Watch the site below for information about the 2026 Monterey County Fair:
For information and tickets for the Monterey County Fair being held from 8-28-2025 to 9-1-2025 at the Monterey Fairgrounds click below:
Monterey County Fair Tickets and Information
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For a link to the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California click below for their website information on current exhibits and portfolio evaluation services:
Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California
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The sea otter tourism specialist in Monterey County California is Elkhorn Slough Safari located in Moss Landing off Highway 1 between Santa Cruz and Monterey. Click below for a link to their website:
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Calvados Mushroom Sauce Recipe Created by Ruth Paget
Note:
This is my go-to sauce when I lived in Paris, France in the early 1990s was a buttery, mushroom sauce that I made with Calvados, France’s famous apple brandy with the best ones coming from the Pays d’Auge, the A.O.C. region in Normandy.
This sauce is loosely based on the mushroom sauce for sole Dieppoise.. The ingredients for this sauce were sold by fishmongers in fall at the weekly covered market in the Centre Charras in Courbevoie, a Parisian suburb just across the bridge over the Seine by the La Défense skyscrapers.
I used this simple sauce on sautéed white fish, sautéed chicken breasts, fried pork chops, pasta, and mashed potatoes.
For 4 People
Ingredients:
-4 tablespoons butter with sea salt
-2 cups sliced mushrooms
-1 or 2 shots of Calvados
-1 cup heavy cream
-2 tablespoons chopped parsley
Steps:
1-Melt butter in a sauté pan. Add mushrooms to the pan and stir over medium-high heat until they render water (about 10 – 15 minutes).
2-Continue stirring until the water in the pan evaporates.
3-Add Calvados to the mushrooms and stir 4 to 5 minutes to burn off the alcohol, but leave the flavor.
4-Add cream to the mushroom mixture and stir till steam rises from the mushrooms. Serve as soon as possible over cooked fish, pork chops, chicken, pasta, or mashed potatoes with parsley sprinkled on top.
Note:
This recipe can be made with Sicilian Marsala as in chicken Marsala.
Other fortified wines like Marsala can be used including:
Muscat de Rivesaltes - France
Muscat de Samothrace - Greece
Oloroso sherry - Spain
Sweet porto - Portugal
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Medieval and Renaissance Studies journals from the University of Chicago Press. Click below for link:
Medieval and Renaissance Journals from the University of Chicago Press
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Fioli Gardens outside San Francisco has hiking and children’s activities. Click below for link to their website and ticket information:
Fioli Gardens Website and Ticket Information
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