by niccolapiccola | Apr 16, 2015 | beverages, cheese and wine, food, restaurants
I’m back from the most terrific birthday celebration I’ve had to date and I have the city of San Francisco to thank for it! Being a city girl myself, I made sure that we saw as much of the city as we could while checking off some adventures on our...
by niccolapiccola | Nov 19, 2014 | books, breakfast, Eating Italian, restaurants
No seriously. How can you actually expect me to like you or even love you for that matter if you don’t like pizza? Who doesn’t like pizza? It’s like ice cream, everyone wants it all the time and if we could, we’d eat it for breakfast, lunch and...
by niccolapiccola | Jul 30, 2014 | cheese and wine, parties!, Quick dinner ideas, restaurants, salads
I love it when new restaurants open in town… it’s a rarity around here in the Nickel Cities but in Chicago, where I moved from, a new spot would pop up weekly it seemed! So when I suggested to Andy that we try out the new Comfort Market in the Village this...
by niccolapiccola | May 27, 2014 | cheese and wine, Eating Italian, food, restaurants
I’m baaaaaaack! Greetings Yummy Yogini readers! I made it safely back from NYC where I was for five glorious days and where we ate like kings, shopped like queens and drank wine like we hadn’t left the Central Coast! We stayed in a very generous...
by niccolapiccola | May 6, 2014 | books, breakfast, gardening and plants, restaurants, salads
I was thrilled to look out upon my plants this morning and see that I have a ton of spinach ready to pick. Nothing beats the satisfaction of having grown my own food, in my own backyard. It’s like my own private Farmer’s Market! I eat a lot of spinach so...
by niccolapiccola | Apr 8, 2014 | Quick dinner ideas, restaurants
Oh hi there! I’ve just returned from a trip to Los Angeles, mine and Andy’s first official weekend off since moving here in October of 2011. Hard to believe I got him away from the restaurant on a Saturday right? We got an early...
