Jury duty, cocktails, and ramen

Met Kara and Lynn at Southpaw BBQ for my current fave cocktail -- the Hunny Bunny (red pepper, carrot, and orange juice, agave, and mezcal with a cayenne salt rim).

Followed by ramen at Bar Tartine for Hapa Ramen's pop-up.

Red & Gold

The Ferry Building

Coit Tower

Offices Downtown

The city was lit up with red and gold for the 49ers NFC Championship game. The city looked great. The 49ers? Not so much.

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Saturday Baking

Morning walk to climb the stairs in the neighborhood. View from the top of Grandview Park. After the walk I met Eleanor for breakfast at the Manor Coffee Shop (aka The Old Lady Cafe)

Baking experiments! Bourbon brown butter brownies, anyone?

After all of this I met up with Becca where we had a crazy night galavanting around the Marina. That's right, the Marina!

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Friday Fun

Lunch excursion to Pearl's for burgers with Paige, Mike, & Elliott

Drinks, food, and good times at Jen's with Becca, Jeni, and Jen.

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Dinner with Kara

Wine, pizza, and catching up with Kara at Local

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Civic Center Farmer's Market

In search of quince. No luck, but I did buy some lemongrass to play with.

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Sun setting over Ocean Beach

I took a walk in my neighborhood tonight before the sun set. (Yay for the days getting ever-so-slightly longer!) This is a view of the sun setting over Ocean Beach taken from Granville Park (aka Turtle Hill). Now I really need to motivate and work on some personal projects. I've been putzing around too much since I've gotten back from my walk.

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The Fancy Foods Show

Anna eats meat now! This is still weird to me.

Spices!

How ridiculously cute are these cookies?!

Allegedly these are the hot trends in pastry for 2012

Love these thimbles that come in boxes of Japanese cookies

It's a drink shower!

Slap "Brooklyn" on your label and you have an instant best seller! Seriously, though, I really liked these Brooklyn Brine Co. pickles and the founder/maker of the pickles was super nice.

All of the pickles at the show made me think of the "We can pickle that" skit from last week's Season 2 opener of Portlandia. Have you scene it yet? If not, report to this video immediately. Also, in Googling the video clip I discovered that Portlandia created a way to "pickle" websites. Check out what my blog looks like pickled!

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A weekend full of baking

The wedding cake I made for my friend Liz's wedding

Cupcakes I made for a workshop at The Teahouse Studio

Anna made the super cute signs for me

The Teahouse Studio is a super cute space and they offer a lot of great workshops -- I know, I attended one!

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Housewarming Party

My manager's cute house in Bernal Heights

Loved this fabric bowl filled with yarn

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Dinner with Eleanor

Dinner tonight with Eleanor at Tommaso's to celebrate Friday the 13th

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Bottles of Bitters at the Burritt Room

Drinks at the Burritt Room (my current fave bar in SF) with Olga and her fun friends followed by hanging out with the girls at JJ's place.

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