koko's corner

After the "Great blackout of '11" I was able to toddle up to Laguna Niguel to visit with my friends Squeaks and Bill.

Squeaks and I had full agenda for the weekend, one thing being finding me a long black skirt for the Victorian tea at church. I figured a thrift store would be a great place to find what I needed so we hit up a few thrift shops, one being Portobello Road in Tustin. Dang, what a great place, I got an impeccable white wind breaker/rain jacket for only $3.00, yup, that’s right, 3 bucks and it benefits a woman’s abuse shelter.

In one shop we had a blast checking out the kitchenware area.

Along with some old kitchenware this shop also had a lot of old records, even some 78's. 

After a busy day we picked up a beautiful piece of Coho salmon from the Santa Monica Seafood Company to go along with the Cacio e Pepe we were planning on making. It’s so easy and so delicious it’s almost criminal.

I'll show you what we did. 

During our 10 hour power outage we were fortunately hooked up to a generator and I was able to use my computer. I took it as an opportunity to filter through some old photos, so here's a few I thought I'd share with you. 

No particular reason, or order, just a few cute photos. This is part of the animal edition. ;-)

Scooter and Smoky on guard

Smoky likes peas, she eats the tender innards then spits out the tougher shell

Isn't that the cutest pig snout you've ever seen

Yes, I did get down and dirty to get this shot, but I just love that snout. 

I took this right after CA passed the no texting while driving law.

Nothing says you can't text and ride though. 

And that's that

I wanted to take a potato salad to a potluck I attended at the park last week. I didn't want to take a mayonnaise dressed potato salad and have it sitting around on a hot day, so I got busy looking for non-mayo ideas for dressing a potato salad.

After rambling through a couple of cooking magazines I found the perfect one in the July-August issue of Food Network Magazine. The magazine has a little "fly out" booklet with 50 great potato salad ideas and I snagged one, the Bagna Cauda idea. 

Got anchovies? then come on...