Stacy Grow

When I was a child, our family took a trip every year to the coast where we would relax in a beach house for a week. This 4 hour car ride was always preceded by a breakfast of store-bought orange juice (Sunny D - blech) and doughnuts. Since I always go...

Lately, all I can think about is Spain. While we save our pennies in hopes of a trip in the distant future, I'm focusing on what I can enjoy now: the food of Spain.We had a Spanish-themed dinner party this weekend, complete with a brand new paella pan,...

Mai Pham with her cooking assistant, shownbehind her cookbook and signature saucesI joined the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op this year, after admiring from afar for a long time and even taking a few outstanding classes there in the past. (Like this on...

"Wait, Sacramento is having a Food Film Festival?" I thought in amazement. Discovering this event felt like someone designed and custom tailored a city-wide event according to my own personal interests. Even better, it meant that these issues were of i...

There is so much I love about life in general. Every month of the year, there is something I look forward to for the rest of the year and relish when it finally happens.Early spring carries so many wonders with it.This is my neighbor's cherry tree - is...

Um... hi?I've been swimming along in the sea of life and friends and trips and just now pausing to reflect on how wonderful the past few weeks have been. There was Valentine's Day:For the second year in a row we made the Zuni Cafe Roast Chicken with Br...

We are enjoying a very warm winter, not to mention dry. I was running around basking in the sun today and noticed that the plants I put in my backyard are starting to attract ladybugs - hooray! Ladybugs are, of course, the superheroes of the garden, de...

I just came back from a stress-free weekend visiting family in Southern California. It was sunny and 75 degrees outside. I wore a skirt and sandals to the beach. There were strawberries in the farmer's market - both local and seasonal. Is it any wonder...

Many things have converged lately to make me want to try my hand at pita bread. At the moment, I'm reading "A Year in the Village of Eternity", a memoir by a British woman who lived for a year in a remote mountainous village in Italy. She learns the tr...

2012. This year, we set some goals that may not be conducive to maintaining a blog, but hopefully can improve our overall quality of life. One of those goals is to limit our eating out to twice a month. For us, that's not an easy order to fill, but we ...