Our friends stopped by the other day to say a (socially distanced) ‘Hello’, and we invited them to pick some lemons from our tree. It’s a weird time right now with Covid and Sheltering-in-place, so it’s nice to still be able to connect and share what we have.
This lemon tree is so fruitful! And it also needs a good pruning.
On Sunday afternoons when the weather is not cooperating, I sometimes take my 3-year-old to a local toy store with an amazing selection of used toys. We roam the store, lingering over Brio wooden train sets and bags of whiffle balls. I rummage through bins of vintage action figures, and he sends marbles down elaborate spiral tracks.
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I know I can’t be the only one today googling ‘how long do hard boiled eggs keep?’. In case you are one of those people googling too, properly stored hardboiled eggs will last from 1 to 1.5 weeks.
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When we had a baby I was insistent that we celebrate all our shared holidays as a family. ALL OF THEM. My significant other was alarmed, until he realized that when I said: ‘celebrate’, what I meant was: ‘eat treats’.
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February in the Bay Area means rain, blooming redbud trees, and lawns choked to the brim with masses of yellow flowers. The flowers are woodsorrel, a happy, friendly little weed that snuggles up to your shrubs during the winter like a wee, innocent baby chick.
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You can rack up significant unplanned cost when you travel just from getting around. Jumping from shuttle to bus to rental car takes a toll, but if you make the time to walk instead, you can save a significant amount of money.
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Have I said anything about lemons recently? No? Well, that changes now with the perfect way to ruin your weight-related New Year’s resolutions: Meyer Lemon Shortbread.
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I am always, always last minute about Christmas. In fact, as soon as I’m done writing this I’m going to finally do a little Christmas shopping.
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I’m a Bay Area native, I work for a San Francisco non-profit, and I live in Oakland. What does this mean? It means I live frugally in one of the wealthiest and most expensive places on the planet. To top it off my job entails meeting face-to-face everyday with affluent clients, and I need to look the part. I make my lifestyle and professional wardrobe work by a variety of means, currently one highly successful shopping method I use for clothes involves combining The Gap credit card rewards points system with shopping at Gap family stores (Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic) during their frequent sales periods.
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A salmon onigiri is my idea of lunch heaven. Onigiri are Japanese stuffed rice balls that often come wrapped in nori seaweed and (lucky us) are commonly found in California supermarkets. They are delicious, compact, portable, keep well, and are relatively healthy. Seaweed counts as a vegetable right?
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