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Pardon Us a Bit

  Hello, friends! You might notice some wonky things happenin’ on a few of our pages. Please pardon us while we (mostly superman Thomas) iron out the kinks. We’ll be back to regularly scheduled programming soon. Thanks! [K] & |b| Click here to go to our lastest post.

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Early Morning Curry

RGB curry in the herb garden. – RGB Wordless Wednesdays are intended to highlight our current RGB edibles. You can view all of our Wordless Wednesday edibles by clicking on the category of the same name.

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Lunch-Hour Leftovers

We seem to be on a Vietnamese kick lately. After only eating two pieces of our grilled lemongrass ginger chicken from earlier in the week, we tucked the remaining four pieces away in the fridge for a second meal. Enter: a French-Vietnamese Baguette. Usually made with a combination of rice and wheat flour, it’s light, [...]

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World Cup Brunch | Goat Cheese and Chive Scramble with Blueberry Peach Salad

When it’s 11 AM on a Sunday and your loved one is 1) wearing yesterday’s shorts, 2) hasn’t budged from the couch and 3) declares today is “World Cup Day,” you make nice and fix him breakfast. There was one minor issue: I was craving my runny morning egg, and Mr. RGBistro doesn’t do runny [...]

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Grilled Lemongrass Ginger Chicken | Happy Accident

I’m calling this a happy accident. I screwed up breaking down my whole chicken so my drumstick kind of fell away from the bone. I still have no clue what happened… but I thought it might be a good idea to slide the meat down, clump it into a ball at the end, and marinate [...]

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Misty Morning Cob

RGB yellow corn near the main vegetable garden. – RGB Wordless Wednesdays are intended to highlight our current RGB edibles. You can view all of our Wordless Wednesday edibles by clicking on the category of the same name.

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Church & State Bistro: Moules Marinière

Romance in Los Angeles? To paint the picture: It’s early Wednesday evening. We’re in downtown Los Angeles, and we need to eventually get home. Instead of sitting in two hours + of stop-and-go rush-hour traffic on the I-5 freeway, we opt to wait it out by having a nice dinner in the Industrial District of [...]

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Barefoot Contessa: Blueberry Streusel Muffins

Blueberry Streusel Muffins   Dear Migraine, you’re on your fourth day. Would you please go away and leave me alone? Ugh. So last night, while Mr. RGBistro caught Mystic River on Netflix, (good flick), I caught up on a few books I had checked out from the Tustin Public Library. When we called it a [...]

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Summertime Sage

RGB purple sage, amongst the RGB thyme blossoms. – RGB Wordless Wednesdays are intended to highlight our current RGB edibles. You can view all of our Wordless Wednesday edibles by clicking on the category of the same name.

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Happy Summer, Y’all!

RGB Caprese Salad   Can you believe it’s already summer?!?! Yikes!!!! While most of you may be looking forward to the warm days and sunny skies, we’ve been dreading this moment. Absolutely dreading it… Because, my dear friends, we live in Southern California. Without. Air conditioning. To reiterate, we live… in Southern California… without… air [...]

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Perhaps the World’s Best Unorthodox Game-Day Dinner

Some days, I rock. Today is one of those days. It is one of those days because I successfully fueled a raging sports fan with a Game-Day Dinner revolving around spring onions. You heard me; spring onions. Not exactly what comes to mind when your intention is to serve “bar food” for a basketball game. [...]

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Late Spring Thyme Blossoms

Somewhere out back, we’ve got puffs and pillows of lavender thyme blossoms. And they smell wonderful. – RGB Wordless Wednesdays are intended to highlight our current RGB edibles. You can view all of our Wordless Wednesday edibles by clicking on the category of the same name.

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Grilled Chicken, Spinach and Blueberry Salad | Quick Weekend Getaway

   Sometimes, a girl just needs a weekend Holiday. Not because the house is a disaster, the spouse has gone missing, or the dog has gone batty. Just because.  So this past weekend, a girlfriend and I holed up at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, CA. It was everything we wanted it to be: [...]

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Dutch Babies | A Saturday Morning at the RGB

  What cereal was introduced in 1963? (Answer below in Mr. RGBistro’s crossword puzzle.) I really hope your Saturday morning routine is a little like ours; sleeping in, snuggling with the dog and steaming lattes… Breakfast also comes with a garden view, a crossword puzzle and morning fetch with Britta the weimaraner.  – Our garden [...]

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Arugula and Strawberry Salad with Spiced Walnuts, Goat Cheese and Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing | Foraging in the Backyard

In France, people hunt for truffles. Up north, they’re lookin’ for morels. At the RGB, we’re scoutin’ for arugula. Arugula? Arugula.   Last spring, while weeding in the backyard, Mr. RGBistro sniffed the air and declared that he had smelled arugula. Turns out – we have wild arugula growing between the rocks in the lower [...]

