I like to bake.  It started when I was in elementary school. My dad used to make these killer cornflake cookies( I think I still have the recipe). I know, it’s usually mom–I never said my family was anything near conventional but that’s another story.   Anyway, over the years I discovered I have a knack for baking and the uncanny ability to pick recipes out of a cookbook. Come on, when you buy cookbooks not all of the recipes are winners. So I’ve decided that you all will be my …

For the past several weeks I have been doing promos with the bellman, valet and front desk employees of various hotels to promote our new restaurant–Star Noodle.  Basically I invite  them to dine at our communal table and try a variety of our shared plates and house made noodles.  Restaurants usually invite the guests then have the manager stop by the table at some point and say “Hi.”  Not us. What makes it more intimate, I actually sit and dine with them.  For a lot of the hospitality industry …

Now what’s for dinner? Off to Safeway to look….

Maratthon baking–lemon bars, choc peanut butter chip cookies, energy bars and @curiouschef’s apple cake–its still in the oven