Natasha Stewart ’s Tom Kha Gai Thai Cooking Party Palos Verdes

On Tuesday Feb 24, 2009, Natasha Stewart and Susan Siess held a Thai cooking party in Palos Verdes. There were 13 people from all over Palos Verdes. Natasha Stewart showed how to make Tom Kha Gai, a chicken soup with galangal and lemongrass in coconut milk.

At the party Natasha Stewart made Tom Kha Gai for health conscious people. The coconut soup was thin nough not to make people feel guilty eating it. Natasha Stewart added cabbage, carrot and mushroom into the soup, which normally the Thai people have only with chicken or sometimes with mushroom.

Natasha Stewart teaches only the Thai dishes whose ingredients are not too difficult to find in LA. The guests are often surprised at how delicious and easy to make the dishes are. Natasha Stewart invites her clients and friends living in around Palos Verdes to her cooking party every month.

Please contact Natasha Stewart for the next cooking party in Palos Verdes at Natasha@NatashaStewart.com.

For information about Natasha Stewart ‘s Thai kichen, please visit http://www.natashakitchen.com/.

For information about Palos Verdes homes, please visit http://www.natashastewart.com/w.natashastewart.com/.

Terranea Resort

Terranea Resort is located on Palos Verdes Drive South, Rancho Palos Verdes. It will be open in June 2009. The prices of the casitas and the villas at Terranea Resort range from $2 to $4 M. Due to the restriction placed by the California Coastal Commission, the owners can stay at their villas at Terranea Resort for only 90 days a year (60 days for casitas’ owners). The rest of the year, those villas and casitas at Terranea Resort must be available for the public to rent.

Terranea Resort has a 360-room hotel, 20 ocean front bungalows, 50 ocean view casitas and 32 villas, a 9-hole, par-3 golf course, 25,000-squarefoot oceanfront spa, fitness center and salon, restaurant, bar and 3 swimming pools.

For more information of Terranea Resort, please contact Natasha@NatashaStewart.com.

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Palos Verdes Real Estate Market in January 2009

The real estate market in Palos Verdes in January 2009 was doing better than in January 2008, with sales of 18 single family residences (2008: 14), 5 condos (2008: 4) and 2 townhomes (2008: 1). Average sold price was 5.93% lower than the average list price (2008: 4.35%) and average number of days that those homes were on the market before they got sold was 85 (2008: 50).

The bottom line is every house can be sold if it is priced right.

For more information on Palos Verdes real estate, please contact me at Natasha@NatashaStewart.com or visit my website at http://www.natashastewart.com/.

Palos Verdes Home - Bird of Paradise by Lloyd Wright

The Bird of Paradise House, one of Lloyd Wright’s architectural designs, located at 3456 Via Campesina in Palos Verdes, was recorded as sold last month, 5 months after the court approved the trust sale at $1,890,500 (original list price was 2,495,000). The house, also known as the Bowler House, was built in the 60’s and is called Bird of Paradise because of its steeply pitched roof & triangular geometric shaped structure. It has 4 bedrooms and 4 baths, 3904 sqft on 38,738 sqft lot.

Blue corrugated fiberglass along the roof intensifies the color of the sky and heightens the sense of shelter provided by the concrete and Santa Maria stone exterior. A limestone entryway opens to the expansive living room, with a spectacular two-story fireplace and signature Frank Lloyd Wright finishes. The house comes with incredible panoramic ocean and golf course view, in-ground pool and a separate guest quarters.

The previous owners bought it in 2000 at $ 1,525,000.

For information about Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., please click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Wright

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