Destination # 6 - California

CALIFORNIA! Oh where to begin? Home sweet home to the both of us. I've been avoiding writing this blog for two days because I couldn't figure out how to condense California into a blog entry of reasonable length as opposed to a long-winded gratuitous Novella about my Utopian childhood playing tennis and swimming in the sunshine 365 days a year, my ridiculously awesome friends and our crazy stunts, and the fact that Drake and I fell in love in about 100 different ways across a broad smattering of California cities from border to border. and how was that for a sentence, eh? Phew. Take a breath. See what I mean? This has the potential for disaster! So instead I've decided to say very little and I aim to accomplish this by leaving out most verbs, adjectives, conjunctions, adverbs , dangling modifiers and other grammatical stylings and trying to stick with mostly just nouns. So here go my thoughts, all summed up, on California... in no particular order.

sunshine family tennis scooters Chinese Food Swim & Racket Club
neighbors love Redwood trees Lombard Street soccer games 408 Joe Montana camping bike rides barefoot Berkley Colluseum
Golden Gate Bridge fruit Trees H2O polo Height Ashbury Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk convertibles summer Camp walnut trees snails Mom&Dad skateboarding cobblers Venice Beach tadpoles home.

We chose to make a Cobb Salad for our California meal because only true Californians are health-conscious and vain enough to eat salads and call it a meal but smart enough to figure out how to load them up with so much crap that you actually forget that you're eating a salad.

And so we present to you our own version of a California Cobb Salad

Ingredients:
A Combination of Romaine and Butter Lettuce
crumbled Bacon (yes; I capitalized Bacon on purpose because Bacon is kinda like God and if God gets to be capitalized then by God so does Bacon)
Blue Cheese
hard boiled egg sliced
Avocado
grilled chicken - sliced
green onions

For the dressing we made a honey mustard concoction

1/4 cup Mayo
1 T. Dijon mustard
1 T. honey
1/2 T. lemon juice

Whisk together. Toss. Serve and relish the fact that you just ate only a salad for dinner.
The dressing will be a bit thick but soooooooo tasty!

Bon Appetite and may the force always be with you, California!