In love with spring!

Spring. I’m in love with spring. I’m in love with spring produce. It is officially spring, but I continue to count the days until spring produce. I am obsessed with delicate little green English peas and those difficult to prepare but seriously yummy fava beans.... Continue

What’s cooking Sonoma?

A new “Star” in Glen Ellen Opening soon in downtown Glen Ellen, is a sure-to-be-tasty new eatery named Glen Ellen Star. Housed in the charming little building that was home to Saffron for many years, the Star is the brainchild of husband and wife duo... Continue

Cookbook Club: Kristin’s kind of book club

I like to read as much as the next gal, possibly even more than most, but when it came to organizing a book club, I knew it just had to be a “Cookbook Club.” What began more than two years ago as a way to... Continue

Living “la dolce vita” at ESTATE

“La dolce vita.” In Italian, it literally means the “the sweet life,” but in Italy it is simply a way of living, of slowing down and literally enjoying the small, beautiful, everyday stuff that makes up life. Very much like in Italy, here in Sonoma,... Continue

Crab season

It’s right about now that I begin to panic. We’re a bit more than halfway through Dungeness crab season and I am just not sure that I have eaten enough of those sweet, meaty, hard-shelled beauties. Oh, how I love Dungeness crab! It has only... Continue

What Kristin can’t stop eating, right now

I go through phases of craving certain foods, getting on a kick of preparing or dining out on a certain thing every day for days on end before I am tired of it, finally moving on to the next thing. Doesn’t everyone do this? Oh... Continue

Dear Kenwood Inn: a love letter

Originally, this column was going to be a simple list consisting of my favorite spots locally to snuggle up with yummy food and my sweetie on Valentine’s Day. I was going to share with you how romantic it is to cuddle in front of the... Continue

Olive you Sonoma

As last week’s rains remind us of the many cold, grey days still to come this winter, I am strangely not at all sad. We have so many delicious reasons to love our Northern California winters! Besides the fact that it’s Dungeness crab season and... Continue

Lunch with the girls: Petaluma’s Della Fattoria

What brought me to Petaluma the very first time were the rumors that there was some pretty fabulous antiquing to be done there. There definitely is, I love those shops over there, but what keeps me going back time and time again are the great... Continue

Football, festivities and plenty of good food

I experienced a startling revelation this month. I like football. I really do. I can imagine my family and long time friends are open mouthed, shocked, in disbelief at this very moment. I never really thought too much about football. I didn’t “not like it,”... Continue