I made sure to have some tasty-enough wine with me at the beach (Bota Box travel packs Chardonnay, no glass allowed on Beach!) as I started my Summer 2011 Beach Read "My Life in France" by Julia Child. I knew it would be important to have something pleasant to sip as I envied her her bottles of classic French wine over dinners in Paris and thereabouts in the late 1940s. This book is the perfect, lighthearted summer read. I haven't really put it down since I started it on Sunday.
Things I must remember to use more often when cooking: butter (diplomatically, though--not in everything but a little more often at the right time, because it is delicious!), champignons because I love them and I hardly ever buy them for some reason, and wine to cook with. It makes things taste yummier.