It reaches 99 F in San Jose today. Spent most of the day in the office with AC. When I got home…our house is quite toasty.

We decided to create minimum heat from cooking…

This weekend is also the Slow Food Nation event in SF. In celebration of Summer and Slow Food, we decided to make some home cooking with some local ingredients.

The salad mixed is from Happy Boy Farms from the Sunday’s Campbell Farmer Market. We also mixed in two green tomatoes from our garden. Ethan made the spiced tofu with fresh basils (from our garden). The halibut is from Race Street Fish & Poultry Market. I followed/modified a recipe from The Gourmet Cookbook by Ruth Reichl with Buddha’s Hand Citron Vodka from Hanger One.

Toast to Summer!

It is so nice to have the weekend again. Had to work last Sunday.
Fall is a month away.
Not ready to let Summer go yet.
Feeling a bit like the image above today.
Not too define…quiet…

Came home for lunch today.
Saw a hawk in the backyard.
Well…I heard its wings flapping first..through the kitchen window…
the wind sounds beautiful.
A nice encounter.

Maybe to the hawk I was an unexpected visitor.