Back from the annual Stinson Beach getaway and am i pooped and overfed! Sorry, not as many pics as usual! 
Blame the bubbles. 
We started out Friday afternoon with apps (most of the food Friday night was mine): Mutabel (kinda like baba ganoush) and Borani (yogurt spinach dip) with pita, a cherry tomato and feta cheese melt for bread dipping, truffled potato chips, my usual cheese/heavy cream dip, this time made with Saint Agur (OMFG), olives, including these tangerine marinated ones i found which were oddly very good, garlic peanuts, smoked trout dip, and the best of all - Spanish anchovies marinated in garlicky olive oil, with rosemary fried in that same oil, and pepperoncini. I had it at a recent dinner party and found the recipe online. Super good! For dinner, we had chicken I’d marinated in chimichurri overnight, and more for drizzling over. I’d feared I’d made the chimichurri too salty but it turned out just fine and the chicken disappeared (so fast I forgot pics!). Someone else brought marinated flank steak and that was devoured as well. Corn on the cob too! Also, a Portuguese tuna, potato, egg and chickpea salad I made. Another friend brought her homemade peach and blueberry pie, which we had with vanilla bean ice cream. Lots of vermouth, negronis, and bubbles were quaffed.
Saturday breakfast was mostly fruit, bread, Frenchy butter with big salt crystals, raspberry jam, etc. Then we went on our annual Marshall Store outing - we had oysters raw, Rockefeller, Kilpatrick, BBQ, and with chorizo. We split halibut and pulled pork sandwiches, and ceviche tostadas and clam chowder. Much bubbly with.
got home and waited a decent hour or so before the apps came out - cheese, charcuterie, guac and chips, some extra special Iberian chorizo from Bilbao (friend brought it back from their trip), a Persian platter I made called Sabzi Khordan - various fresh herbs served alongside pita, feta, walnuts and a garlicky yogurt dip, more fruit, and marinated mushrooms.
Dinner last night was a grilled marinated tri-tip and broiled salmon, more of my tuna potato salad, a lentil salad a friend made, a green salad, roasted red peppers, and for dessert, another friend’s blueberry cheesecake. We had a tasting of some red wines from Oregon too (friend drove down for the weekend).
Bfast this a.m. was scrambled eggs, grilled bread for pan con tomate, bacon, a friend’s homemade cinnamon buns with coffee icing, more fruit, and leftover cheesecake. I swore I’d never eat again, but I managed a couple of slices of bacon and a bunch of cherries.
Another perfect weekend away with my besties. I overindulged, as I’ve been eating so differently lately but it was a birthdays weekend, so WTF - I HAD BUTTER! Totally worth it, and I just won’t be getting on the scale anytime soon! because when I got home i immediately took the BF out for beers/bloodies and a crossword. I missed him!
Dinner tonight was a little of my leftover tuna potato salad and a couple slices of pan con tomate.
wasn’t needed at all, although I almost poured a teaspoonful of sugar in my mouth at some point to alleviate the napalm smothering my tastebuds. Strangely, sticking my tongue out to cool it off had little to no effect 
