Tobia Ziklik

Last week on NPR, they had a panel discussing the things you can do to prep your garden before spring arrives, and one of the panelists was Rebecca from Full Circle Farm.

Arnon and I visited Full Circle Farm in late November. It’s located just a few miles from our house, in a completely residential area. So bizarre!

You can buy fresh vegetables and eggs there, so we plan on going there regularly, for Arnon’s sake of course. They don’t sell bacon, so I’m not their target customer.

On Sunday, Jason and Wes hosted an Oscars viewing at their place (which has awesome views of the city). Jason prepared a lovely mahi-mahi and flank steak dinner, preceded by steak, tofu and lobster sushi rolls and sake-tinis. Scrumptious!

We were also introduced to Malva Pudding, which looks like super-moist cake, but is in fact a gift from the gods.

Here are a couple of photos from last year’s Oscars viewing, hosted at Richard’s house:

By now, you’re familiar with my North Beach routine, which pretty much runs like this: pre-dinner cocktails + dinner + dessert + serious drinks + pizza slices + glazed donuts. It’s a lot to consume, I know, but fun, until you have to be rolled home at the end of the night.

On Saturday, we tried to mix things up with a simpler plan: chicken dinner + martini happy hour. As it turned out, we ended up having a second dinner of sushi after martinis. We’re a gluttinous lot!

I was eager to move on to dessert and more drinks, but we had to call it a night on account of one member of our party having one too many martinis. Still, props to him for his awesome martini-hour-appropriate attire.

Also, thanks to whoever took all these photos.