- Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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Back in the neighborhood
Posted by CD • 12:50pm
The first refreshments of the trip at Café du Marché along rue du Champs de Mars in Paris.
- Sunday, March 14, 2010
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Sleeping Beauty
Posted by CD • 9:27pm
Princess Olivia was exhausted after nearly a week of not feeling well. She rested Sunday afternoon.
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End of a nice ride
Posted by CD • 3:50pm
Went on the first Wheelworks scooter club ride (they hope to have them every other Sunday). Bill and Suzy rode a fine red GTS 250. It was a great route to the south of Eugene, winding past a lot of panting bike riders and a few wild turkeys. Everyone smiles when they see a Vespa. I topped the tank off on Monday and recorded an astounding 104.6 mpg. Vespas get great gas mileage. More DavazNet Vespa links | Wheeworks Eugene on Facebook
- Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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Baking: 350 Recipes and Techniques, 1,500 Photographs, One Baking Education Baking: 350 Recipes and Techniques, 1,500 Photographs, One Baking Education | By James Peterson | (10 Speed Press; $40 hardcover)
Posted by Kim Davaz • 6:00am
Get an education while you bake up a storm Step-by-step photographs and detailed directions give cooks everything they need to know about baking By Kim Davaz “Baking: 350 Recipes and Techniques, 1,500 Photographs, One Baking Education.” There you have it. Just about everything you need to know to start baking or raising your personal baking bar, all in one place. Author James Peterson, whose 14 other cookbooks include two James Beard Award winners (“Sauces” and “Cooking”), is a cooking instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York. “Baking” is indeed an education. Peterson explains every little detail of every…
- Saturday, March 06, 2010
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Budding new tree
Posted by CD • 4:49pm
Stella’s Magnolia stellata tree bloomed at Dartmoor on Saturday.