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City by the Bay

By threejamigos | May 26, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

San Francisco Treats. Back in the Day

Visited Mom in San Francisco…a beautiful, sunny day so we took a walk in the Marina, my old stomping grounds. There is something to be said for growing up in the city. After school we would wander down Chesnut Street for a snack. Our favorites? Hunt’s Donuts for brain freeze slurpees or Lucca’s Delicatessen for 15 cents dill pickles we fished out of the giant barrel in the corner and a bag of bbq potato chips. Hmmm, not a snack I could handle these days.

IMG_1428 Grab a sandwich before a Giant's game! Hmm Mortadella, Cappicola, Salami, so many choices — Grab a sandwich before a Giant’s game! Hmm Mortadella, Cappicola, Salami, so many choices

Fresh Strawberry jam and Cinnamon sugar toast

I love going to the city. I can have toast and coffee surrounded by hipsters and then have lunch, beef chow fun and a delicious won ton soup with Mom at a favorite hole in the wall, and the toast will have cost more than lunch!

Traditions

By threejamigos | May 25, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

We went to a wedding this past weekend. I love weddings, a big party that brings friends & families, the young and the old together in celebration. A fusion of traditions both old and new, ones that bind you to your culture or religion or to your new family. Halfway through my own wedding I changed from my white wedding dress into a brilliant red jacket and skirt decorated with a dragon and pheonix of gold and silver faux jewels and sequins that would make Liberace blush. And in this outfit I poured tea and offered it to my elders as a show of respect. This past weekend I was on the receiving end, tea poured by my nephew and his new bride, everything comes full circle.

Lion Dance for the newlyweds and DJ for the dance ..blending old with new!

Addiction

By threejamigos | April 23, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

I have an addiction to cookbooks. I started collecting them way back in the day. My first cookbook was The New American Cuisine circa 1980, 35 dollars, which was unheard of then. I can remember the salesperson looking at the price and then at me and asking, are you sure you want to buy this book? Flash forward 30 years, my collection has grown to hundreds of books, filling shelves in every room, the kitchen, our bedroom (only desserts books here of course), every nook and cranny. As if this wasn’t enough, I stalk food blogs, websites, and magazines, my addiction has no boundaries. Hundreds of cookbooks, thousands of recipes..I am on a mission to cook & bake and chronicle my way through my collection and I will put them in my blog so you can try them if you like.

Jamigos 2.0

By threejamigos | April 2, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

Wes and I are now “empty-nesters”, well, except for Sammy our dog. So how to fill time once spent micromanaging my kids-go back to work full time? Nah. Reboot my blog? Thats a start although not much of a reboot since I had a grand total of 2 entries! I started 3Jamigos during a family vacation to Europe when my 1st kid graduated from high school, but with 2 still at home, life remained crazy busy and the blog was relegated to the back burner. Now with all of them “launched” its time to dust it off and try again, why not? I would like to say I thought long and hard about what direction my blog should go in…but I didn’t, and despite the gazillion of blogs out there already, my blog centers around food. It will also have photos of things I love like sports, travel, and family as well as musings and sometimes rants on the same (I will try to stay away from politics). A pediatric pharmacist by trade, cooking and baking translate well. What this tells you is I have a math and science background and I’m a bit compulsive and analytical and that is how I approach recipes. I try a recipe and think about what made it awesome or a bust.

Every now and then, such as graduation and kids going off to college. I tear myself away from food and sports and do something out of my comfort zone. When my kids headed off to college I realized that they didn’t want my “pearls of wisdom” or “the talk” so I dusted off the sewing machine and made comforter covers and pillow cases for them. I am the antithesis of a craft queen but it felt good sending them off with something to remind them that I was watching over them and still trying to keep them safe and warm. Check out the monster buttons on their comforter covers, haha!