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Dan and I went to an overlooked British Pub in Sherman Oaks last night, on the corner of Woodman and Burbank Blvd called Robin Hood. There’s a small Friar Tuck shoppe in there, too, where you can get ceramic knick-knacks, buck-teeth and whatnot, but we didn’t check it out.
Dan heard about it from a homey [...]

With summertime weather taking us outside, it is time for firing up the grill outside!
Jonah got us going on this track with his positive report on TJ’s Carne Asada.
I’m definitely going to give that a try sometime this summer!
However, what if you and your guests are yearning for sausages? Where do you go [...]

It was already 11:30am and my girlfriend’s baby shower tea rose garden party started at noon. I had thirty minutes to find somewhere to park. I was driving Northbound on Raymond Avenue, trying to find the cute little nook of a flower shop and restaurant where I was to meet the other girls! The parking [...]

Given the legend of Finn McCool and the Salmon of Knowledge, it’s only appropriate that one can now play pub trivia every Sunday night at 8 PM at Finn McCool’s on Main Street in Santa Monica.
Finn’s main claim to fame is that it was painstakingly taken apart in Dublin and reassembled in Santa Monica after [...]

So, I haven’t posted for a while because I’ve been pretty busy compiling a cookbook of treasured family recipes.
It’s taken a lot longer than I thought it would, to test and photograph about 20 recipes from my sisters, my Mum, her brother (Uncle Ray) and a couple of my cousins.
The sensational recipes I [...]

January 25 was the birthday of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, which means that Scots everywhere are obliged to throw roaring parties where they read the “Address to a Haggis” and consume vast quantities of sheep parts and whisky. Such a celebration requires a trip to the Continental Shop.
First on the list is a [...]

Roasting a goose is quite an undertaking.
I discovered it is, at least, a three-day affair!
You might want to make sure the large roasting pan fits your oven before you embark upon this event…
Facts: A 12+ pound bird would serve about 8 people, max.
I obtained mine from Puritan Poultry at the Fairfax/3rd St Farmers [...]

Mother-in-law is in town, so this week we took her to the fancy Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills for afternoon tea.
Wonderful ambiance – nice opportunity to dress sharp – reasonably good service. I have a few tiny quibbles, but nothing major.
Well, take the booking process. Phoned the day before for a [...]