Recently we had the opportunity to visit the windy city of Chicago during a girl’s getaway weekend. Liza and I had never been and were pleasantly surprised by the 80 degree weather and blooming tulips that graced every flowerbed, of which there were many. One of the amazing things about this city is the amount [...]

Sweet yet savory, firm to the touch yet soft and creamy to the tongue – cheesecake is full of yummy contradictions. Recently, we took a traditional cheesecake recipe (from my 7th grade Home Economics class – yes, I still have the recipes), and added a chocolate twist to it. We used Oreo cookies for the [...]

After catching up with another fashionable person, Melissa McElhatton Davis, the founder of Ruby Press PR agency, we realized that fashionable people have certain things in common. Fashionable people are never slaves to fashion. They never buy what’s trendy and new just because everyone is wearing it. They see fashion as a smaller particle of [...]

Having lived on the West Coast my whole life, the opportunity to experience real southern Cajun cooking is rare. This past Saturday I experienced my first crawfish boil, and probably my first authentic Cajun cooking, courtesy of Yon Davis of Yats. Having never attended a crawfish boil, nor eaten crawfish, three of us crawfish virgins [...]

(photos from StockholmStreetStyle and Jak & Jil blog) Although warmer weather is upon us, I can’t help but be drawn towards these images. Maybe it’s because I recently purchased a vintage black fur vest from Jeremy’s on College Ave in Berkeley that I am in love with. Thankfully in San Francisco, we still have a [...]

Since embarking on a quest to eat less carbs, we’ve been on a search for different ways to eat fresh ingredients since the usual salad can get old real fast. We came across a Shrimp and Avocado salad recipe from Jenn’s Cruisine and we were inspired to make it since her picture looked sooo damn [...]