A Delicious Fourth of July!

I wasn't looking forward to a holiday in the middle of the week but it turns out it worked perfectly!  Any day is a holiday when Ryan is home so it was a great day.  Just the two of us for a run through midtown/downtown Oakland, an A's game (they won!), barbecue at home, and season 5 of Mad Men-- heaven!

Two great food finds for the fourth:

What a heavenly galette!

1) Awaken Cafe @ Broadway and 15th in Oakland.  I drive by this place often and have been wanting to go in but somehow hadn't made it in yet.  Good coffee and delicious pastries!  See the pic of my apricot, nectarine galette.  Yum!

Grilled sweet potato salad!
So good the only pic I got was mid-consumption.

2) Grilled Sweet Potato Salad! I was listening to Fresh Air earlier this week and Terry Gross was interviewing Jack Bishop and Bridget Lancaster from America's Test Kitchen.  Their recommendations for veggies for grilling were sweet potatoes and red onions and after I heard that I could not get the idea of grilled sweet potatoes off my mind.  I modified a Bobby Flay Food Network recipe for Grilled Sweet Potato and Scallion Salad.  I just switched out the scallions for grilled red onions and it was a home run!  I cannot recommend this recipes enough!