Food does not have to be complicated to be delicious. Often simple is best, add to it a little bit of sunshine and some good company and really you can't go wrong. On Wednesday I went to vist Heather and Ed in their new abode and was treated to some warm weather, cold coronas with lime and Ed's famous tacos. 
I must admit that I was a little afraid because the last time Ed made tacos I ate so many I felt sick. They are really that good. Normally when I eat tacos I get full off of two, although I usually order three, but when Ed made tacos I had 11. I am not kidding. In my defense it was over a period of several hours (ok maybe 2) and none of us could stop. Afterwards we went on a two and a half hour trek that lead us through golf field, under thicket and over wooden fence. We came back in pitch darkness having completely missing the sunset, which we had originally set out to see, all thanks to my dad's famous sense of adventure and love of unusual 'shortcuts' (those who have been in a car with him will know what I mean). We left the house with bellies so full they looked like little barrels, and came back after the lengthy exercise still so stuffed we couldn't even so much as look at food. It was agreed that none of us had ever been that full in our lives and we all felt a little sick, but it was well worth it.
Understandably, when Ed said he was making tacos this time I was both nervous and happy. I felt butterflies in my stomach like I was going on a date with someone I had a crush on but hadn't seen in a long time and wasn't sure if I'd be able to behave properly, but I'm proud to say that they were as delicious as I remember and that I limited myself to 3 and stuck to it.
It was a promising start to a delicious week. Thursday was my dad's birthday and I had the perfect excuse to wallow in a little more indulgence. We drove to Drake's Bay Oyster Farm in Invenrness and bought 40 oysters for 3 people, just the right amount in my opinion. The birthday boy did the shucking as the rest of us would have been painfully slow at it, and we had a picnic consisting of oysters, cheeseboard baguette with butter, gruyere, salmon caviar, pate brought directly from France (thanks again to Heather and Ed), and teasingly sweet strawberries accompanied by a bottle of Roeder champagne.
As if that wasn't enough we ate, took a little break on the drive home then went 
directly to dinner at Bui, an amazing Vietnamese restaurant on Solano Ave. where I had the best lamb I've ever tried, among all the other delicious dishes.
directly to dinner at Bui, an amazing Vietnamese restaurant on Solano Ave. where I had the best lamb I've ever tried, among all the other delicious dishes.The week was topped off by a gourmet, multi-course meal at Margaret and Charlie's. We started out with potato samosas and homemade limoncello followed by a cauliflower, broccoli and cheddar soup, halibut and grilled shrimp with mango salsa, basil chicken and rice and mini hamburgers. Dessert was vanilla flan, chocolate cake and strawberries and we were treated to some amazing tequila (7 horses?) and rare whiskey.
All in all it was another delicious if not entirely nutritionally balanced week in this tempting place called the Bay Area, where it is just too easy to eat well and forget all about dieting!
