My goal for the Summer was to stop eating at drive-thru restaurants! So now I cook a meal for Olivia and myself and we sit down at the table. It is so cute watching her little manners. She loves to use real cloth napkins and I can barely handle the…
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Abalone Cooking Lesson At Aubergine In Carmel, Ca Once a month I take a fun cooking lesson in Carmel at Aubergine. This month was totally out of my comfort zone with Abalone. I have never had it or cooked it or seen it before! Weird having grown up in Monterey…
Sponsored by Prolon For the last six months, I’ve done the Prolon Fast Mimicking Program 1 week a month. I love how it helps me figure out portion control and what I’m eating on the weeks I’m not on it. I wrote a whole review on it here. ProLon® is…
Olivia and I started our fall garden and so many yummy things are starting to pop up. First of all we really rock it at the squash. It is the only thing I don’t kill regularly. This season we did a bunch of herbs in the window and the sage…
For over a decade I eat, sleep and drink all things Bravo so when I heard Chef Adrain Martin planned to drive through California I had to book him right away! I loved the Below Deck season 6 in Thailand. It was the last GREAT season… the show runs a…
The Prolon Diet is a fast-mimicking diet created at USC by Valter Longo, Ph.D. For five days you eat and drink on a stick diet of macro and micronutrients packed into bars, soups, and snacks. The case arrives and inside are 5 individual boxes–1 for each day you’re on the fast. I was intimidated, to say the least, but after following Kate Walk SF’s journey with the Prolon Fast Mimicking Diet and all my favorite Goop editors, I decided to give it a try.
Olivia and I started a garden this year. I struggled with activities for her to do outside that would engage us both. I can only push the swing and race around the yard so much. So we grabbed some seeds at the local market and gave it a try. We…
I started Haute Beauty Guide in 2008 as a way to stay in touch with my skincare clients between appointments. At first, I only covered skincare but HBG grew with me as my life evolved— from traveling around the world, heading back to college after taking a long break, buying our first home, to getting my first gray hair! Monterey is my home and I take the lifestyle here to heart.
