Thoughts of a Middle Aged Man

Yes I turned fifty on the 3rd of this month, and now it is 17 days later and I am finally blogging about that momentous day. It wasn’t that I had a hard time accepting being 50 that caused me to wait to blog about the day; it was just it was a normal, slightly [...]

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Felix Restaurant, in Cabo San Lucas, bills the salsa bar as the world’s longest salsa bar. I am not sure its the longest, but with 26 salsas available, it definitely has great variety. Our dinner at Felix’s was only one of the highlights of a mini family vacation in the town at the [...]

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Ok, so I wasn’t bowled over with Bobby Flay’s Mesa Grill (but his recipes are still wonderful). For our other pre-theater dinner, we booked reservations at Kellari Taverna, an upscale Greek restaurant on 44th Street. We had heard that their prefix dinner was a great deal, but I was more interested in taking my [...]

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For our trip to New York, I did a lot of investigating of restaurants to complement our daily adventures. I wanted to go to Babbo’s, Mario Batali’s place in the Village, but we couldn’t score a reservation, so I secured a reservation at Mesa Grill, Bobby Flay’s flagship place. Its on 5th [...]

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What could be better, four days of exploration of all things New York city has to offer. Landscapes, history, entertainment, and dining pleasures. We arrived late Thursday night and checked into the Helmsley Hotel on 42nd Street. I quick walk to pick up some .99 cent per slice New York style pizza [...]

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After my daughter left for New Zealand and then my son went off to college, I started cooking dinner for just my wife and I. Cooking for two was hard. I was still making two much food each night. Leftovers were going uneaten. I was finding it hard to cut recipes down [...]

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I spent a few days in Oregon visiting a few of my remote employees and took advantage of the trip and my wife flew up on Friday and we enjoyed a lovely weekend in northern Oregon. After picking her up at the airport we drove to the Pearl District and had a wonderful [...]

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We made another trip up north to pick up my wine shipment from Tablas Creek this last weekend. We left Friday evening and stopping for a quick meal in Camarillo, we made it to San Luis Obispo relatively early. We have some generous friends who lent us their condo that they bought in [...]

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We held our second annual St. Patty’s day party on Saturday. The first annual consisted of a total of 6 people and a six pack of Guinness. The party expanded this year to a total of 14, so the third annual could be a whopping 28. This year extravaganza included traditional Irish [...]

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Annette picked up a video camera this weekend, and I made a little cooking video based on the Spinach Ruben Sandwich that we had for dinner tonight. We are new at this and I hope we get better on upcoming videos. Enjoy

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