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Thursday, December 15, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Chocolate, Charity & Cheer: Tips for Hosting a Christmas Cookie Swap
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Yummmm
Hungarian Goulahahahahahahash
Recipe submitted by Liz Vezer of Vezer Family Vineyard
Visit picturesque Suisun Valley, Napa Valley's neighbor by 6 miles! Cooking Class, Dinner & Tasting with Liz for a special occasion reservation at the Vezer Family Estate ... add an escorted ATV Vineyard tour for the perfect day. Open year-round No Appointment for Mankas Corner or Blue Victorian Tasting Rooms. No Fee Wine Club.
Ingredients:
•1 Bottle Vezer Family Vineyard 2006 Zinfandel - I personally use 1/2 to drink while cooking & 1/2 to cook in the recipe
•4-5lbs lean stew meat - cut into chunks so it absorbs the wine better
•1 large onion chopped fine
•10-12 cloves garlic minced
•3 lbs. Potatoes
•2 lbs Carrots
•10-12 TBS Hungarian Paprika
•3 large containers of beef stock
•1/4-1/2Cup Olive Oil (you decide how 'virginal')
•2-3 Turkish Bay leaves
•2 TBS Sea Salt
Serves approximately 1 tribe or 8 people. Continue reading Hungarian Goulahahahahahahash
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Recipe submitted by Liz Vezer of Vezer Family Vineyard
Visit picturesque Suisun Valley, Napa Valley's neighbor by 6 miles! Cooking Class, Dinner & Tasting with Liz for a special occasion reservation at the Vezer Family Estate ... add an escorted ATV Vineyard tour for the perfect day. Open year-round No Appointment for Mankas Corner or Blue Victorian Tasting Rooms. No Fee Wine Club.
Ingredients:
•1 Bottle Vezer Family Vineyard 2006 Zinfandel - I personally use 1/2 to drink while cooking & 1/2 to cook in the recipe
•4-5lbs lean stew meat - cut into chunks so it absorbs the wine better
•1 large onion chopped fine
•10-12 cloves garlic minced
•3 lbs. Potatoes
•2 lbs Carrots
•10-12 TBS Hungarian Paprika
•3 large containers of beef stock
•1/4-1/2Cup Olive Oil (you decide how 'virginal')
•2-3 Turkish Bay leaves
•2 TBS Sea Salt
Serves approximately 1 tribe or 8 people. Continue reading Hungarian Goulahahahahahahash
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Friday, October 21, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
2011 HARVEST UPDATE: Sonoma County Winemakers Address Fall Rains
October 11, 2011 – Santa Rosa, CA: Sonoma County Vintners, the premier marketing organization for Sonoma County’s wine and wineries, will be issuing a series of monthly updates on the 2011 harvest season from the perspectives of wineries in each of Sonoma County’s largest regions.
After last week’s rains, we wanted to check with winemakers and their vineyard teams to get a sense of how and if their grapes were impacted.
In the Sonoma Valley, Chateau St. Jean winemaker Margo Van Staaveren felt confident that the Bordeaux red varietal grapes would easily weather the moderately heavy rains, she had concerns for the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
To minimize losses and maintain quality, Van Staaveren’s team “worked all weekend long to bring in those vineyards particularly susceptible.”
In the Russian River Valley, Rodney Strong Vineyards Director of Winegrowing Douglas McIlroy shared the following report:
Read more..
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Vetrazzo - a Special Touch
Vetrazzo begins with you. When you dispose of your glass bottles into your curbside recycling bin, it ends up at a facility where it is processed by color and glass type.
Once sorted, it's crushed and packaged for companies like Vetrazzo to purchase for reuse. We look for interesting colors and also source from post-industrial glass sources and demolition sites to get an array of options for making slabs.
When then glass arrives to our plant, it's further crushed depending on the slab being made, and mixed with cement, water, and other proprietary ingredients.
Glass comprises 85% of the total product content, so you can expect an extremely durable and gorgeous surface thanks to the big pieces of glass that appear in many of our surfaces. Once a slab color is mixed, it's poured into a pan and baked (much like making a cake). After the cooking process, the slab undergoes polishing and quality assurance procedures to ensure that every slab leaving our plant meets our quality control requirements.
Right now, it takes almost a month for one slab to be produced. Unlike other surfacing materials, our product receives a lot of human attention from our production team.
From the woman who expertly applies the patina to our patina'd surfaces to the man who carefully monitors each slab's polish, Vetrazzo gets a special touch. You can be assured when you buy Vetrazzo that you are getting a product that many people are passionate about, especially the people who make it.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Zooming in on a dream of sunshine, grapes and wine
From Libby: This is pretty awesome, thank you Google Earth! You should still call me though-I promise I won't make you wait!
