So I was eating up a magazine and I saw a recipe for Braised Leeks. I luuuuuuuv leeks – oniony, but mild, with a touch of savory sweetness. And they’re so pretty! Dark green tops fading down into light green and then white. So I made it, and then I was like, “WAIT! This is just begging for …
Visiting Cuba is on my “bucket list.” The sooner we can get there the better as it seems that time may catch up with them after all. Give me a plate dressed with black beans and sweet plantains any day. But not to long ago I used to work in a Cuban restaurant in the …
Around here in NorCal, spring tends to come very fast. The first shoots out of the ground, the first lacy blossoms on the trees. Spring! It’s here! It’s here! There’s something so good about the newness of it all. So I wanted to make meatballs and went to Whole Foods and ground pork and kale were on …
This dish is dedicated to all my Portuguese friends here in SF Bay Area, or to be exact about 80% are from the Azores. You can certainly elevate a party when you introduce Vinho Verde. Vinho Verde is not a grape varietal, but rather a protected designation of origin (DOC) or denominação de origem controlada of northwest …
That’s my daughter Ana favorite dish, I have to make it two time a week….. It’s a straightforward recipe with relatively simple preparation and nice plating. The ingredient that ties it all together is the Boursin cheese. If you like garlic, you’ll probably like Boursin. I remember seeing flank steaks rolled up (roulade-style) with an …
Chimichurri. It’s one of those fun words to say. Chimichurri. But I’m sick off those different kind of chimichurri you can have in fantastique restaurant in the Bay Area… Garlic, flat-leaf parsley, red pepper flakes, dried oregano. Beauty is simplicity. I’m really enjoying these fresh and simple recipes of late and not just because they don’t …
Let me tell you those go so fast. Most friends will tell you they had to cut themselves off at Fifteen. We estimated my daughter ate about 10…. However, because it adds only about 90 seconds to the whole shebang, I do like brushing the bacon with a mixture of cider vinegar, maple syrup or …
Yesterday I got a 5-pound bags of New York apples at bargain-basement prices, so now I have to make my favorite dessert: Tarte Tatin My maman Tarte Tatin recipe with a all-butter pate brisée. And, more importantly, you have to use salted butter in both the apples and the pastry. When my wife tried my …
In general, I’m a classicist about sangria. Like most of us, I’ve endured all sorts of disturbing ingredients masquerading as sangria — Sprite, frozen lemonade, coconut rum, basil, a ton of sugar (whhhy) which are all ingredients I’ve pulled from just the first few Google results for sangria — and try not to mess with what’s …
First, look at my sexy asparagus I got from the Farmers Market yesterday…. My my personal philosophy in life : throw an egg on it. Yesterday, with an attempt at a lighter approach to hash — yes, like hash browns or corned beef hash, but with crunchy NorCal asparagus — we didn’t even need the hunk …
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