GIVING BACK IS TASTY
Me teaching killer vinaigrette. Several months ago I received an email from a girlfriend telling me about a non-profit that was looking for volunteer chefs to teach six week classes on healthy cooking and nutrition, so naturally I jumped at the chance. It is not that I have [...]
IF SOPHIA LAUREN WAS A GRAIN.
She'd be Farro. I had never tasted Farro until a friend ordered a Farro Risotto at Bar Jules in San Francisco and little did I know that it would contain no rice. I took a bite of the creamy farro risotto and was instantly besotted. Sadly, it wasn't until almost [...]
EVERYTHING’S COMING UP PRETZEL!
For the last 15 years or so, I have been in perpetual mourning over the pretzels of my youth. It's not like I'm German or anything, but I recall pretzels as being shiny, firm and chewy with a little sprinkle of course salt, not sweet and buttery like today's mall-varietal. [...]
YAY! Sardines?
I have had sardines more than I would care to recall lately and not the canned-cooked-to-smithereens kind, but the, how-much-did-I-just-pay-for-that-fishy-experience-kind. Sardines have been a hot item this summer on hip restaurant menus, but I have found them to be really "fishy" and I don't consider myself any less of a [...]
GO GADGET GO! Part Deux
I am not a gadget pimp, but there are a few little items in my kitchen that make my life easier. This is part two in my series of "Go Gadget Go" posts. I may occasionally write about which gadgets got-to-go as-in, go in the trash, but for now I [...]
SAFFRON TAKES ON NEW LOVERS.
I, like so many of you, have a lovely little jar of Saffron in my pantry. Every time I open the cabinet, it looks at me and says, "Do yo know that I am one of the most expensive spices in the world?" Do you know that I am a [...]