Sonoma County & Beyond Archives - Page 2 of 4

Jun
24

Russian River – Our Place in the Summer

Posted in "Perennially Speaking", Sonoma County & Beyond, Travel/Explore

When I was a kid growing up in San Francisco, it seemed like everyone I knew had their summer “place.” A place where families headed every summer FOR the summer...
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May
17

Pomo Canyon Red Hill Hike Near Jenner

Posted in Sonoma County & Beyond, Travel/Explore Tagged California State Parks, Sonoma County

How many opportunities could one have to experience a 6-mile hike along a trade route used by Native Pomo and Miwok Indians? One of the many gifts of living in...
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Apr
26

White wines served at the cheesemaking class.

Intimidated by Wine Tasting

Posted in Food, Sonoma County & Beyond Tagged Bedrock, Benziger, Bucklin, California Red Wines, California Wine, Cline, Copploa, Corner 103, Corner 103 Wine Tasting, Decoy Wines, Enkidu, Highway 12, Imagery, Kendall-Jackson, LaCrema, Luna Vineyards, Macmurray, Muscardini, Nicholson Ranch, Proxy, Rodney Strong, Schug, Sonoma County, Sonoma county wines, Sonoma Plaza, Sonoma Tasting Experience, Sonoma Wine Bar, Sonoma Wine Gifts, Sonoma Wine Tasting, wine, Wine tasting, Wine Tasting Party

I have a confession. I have spent a great deal of my time in Sonoma County for the last 20 years and I'm still intimidated by wine tasting. I always...
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Apr
13

Sonoma County She Shed

Posted in Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond Tagged a room of one's own, backyard shed, Country living, Day bed, daybed, painted porcelain, she shed, sheshed, Sonoma, sonoma she shed, sonomacounty, toile, typing table, vintage, vintage porcelain, women's shed

When we bought our cottage in 1997, I certainly never envisioned a Sonoma County She Shed in my future. In fact, I had never even heard the term as "she...
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Mar
9

The Historic Sonoma Plaza

Posted in Sonoma County & Beyond, Travel/Explore

One of my very first memories of visiting the North Bay as a child include driving down Broadway in a station wagon the size of a small boat and waiting...
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Feb
19

El Verano depot, Courtesy of UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

El Verano History

Posted in Sonoma County & Beyond, Travel/Explore Tagged arrowheads, El Verano, El Verano Sonoma, El Verano Sonoma County, George Maxwell, Miwok, Native Americans, Pomo, Sonoma, Sonoma County, Sonoma Creek, Wappo

El Verano history can be traced back to the first inhabitants of the area - the Miwok, Wappo and Pomo Indian tribes who lived along Sonoma Creek. The local landscape...
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Feb
7

Epicurean Connection’s Sonoma Cheese Making Class

Posted in Food, Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond Tagged Ben Sessions, Buena Vista Winery, cheese, cheese making, cheesemaking class, Delice de la Vallee, Epicurean Connection, General Vallejo, General's Daughter, Marian Guadalupe Vallejo, Ricotta, Ricotta cheese, Rumiano, Rumiano cheese, Sheana Davis, Sonoma, Sonoma Cheesemaking class, Three Sticks, Three Sticks Wine, Three Sticks Wines, Valley Ford Cheese, Valley Ford Cheese & Creamery, Valley Ford Highway 1 cheese

Normally, a Sonoma cheese making class would not even cause a blip on my radar because I would simply assume that it would be way beyond my limited culinary abilities....
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Jan
21

Sonoma’s Vintage 5 & Dime Tiddle E. Winks

Posted in Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond Tagged 5 & Dime, five-and ten, five-and-dime, Flood Building, Flood Building in San Francisco, Powell and Market Streets, San Francisco, shop local, Sonoma, Sonoma Valley, Tiddle E. Winks, vintage five-and ten, Woolworth's

Even though it doesn't have the size or the inventory of the ultimate five-and-ten of my childhood (Woolworth's!), Sonoma's vintage 5 & dime, Tiddle E. Winks, carries on the tradition...
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Dec
17

El Verano, Sonoma County

Posted in Sonoma County & Beyond, Travel/Explore Tagged Agua Caliente, Boyes Springs, El Verano, El Verano Sonoma County, Sonoma, Sonoma County, Sonoma Resorts, Verdier's, Verdier's resort

Our little neighborhood called El Verano in Sonoma County was established in 1888 when a new train depot was built two miles west of the town of Sonoma. El Verano...
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Nov
19

Baked loaf of Apple Cider Streusel Bread from Flour and Co

Apple Cider Streusel Bread Recipe

Posted in Home & Garden, Sonoma County & Beyond Tagged apple, apple cider, apple cider crumb bread, apple cider streusel bread, Apple farm, apple juice, apple orchard, apple-a-day, apples, Emily Day, Farm Trails, Flour & Co, fuji apples, quick bread, Ratzlaff Ranch, Ratzlaff ranch apple-a-day, sebastopol, Sonoma County, sonoma county apple ranch, sonoma county apples

I recently connected with fellow blogger Emily Day of Flour & Co and she graciously agreed to let me share some of her recipes for her incredibly delicious baked goods....
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