Go-To Salad
June 1
This is a salad we normally have three or four times a week so I always have the ingredients on hand and don’t have to think about them when making a grocery list. I throw all the ingredients in a large bowl, add dressing, and spoon onto plates.
Serves 2.
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Mount Tamalpais
Mount Tam, as it is known locally, is the center of Marin County. Not geographically, but being the highest peak of the Marin Hills, it is like a beacon leading us Marinites home from San Francisco.
The mountain is surrounded by national park areas offering up to forty miles of publically accessible open space. Mt. Tam was create by the uplifting, and folding of the North American plate as it slides along the Pacific plate near the San Andreas Fault. Does this mean we could one day loose our beacon?
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Meet Marin County
Marin County, the home of my Briana Kaleigh Mystery Series, is located on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. The county is one of the original 27 counties created in 1850 by the first California charter.
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R.I.P. Italian Kitchen
Growing up in the provincial west end of Richmond Virginia, there were many events to jar a young girl’s foothold. New schools popping up yearly, good friends moving away, and always the overshadowing “family problems.”
So when I tell you there was one constant that brought us all together—family, friends, teams—you might remember such a constant in your own youth. For me this constant was Italian Kitchen.
New Year’s Resolutions
Another New Year is upon us as we gear up for the monumental changes we plan to make in the months ahead. Have you made your resolutions yet? Or is your list secret and hidden in the recesses of your mind? Are you one who says, “I don’t make resolutions,” yet sets out for a jog on Jan 1 to burn off holiday food when you’ve never jogged before? Or maybe you’ve bought a journal with a lock and key to write down your deepest, darkest thoughts in an effort to gain more control over your life.
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