Month: November 2014

Oh crabs!

It was a beautiful day in San Francisco, crab fest at Capurro’s Restaurant & Bar was amazing.

Capurro's

Personalized parking assistance from Paul the owner, who kept the boys occupied while daddy secured the reservation and I did the parking. He showed them two giant barrels full of live fresh crabs.

Fresh Live Crab

Poor Joe asked if he could please save some, after all, how would you feel if someone caught you, cooked you, then ate you? Sure kid, right after I get mine!

Crab Fest

We were only there for an hour, and when we left both barrels were empty.

Saturday mornings in the kitchen

Life has gotten in my way lately and I haven’t had a Saturday morning cooking session in quite a while. It was good to get back in the swing of things today.

I started off with french toast, using up the (more than) day old bread that my honey brought home from the restaurant. Since we were out of syrup I had to get busy.

Here we have chocolate, vanilla, brown sugar, and pear:

Syrups

Best part of the double batch of chocolate syrup is you have to make chocolate milk with the leftovers that won’t fit in the bottle. And maybe little Joe will use the pear on his toast/cakes/waffles, but no one else will so I had to make some yogurt to go with that.

Next we’re off to my sister’s birthday party where her hubby will impress us with pulled pork sandwiches. He’s been smoking and slow cooking the pork for days. We are all encouraging him to follow his dream of cooking school; I promise to taste test anything and everything! And then tomorrow night it’s off to my man’s brother’s house where his wife will make my cherished birthday dinner. Same thing every year–no deviation–catfish in red sauce with green beans amandine. Ahhhhhh.

What a food lovers delight this weekend is turning out to be.