Catherine Enfield

Brunswick StewThis week I am featuring a recipe from my friend, Ann, over at Sacatomato. Ann has a cookbook out called Hand-off Cooking. Now if you are following these crockpot posts then you are probably looking for easy recipes that require the least...

Updated Post:I’m at Roxy with BFF again. This time it is girls’ night out with another friend and we are here for dinner on a Friday. It’s 6 p.m. and the place is packed. It’s been a few years since my last visit and I’m a bit...

Part I - Journey BeginsPart II - Surgery DayNo, I'm not ready to show you pictures yet. Mostly because I forgot to take the camera with me to my follow-up appointment. I'll have to get a friend to take them for me. But also because I'm still not reveal...

I’ve seen charitable bake sales on other websites and thought – We have enough (over a dozen) Sacramento area food bloggers that we could probably swing one here. So I put the call out to all food bloggers, bakeries, pastry chefs, and others wh...

Irish Lamb StewYes, I know it is Tuesday and I'm actually a day early with my crockpot post this week. But I wanted to do Irish stew for St. Patrick's Day and figured that I would give people a chance to get ingredients if they wanted to make it for th...

You might have taken the Capitol Corridor train to the Bay Area, but taking an   Amtrak train to a distant destination is a much different experience. I endured such an experience in January a couple of years ago when I decided to take th...

Pho Bac Hoa Viet - pho w/ steak, flank, and tendonI only learned about six months ago that Pho is pronounced as Fuh. Don't ask me how to pronounce the rest of the name. But that's not what is important when you judge a restaurant. It's the food that ma...

If you watch the Food Network than you probably know who Guy Fieri is. If you don't watch it, then you'll know him as the spokesperson for TGI Fridays. Anyway, I've never been impressed by him. As far as I was concerned, he was all showman and no subst...

My boss is from Louisiana. His wife is from the same place that Sandra Dee hails from. Needless to say, we go at least once a month to SD's for lunch. It's the closest thing to home for him. Not perfect, but close enough. For the rest of us, it's pre...

This week I was asked to do a guest post for my friend Kimberly over at Poor Girl Eats Well. She’s in the middle of moving and needed a bit of a break from blogging duties during the move. I wanted to keep consistent with Kimberly’s theme of easy...