End of a Looong Week

What an incredibly long week it has been! I am truly enjoying a well deserved and much needed couple of days off. I can't wait to go into LA today - which always means a chance to go to some great restaurants!

On a side note, I finally caught the episode of No Reservations that was filmed here in Indio at the Date Gardens, it was pretty priceless. I'm still not exactly sure why he decided to visit the Salton Sea - it has absolutely zero culinary significance. As a matter of fact when Mike and I took a day trip there recently we literally could not find any place to eat and had to drive right back to town. Bizarre.

We had a lovely dinner at a friends house last night, including a delicious watermelon salad with alfalfa sprouts that was a perfect summertime treat. I ate three pieces of La brea bakery olive bread - oh my god, that stuff is ridiculously good. Mike also really enjoyed the 16% alcohol content California zin that was being poured - I think it sneaks up you a little bit. Katie says that even if it says 16% it could really be upwards of 18% - which is for all intents and purposes fortified liquor! Oh well - he was having a lot of fun=) By the way, the weather was glorious last night, wasn't it?

Will post pictures and updates from LA. Have an amazing Sunday . . .

Chile!

Are we watching the new season of No Reservations or what ????? I just got caught up today with the Chile episode. I did not need a lot of convincing that this is a country I MUST visit at some point. Actually I was pretty sold when he enjoyed his first meal of Pork sandwich slathered with avocado and mayo. Que delicioso. Of particular interest to me was the moment Tony discusses finally coming around to wine these days. When we saw him earlier this year he told us ( and everyone else at the mcCallum to be fair ) that he just doesn't really give two hoots about wine. When it comes to food, and well - life I suppose, I usually find him to be dead on with his observations and musings but that's pretty much where we had to part ways philosophically. So I was kind of delighted to hear him talk about starting to appreciate wine, which, in my opinion, makes food shine far beyond the limits of beer or liquor.

Tonight at 10 is the new Australia episode, which I am very excited about. I would probably sell my soul to have this man's job. Ok, definitely, I would sell it, I would sell it like a hot stereo=)