Due to some recent unpleasantness in my personal life I haven't been cooking much lately. In fact, this week-end is the first time I've cooked in a month! Crazy, I know. This morning I happened to be cleaning my room and I had the TV on...
Hi all. Recently I went out with a girlfriend to one of my favorite Italian restaurants. I had a pasta that was so simple and so delicious I had to try and make it at home. It was just fresh tagliatelle with a mushroom sauce....
I have had a number of emails from people asking me for the recipe for the roast chicken that led to the chicken n dumplings. I first want to say that I have been roasting chickens for 20 years now and this is hands down the...
I am always trying to incorporate more veggies and fruit into my diet. I love good food and I love slow cooked homemade meals but it's not always easy or timely to clean, chop and slow cook veggies throughout the day. I do munch on...
It's fall y'all. Well maybe not for my Florida friends but here in Northern Cal it's most definitely arrived. It was so chilly the other night I was ready for a fire. I like comfort food in the fall. Something about pastas and sauces and roasting...
I am really lucky to have good friends who live on a beautiful farm in Sonoma. They grow all kinds of vegetables and flowers on their property. Recently, my friend dropped by my house and brought with him a big beautiful bag of home grown...
Every summer I spend a few weeks in the mountains of North Carolina in a little town called Highlands. My family has been going there for 20 years to escape the heat of the Florida summer and I usually fly in from California for a...
So my friends Serge & Stef are coming in from Russia tonight. I am so excited to see them. We used to get together all the time and cook and hang out and then they moved from Oakland to Russia! Not just a hop, skip...
When I first moved to the San Francisco area about 12 years ago, I encountered many new foods for the first time. Swiss chard was one of those foods. Having grown up in the south, I was very familiar with greens and the southern ways...
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