Gari from Ghana

Dedi's on holiday visiting her parents, it's been raining all week, the days are already too short, and with the daylight savings time in full swing, it's dark and cold too early. . All the more reason to try and brighten things up with some new cuisine!

I pulled out a sack of Gari flour I had picked up at an Asian market a few months ago, downloaded a recipe from Wikipedia and went to work. Gari (also spelled Garri) is made from the cassava root (yucca family). I topped it off with a hot mushroom soup.

Timing was perfect; dinner was served just as a wet Brenna came trudging in. When the girls gave me their 3rd round of 'this is sooooo good' I decided this brings this event up to a bloggable category. So here you are!

;-) Chef Dave

Flying home

Been out a few days in the bay area again. Still holding my own against the constant jet lag but it's getting tough!

Did get a great ride up Mount Hamilton with two of my colleagues on Sunday that gave me a chance to try out the bike fitting I had done at Concept Cyclery, my my ex-colleague's new bike shop. Seem to have made a big difference but hard to tell for sure. But what counts is that it was a very enjoyable fun ride that took off some of the stress associated with too much travel!

Here are some shots!

Nice fall day

Sweet weather today and it looks like it will continue thru Wednesday. Yesterday I rode to Rolle and back, riding through the beautfiul Le Rosey campus where Brenna spent the day in an art portfolio class... Rode down with a french guy I ran into who just moved to Gex, near Divonne. He was very appreciative of my knowledge of the back roads!

Today Dedi and I did a short loop on our bikes. The air is cool but not cold and the tree leaves are brilliant shades of red and yellow. Lots of families out harvesting their grapes, most by hand, some with machines...And even better, our apple tree is in full production. I've never had such good apples. The flavor explodes in your mouth...sweet, crisp, fresh! And certified 'organic'..just have to watch out for the happy worms!

We also saw many people out today rustling through bushes, presumably gathering nuts. I'll have to see what this is!