Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Today will obviously be full of eating. We are spending the day ay my uncle’s house with cousins and their kids. There are vegetarians and meat eaters alike, so we will have quite the spread, from potato and cheese pierogies and olive tapenade on crostini to the traditional turkey meal. There will also be lots of wine from our Gundlach Bundschu wine club. Photos will follow! I am thankful for so many things this year, starting with all of my amazing family members, my husband, our cats and our home, our friends, our cabinets full of food, and the opportunities we have had in life. I often look at our cabinets after grocery shopping and am thankful for the fact that we can pretty much eat whatever we want, within reason, and never ever worry about going hungry. We are lucky to be able to travel often and to have had the means and education to get jobs that help us have all of these things, even if said jobs make us uber frustrated at times. 🙂 I am also lucky to have so many opportunities to give back through volunteering and fundraising, and I am always looking to make time to do more. Over the next few months, as part of my Thankful for Thirty posts, I hope to bring to light a variety of causes that I care about and to give them the exposure that I think they deserve. I don’t want to be preachy or overuse my blog as a charity platform, but today’s as good as any day to mention my 2010 Boston Marathon fundraising for The ALLY Foundation: https://www.firstgiving.com/meghanmalloyteamally I hope you are all safely where you want to be today and are giving thanks as well. I am certainly thankful for all of you, for the growth of this blog over the last six months, and for the community that it has introduced me to! Have a great Thanksgiving, and I will be back later stuffed and full of photos!
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Leaving wine country to return to the real world is difficult, and so we dragged out our time there a bit longer by stopping once again at Gloria Ferrer. You may remember this winery from our last trip to California. For me, Gloria Ferrer is to Sonoma what Mumm is to Napa, extraordinarily relaxing and scenic with outstanding sparkling wines at reasonable prices, friendly staff, and a real sense of welcome. Gloria Ferrer is another one of those wineries on a hill, affording those lucky enough to visit a spectacular view of the vineyards below.
Having visited before, we knew exactly what we wanted, two flutes of Va de Vi and two bubbly filled chocolates. Taken in one bite, they explode with flavor both from the enclosed wine and the rich milk chocolate. In addition to my birth year wine, I hope a tray of Gloria Ferrer chocolates will find their way into the celebrations next year 😉
Once you order at Gloria Ferrer, you can take a seat on the expansive patio, and your wine is brought out with a bowl of spicy almonds which pairs very well with the crispness of the Va de Vi. We both breathed a nice long sigh, looking at the valley below and wanting to stay. Our drive back to San Francisco was quick, so we still had some time before we needed to go to the airport. We stopped in North Beach and wandered around a bit, finally deciding on The Sushi Hunter for dinner. We ordered a green salad with house dressing, steamed shrimp shu mai, a spicy tuna roll, a Philadelphia roll, and a devil roll which was a spicy fried tuna roll with 3 spicy sauces.
The salad was nothing special in that it was just iceberg lettuce, carrots, and a tiny bit of red cabbage. However, the dressing was gingery and delicious. The shu mai were possibly the best I have ever had, and the sushi was very fresh. I especially enjoyed the devil roll which combined an excellent crunch with a kick of spice. North Beach had so many restaurants, and I really want to try them all, but I was happy with our choice. We dropped the Zipcar off, got on the BART, and made our way to the airport. . . already looking forward to returning!
Tags: Food, sushi, Travel, wine, wine country
Happy day before Thanksgiving everyone! Since our last Boston blogger get together, I have been thinking of the idea of a Boston blogger food crawl to try a variety of restaurants together. With the weather starting to get colder and the logistics involved in such an event, I have started to think that a crawl might be a better spring event. That will give me some time to reach out to restaurants to see if they might even be interested in hosting appetizers or something if we buy drinks. Looking forward to that, I would also love to get together with some of you this holiday season. I happen to LOVE going to holiday tea, and I thought that might be a fun way for us bloggers to get together before everyone goes off for the various winter holidays. Would any of you be interested in holiday tea on December 13/14? Lots of places offer it, but I was thinking possibly of Upstairs on the Square. The cost is $28 for standard tea and $35 for tea with champagne (which I will definitely be getting! ;)) The Boston Harbor Hotel also offers a beautiful holiday tea which I have been to many times. I am open to locations, but it would need to be a place that could accommodate all of us. Because these types of things do require reservations, I am asking that you please email me at traveleatlove2009@hotmail.com by Saturday. I know its not much time, but I would love to get a count and lock us in somewhere! Please let me know in the email what day works best for you. I hope we can get a good group together to toast to the season and to all of the new contacts that our blogs have brought us!
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