things got pretty meta, bro.<\/p>\n And Josh got pretty\u2026 Joshy.<\/p>\n Then it was back to work; nothing fun to show there.<\/p>\n Next up: a weekend getaway to Lake Tahoe where we met up with Josh\u2019s mom.<\/p>\n I made her favorite breakfast item: maple roasted bacon. I threw some other things on the plate for good measure.<\/p>\n Caesar waited very patiently for his portion, as always.<\/p>\n I\u2019d like to tell you that we lounged by the beach, but we mostly played pool and gambled in the nearby casinos. You know, typical Tahoe things.<\/p>\n A trip to the arcade was also in order. Yes, my husband and I are very much still children.<\/p>\n I really have no words for either of these things.<\/p>\n I do have words for this, however: YUM. So I guess just one word.<\/p>\n After Tahoe, I had one day to unpack, catch up on things, and clean my whole house\u2026 AHG. The day after that I was off to pick my mom up from the airport for a short visit. She\u2019d never been to San Francisco, and somehow neither of us had ever been to Napa, so we had a LOT to do in a few days.<\/p>\n The afternoon she arrived was spent lunching in Mountain View<\/a>, and cooking dinner at home.<\/p>\n Full day #1: San Francisco.<\/p>\n First stop was lunch at Fresca<\/a> in Pacific Heights. Again, YUM. Also\u2026 a yoda pen.<\/p>\n We spent a good amount of time checking out the stores in Pacific Heights.<\/p>\n I tried my best not to empty my bank account at\u00c2\u00a0Mudpie<\/a>, my favorite place to acquire things for spoiling my nephew.<\/p>\n After driving around a bit we made our way to Twin Peaks.<\/p>\n It was windy!<\/p>\n Seriously!<\/em><\/p>\n After some more driving, a stop in The Mission, and some more driving to pick Josh up at the train station, it was time for dinner at Aziza<\/a>.<\/p>\n Holy hell. The drinks.<\/em><\/p>\n The food.<\/em><\/p>\n Just\u2026 wow.<\/p>\n We came home and collapsed. Then it was up early the next morning for the drive to Napa! Yountville, to be exact.<\/p>\n Lunch (FINALLY) at Bouchon Bistro<\/a>. I\u2019ve said \u201cYUM\u201d too many times by now, haven\u2019t I? Oh well. YUM.<\/p>\n This was my first time at a Thomas Keller establishment, and it won\u2019t be my last. Perfection, as expected.<\/p>\n We ate our last California foie gras\u2026<\/p>\n For lunch-dessert (that\u2019s a thing), we went next door to Bouchon Bakery<\/a>. It was really hard to not just say \u201cI\u2019ll have one of everything!\u201d<\/p>\n We checked out the town.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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