The best part about summer…

Breakfast: Greek non-fat yogurt, farmer’s market berries, bananas, honey, maple pecan granola

Mi casa: farmer’s market sweet white corn-basil soup.

Mi casa: farmers market ratatouille is totally happening: heirloom tomatoes, baby eggplant, zucchini, summer squash, onion, garlic, bay leaf, home-grown basil

Hayes valley, SF. Lobster/clam boil!!

Ritz staff meal: fully load baked potato, grilled ribeye w/tomato-cilantro compote, creamed spinach, iceberg salad w/thousand island (couldn’t fit in picture)…we dont mess around here. I love my co-workers!

Tartine bakery: mission, SF. Breakfast: banana cream tart w/chocolate shavings and my favorite chocolate croissant with Mary!

Katz deli: lower east side, NY. Housemade pickles, corned beef on rye, pastrami on rye…delish!

Arizmendi: mission, SF. Just might be my new favorite SF cookie, chunky chocolate chips, crispy yet chewy, not overly sweet.

Zazie: Cole valley, SF. Stuffed french toast w/caramelized bananas and walnuts. And an outdoor patio in the sunshine!

Mission, SF: Chilean empanadas off 16th and mission.

Mission dist, SF: the most amazing pupusas on 17th?

Cherry and peach picking: Brentwood, CA. Enos cherry farm and Peter wolfe peach farm. Time to make pie and jam!!

Trouble: outer sunset, sf. Starting the morning w/a bike ride to the beach, a fresh coconut, and banana bread. I love SF.

Soup Mama’s house: inner sunset, sf. Onion soup — lots of caramelized onions, acme sour batard, cave aged Gruyere.

Outerlands: outer sunset, sf. Best grilled cheese with cauliflower-cardoon soup!

Hot Cookie: Castro, SF. Some of the best cookies around! I just had these hand delivered to my front door-step for breakfast! (they do not deliver, find your own cute delivery girl!)

Citizen cake: filmore, SF. Cant wait to try the Chilean alfajores cookies!

Blowfish: the ultimate - spicy tuna, pickled cucumber, pickled jalapeños, a whole lot of other pickled spicy lovin’.

Blowfish: next best thing to a burrito! Thanks boifriend!