You’re thousands of miles and two years from home when your decades-long dream of a creating a vineyard suddenly beckons. You can: 1. Wait; 2. Call a realtor and wait; or 3. Try out a beta-version of a new program called Google Earth and get that dream going yourself. Living in Ireland in 2005, Oregon residents Scott Elder and Stephanie LaMonica went for it. Relying on Google Earth, they found their perfect family farmland -- without ever setting foot on it. In 2006, they planted their vineyard just outside The Dalles, Oregon, a place they never even knew existed.
With the dream of sunshine, grapes and wine pushing him on throughout a dark, blustery Irish winter, Scott, a scientist by education but Kansas farm kid at heart, got to work, poring over the Oregon landscape from thousands of miles away. Like a modern-day explorer, he was looking for the undiscovered gem, a hillside that would grow the distinct wines he had envisioned from his time spent in France years earlier, under the tutelage of noted French wine merchant, Jean-Yves Belin.
Click here to read entire article on Google Earth Stories.
You’re thousands of miles and two years from home when your decades-long dream of a creating a vineyard suddenly beckons. You can: 1. Wait; 2. Call a realtor and wait; or 3. Try out a beta-version of a new program called Google Earth and get that dream going yourself. Living in Ireland in 2005, Oregon residents Scott Elder and Stephanie LaMonica went for it. Relying on Google Earth, they found their perfect family farmland -- without ever setting foot on it. In 2006, they planted their vineyard just outside The Dalles, Oregon, a place they never even knew existed.
With the dream of sunshine, grapes and wine pushing him on throughout a dark, blustery Irish winter, Scott, a scientist by education but Kansas farm kid at heart, got to work, poring over the Oregon landscape from thousands of miles away. Like a modern-day explorer, he was looking for the undiscovered gem, a hillside that would grow the distinct wines he had envisioned from his time spent in France years earlier, under the tutelage of noted French wine merchant, Jean-Yves Belin.
Click here to read entire article on Google Earth Stories.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
Fixed Mortgage Rates Sink to Lowest on Record
Fixed mortgage rates fell to all-time record lows this week following the Federal Reserve’s announcement of “Operation Twist.”
Data released by Freddie Mac Thursday puts the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 4.01 percent (0.7 point)
for the week ending September 29. That’s down from 4.09 percent last week. A year ago at this time, the 30-year rate averaged 4.32 percent.
Of the five regions surveyed in Freddie Mac’s survey, the West region recorded the lowest average rate for the 30-year fixed dipping below the 4 percent to 3.95 percent this week.
The 15-year fixed-rate averaged 3.28 percent (0.7 point) this week in the GSE’s survey, down from last week’s average of 3.29 percent. A year ago at this time, the 15-year rate was 3.75 percent.
Freddie Mac’s survey averages mortgage rates from 125 lenders across the country.
Data released by Freddie Mac Thursday puts the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 4.01 percent (0.7 point)
for the week ending September 29. That’s down from 4.09 percent last week. A year ago at this time, the 30-year rate averaged 4.32 percent.
Of the five regions surveyed in Freddie Mac’s survey, the West region recorded the lowest average rate for the 30-year fixed dipping below the 4 percent to 3.95 percent this week.
The 15-year fixed-rate averaged 3.28 percent (0.7 point) this week in the GSE’s survey, down from last week’s average of 3.29 percent. A year ago at this time, the 15-year rate was 3.75 percent.
Freddie Mac’s survey averages mortgage rates from 125 lenders across the country.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
These homes are gorgeous and can be put up on-site in one day and completed in less than two weeks
Breezehouse's signature glass-enclosed breezeway or porch blurs the boundary between interior and exterior living.
- 1 level
- starting at $495,000
- 3-4 bedrooms
- 3 baths
- 56' x 64'
Monday, September 26, 2011
Exciting to see the progress!
Backstory » Emeryville Renovation: Part 3
Posted: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:04:36 -0700
by Peter Benoit
In our latest Backstory series, we'll be previewing the loft renovation that is the featured My House in Dwell's November issue—our first-ever online sneak peek. Here, Emeryville, California architect Peter Benoit shares the process behind customizing the San Francisco Bay area loft he shares with his wife, Lynda. Check out Part 1: As it Was, Part 2: Drawings and Demolition, and now, Part 3: Construction. Now that the demo was pretty much done, I started construction of the wood box. I decided that I was going to build it myself to save money on labor more than anything else.
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