Archive for the 'Food' Category



Diving into Movies and seeing stars at the Beverly Hilton

Published on August 4, 2010

Tweet Some things are quintessential Beverly Hills, and those are the things I really enjoy. Watching television and movies as a child gave me a certain perception of what it would be like here – glamorous, fun, festive, tropical, with star watching. All these were rolled into one evening under the stars at the Aqua […]


the week in pictures…

Published on April 28, 2010

Tweet Whew! So much fun to have, so few hours in the day…themes for the week are: family, nostalgic fun, food, and flat Karissa. * My sweet in laws are visiting from Washington state -the Critter has been having so much fun seeing the sights with them * We celebrated my Perfect Husband’s birthday with […]


I am going to turn into an alligator pear!

Published on March 22, 2010

Tweet The Critter and I spent a fun Friday evening with one of my bff’s, aka Aunt Asha. Asha has a lovely home in the hills overlooking the city with a gigantic avocado tree. She gave me an entire grocery bag full of the fruit and they are like butter.


For all those who love Trader Joe’s

Published on February 14, 2009

Tweet For those of you who don’t have Trader Joe’s in your city, it’s an independent grocery chain that manufactures most of its products, and there are LOTS of things to get addicted to. I must admit that until I became a wife and mother – Trader Joe’s was a place to buy protein bars, […]


Weekend in the ‘Hood…

Published on November 10, 2008

Tweet …was mostly NOT in the hood. You know I hate the freeway. My Perfect Husband always jokes that I practically will drive through people’s backyards to shortcut. I realize that millions of people hop on the freeway many times a day and think nothing of it, but for me it’s a Voyage, requiring much […]


Happy Hour! It all started when…

Published on September 29, 2008

Tweet …it occurred to the perfect Husband and I that we haven’t yet had a party in our home that was a grown up cocktail party since the Critter was born. As if by spontaneous combustion, Calibamanancy* of CityMommy, having offered to host a get together at her home for visiting CityMommies, had a flood, […]


Weekend in the hood

Published on September 23, 2008

Tweet Bah, Critter had the croup for the third time last week, so my posts were few. We did manage to attend two noteworthy events on Sunday. My very fabulous designer friend Carlos Alberto of The Skyline Studios was chosen to create a model unit at EVO South. The much-anticipated LEED certified highrise community opened […]


The new Luau Restaurant in Beverly Hills

Published on September 3, 2008

Tweet You don’t come to me for the hottest and newest – I know, I’m more about nostalgia and culture personality than TMZ. But this post has a bit of both. I stroll the Critter all over the Beverly Hills triangle about three times a week to do errands. One of the very first posts […]


It almost never happens…

Published on May 5, 2008

Tweet …that there is not a line a block long at Sprinkles, the cupcake factory that has captured and addicted millions. In spite of the fact that I live a mere five minute walk from there, I never go, because I truly could bake cupcakes in the amount of time it would take to stand […]