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Meyer Lemon Strawberry Muffins | My Baking Addiction

      Strawberries are most beautiful when they’re plucked straight out of the ground… but since they have a shelf life of about six and a half minutes, what would you do with them once they became a little “old” or “bruised?”  Someday, we’re gonna to get around to opening The Bistro, and when [...]

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Burrata Chive Omelet and Thyme Potatoes | Second Chance Burrata

  The RGBistro has a dilemma. What would you do if one of your recipes was so simple, it’d be silly to write it up? We’re big fans of burrata cheese. If you’ve never had burrata… or never heard of burrata, go here and see my neighbor’s really great description of what this ooey-gooey cheese [...]

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Strawberry Lemonade | Smith Bites

      For the record, we’re uber flattered by the #FF mentions on Twitter, but we’re not always at good at reciprocating the love. That’s because I leave for the office at 6:45 AM on Friday mornings and don’t come home ‘till date nite’s over. (Yes, Mr. RGBistro and I still go to date [...]

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Caldo de Carne Seca| Tweakin’ the CIA’s Recipe… Because it Made Sense

Two things happened this week: the cilantro went into bloom and the carrot tops grew taller than the yardstick.   Keeping that in mind, and not feelin’ like watching yet another Lakers playoff game with Mr. RGBistro, I went to my stack of checked-out library books for some inspiration. About 2 minutes into my search, I [...]

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Gone Nuts

June Gloom came a little early this year: Raindrops on the rose leaves…    the sage…      …and the rose petals.   We recently had the pleasure of serving lunch to about 30 friends at the tail end of a long weekend in the Sonoma Wine Country. The venue: Chateau Felice, 10603 Chalk Hill [...]

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Painkiller to the Rescue

Today’s RGB garden photo: chive blossoms! I think it could pass for one of the plants from The Lorax (Dr. Seuss). The question now is, “what are we gonna do with all these chives???”         And sadly, I’m on day three; THREE!!! of a nasty migraine. Lucky for me, I recently spent [...]

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Flowers for Mom

In honor of Mother’s Day, we’re snapping photos of flowers from around the RGBistro. At last count, there were 79 rose bushes planted… but there might be a few less this year, thanks to the local gopher population. To all the nurturing mammas out there who make the rest of us who we are today [...]

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While We Were Away

Our apologies. We’ve been gone for much too long. But despite the inability to plug in, our little holiday to the Caribbean (islands of Tortola and Jost Van Dyke) was a great way to pass the month of April. So dear readers (all six of you), please enjoy some travel photos while we get back [...]

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Need Sun, Will Travel

OK, what happened to all that beautiful sunshine we had just a week ago?! ????    David Austin roses over the garage. They’re so far up, I can’t reach them to cut any down.     These tissue-paper beauties are gorgeous. If only I could reach one… it’d be lovely on the nightstand.   It’s [...]

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Chilean Sea Bass and Wild Scallops with Shiitake Risotto and Fresh Asparagus | Scott’s Seafood, At Home

   Poll: How many of you eat better at home than you do at a restaurant? Around here, and with rare exception, Friday night is always date nite. Recently,  we had tickets to see the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, so we had dinner at the nearby Scott’s [...]

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Tequila Lime Chicken and Garden Salad with Cilantro and Lime Dressing | A Moment of Genius

Today’s RGB garden photo: A Dutch Iris, popping up near the mandarin tree. A moment of genius happened at the RGB on Friday. I had been spending much of the week hibernating in the kitchen as a result of a one-time project. So when noon rolled around and I realized that Mr. RGBistro had just [...]

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Celery Root Puree | A Celery Fanfare

We. Heart. Spring. And the new ranunculus garden. !!!!! Here’s a few Springtime at the RGB photos: Little fern leaves… uncurling their way into April.   Anyone have any idea what this is? It’s lived here longer than we have; we have no clue what it is, but it’s beautiful!   Diana Princess of Wales [...]

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Almost Springtime at the RGB

The Equinox isn’t until Saturday, but with the time change and the warm weather, we’re already sportin’ our shorts and flip-flops. Even the dog is getting her zoomies on. Britta the weimaraner getting some mid-afternoon fetch-time in.   With the warmer weather, the tarragon and chives are officially back on the block! And here I [...]

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A Birthday Garden for Barry

Uh oh. I let more than a week go by without updating the blog? For shame! My excuse is we’ve been busy. On my way home from a business meeting on Friday morning, I stopped by the Lowe’s in Irvine to see if they had any ranunculus. (Earlier in the week, we bought a few [...]

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Stuck Between Autumn and Spring

We must have pissed off the rain Gods: Saturday morning rain – outside the kitchen window…       …and outside the front door.   It was bad enough to cancel my long-planned bicycle ride down the Santa Ana River Trail, but not bad enough to detour through the Saturday Farmers’ Market in Irvine. My [...]

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