More Beach Blogging via Leo Caillard

Where have you gone off to?

Are you with friends?

How's the weather?  Did you take a good book with you?

When will you be back?

How's your tan?

I found these on this lovely blog:  To find out more about these "Miami Houses" and the photographer, click: Leo Caillard.

Mission Accomplished!

So we found that pool we needed - yesterday after dim sum with good friends.  Ahhhh!  YES!

That notwithstanding, if anyone can identify this location for me between now and tomorrow, I will go DIRECTLY to the airport and hop on a plane to it.   I found the photo at Cizlou here.

Something Entirely Different Weekend Post

Well, different from the earlier posts of the week.

What are you doing to keep cool????

It's been really hot in L.A. this week.  The good news and the bad news is that most shopping areas and museums have a lot of outdoor areas.  What we really want today is somewhere very cool and completely inside to chill in. 

Like this.  My idea is for eating sorbets and consuming cool drinks.   And you've guessed it right, we don't have a pool......... 

Have a great rest of the weekend wherever you are!

(Sorry, no photo credit, but I found it at Vosges Paris here.)

Jimtown Grocery, Alexander Valley

Somewhere between Sonoma and Napa Valleys

on a lonely stretch of curving road....open to much of nothing but the sky, to vines marching away as far as the eye can see,  and a deep separation of mountains........

I had a dream of life.  A somewhat lonely but not sinister "Postman Always Rings Twice" kind of life.

Of relentless sun and solitude, and occasional - and only occasionally - friendly - strangers stopping in to relieve the stillness of the hour.

I, or someone, would have made something delicious in the back - and there would be somewhere cool

for those weary workers or traveler-type strangers to rest their feet.

It would be a place of the unsuspected, of curiosities.....with little expectation that anyone would want to carry something of any of it away with them. 

I would be well satisfied to keep said curiosities for myself.

Especially these.  I would let my visitors take tasty little snacks, and cheap clever gadgets away with them.  Instead.

I would not be very happy, when, by the 21st century, I had acquired (my first, ever)  neighbors.  Even if they did have very groovy chairs.

(Jimtown Grocery:  Find out more here.  Photo below, Jimtown Store website)   

 

Hog Island Oysters

On the shores of beautiful, beautiful Tomales Bay.  Find out more here.

This Weekend

Here's what we made and ate.

Schiaccata all'uva.  You can't have late summer and champagne grapes without it.

Inspired by Jim Lahey of Sullivan St. Bakery in NYC.  We used to go there nearly every weekend for bread and pizzas year after year and the schiaccata was an annual must-have.  (Available only in late July and August.)  They have just finally opened a space on 9th Ave. in Chelsea. Here's the menu.  The recipe comes from this book:  My Bread.  

And here's a video of Jim Lahey (and another NY pizza maker) showing you how to get your pie into the oven properly. 

When you don't live in NYC and aren't able to get a good slice on every street corner, you start to obsess about pizza. So far L.A. is not measuring up except for Mozza.  That's coming from Mr. Paradis.  

WHAT DID YOU EAT?

(And p.s.:  what did I tell you about "Mootz-a-rell?!")

All I Want For Friday

When I lived in New York, about this time of year I would get a little crazy

and desperately need a little something just like this.

Now that I live in L.A. where we have lovely summers, I'm not so crazy.  But I still want one of these.  In FRANCE of course!

Is it asking soooooooooo much?

HAPPY WEEKEND!

(Pics via All The Mountains)