A Lavender Lover’s Guide to Sonoma County
June is lavender month in Sonoma County. Here are some of the ways you can enjoy the fragrant flower in the fields, at the spa, even in your food and drinks.
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Our Most Watched Videos 2016
Here's a selection of some of our favorite, and most popular, videos from 2016.
Fussy Cookies
Cooking with flowers has never thrilled me. Call me crazy, but not once have I thought, “You know what this salad needs? Nasturtiums!” I leave the blossoms in the garden and call it a day. Then along came a lavender bush...A guest post by Katie Githens. You can follow Ms. Githens on her own blog, Clary Sage, where she writes about the quirks and comforts of cooking and life on the West Coast.
Fighting Scurvy, One Gimlet at a Time
I'm not a big drinker of cocktails in general, and I'm even less of a drinker of gin. That being said, cocktails clearly have their place: Less so with food, and more before - or after, or occasionally instead of; as an alternative to beer, when the weather or environs don't seem conducive to wine; and certainly, as a welcome to guests who have just endured the Bay Area's northbound assault on wine country traffic
It’s Happy Hour Somewhere
It's Friday afternoon, the sun has won its daily battle with the fog, and I'm making cocktails. Never let it be said that the Proximal Kitchen does not count booze as a food group.