Life as a Chef's Wife: October 2010

life as a chef's wife does have some perks.

no doubt the obvious is a "personal chef"

I say that as casually as possible because countless times when I would love & need to have him to cater for me, he was catering elsewhere.

However, I have never had to cook an entire holiday meal in all my 18 years as an adult.

I get to pick & choose what I'd like to make

{and of course those requests :}

which really is a perk to be able to make what your inspired to instead of a whole meal.

The other obvious perk is he can make anything.

yes.

ANY thing.

anything I desire

anything I've had before & wish again

anything I crave

anything I see

anything I read about

{insert here. have I mentioned my magazine fedish? well, that's another post}

yes it its lovely to have my chef.

another perk is events.

mostly we go

he works

i wander & look for other solo partners of other "workers" to act as a group date.

The other less often but seriously good perk is meeting other chefs.

We actually know a lot as you can imagine.

Both around our neck of the woods and all over really.

Like in May when we went to Disney Food & Wine event, met up with our friend Danielle (whom we adore) who was there with Anne Burrell & her side kick Cocktail making Celebrity.

good times be had @ The Mouse House.

Of course knowing where to call when you need a favor. Again perk.

Last year Pebble Beach Food & Wine event. Oh my the fun. Oh my the perks (my perks, my chef worked his A** off!) The 4 day event started like this and had more of this. Too much fun. well, not tooooooo much :)

This last week we had the invitation to congratulate friends on a new & wonderful cookbook.

In order to make a Wednesday night work,

we loaded the whole fam for a much much needed adventure.

Out of town.

Still "working"

This is what that looked like

HA!

Lists emails voicemails texts 2 phones & 1 ipad.

Can you tell we needed a break???

Then we got to the fun part

but had to travel past this

Huge day for Giants....so close to the action but no tickets :(

OH how I love The Ferry Building.

It has

Slanted Door

Gott's

Boulettes Larder

and much much more.

But we will be there in 2 weeks, so we drove on.

The ever lovely & breath taking Golden Gate

[since we took the kids outta school to "adventure" we used this opportunity for a physics lesson & history lesson]

There is never a time it hasn't awed me.

About 10 minutes past is a small darling town called

Mill Valley

we found a room {large one for our crew!}

at Mill Valley Inn

it was top floor of a house

kids loved the balcony in the redwoods.

I loved the smell.

Fresh Forest with Fog Wisps.

then we ventured around the town.

B on his bike.

Tyler Florence Shop

Summer House Shop

street florist (I LOVE this green color!)

I know. I know, lame- me taking pictures of butter. BUT look

all those different kinds of butter!!!

European

French

Irish

English

OH my!

my sweet kiddos got in the mood from all this yumminess. They grocery shopped for their night in the Inn.

And being that they are wonderful & we DID just venture through SF

It was time for ITs ITs.

Please tell me you've had this ice cream oatmeal cookie chocolate dipped goodness.

He hadn't before.

The room

and back to my story of perks.

SO we were graciously invited to the shop for a friends & family Book Release Party
It was so fun to stroll just around the corner from the Inn
shop was closed
but filled with friends & other Mill Valley-ites :)

Have you seen the book?

Even my chef who has 400+ cookbooks was impressed & looked it over cover to cover