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The menu that we created for this dinner is as follows:
First taste: Locally crafted ginger ale
Crostini with Sunshine’s goat cheese and Gillet pear chutney
Salad: Lundburg brown basmati, almonds and dried blackberries with arugula, black mission figs and miner’s plums

Soup: Roasted Red Pepper soup with Tomatillo foam
Entree: Seitan Tenderloin [...]

Right now, hiding on almost every block, under every overgrown jumble of trees….a plum tree is breaking with the weight of its own fruit! Treat yourself to the joy and delight of finding your own backyard fruit source and glean what you can for an Indian summer treat!
This is local food at its best.
So far [...]

I came across this article in my morning browse of NYTimes most popular articles. I thought I would share it here
I was especially excited to see shared meal preparation mentioned in this article.
“With hot stoves, boiling water and sharp knives at hand, it is understandable that parents don’t want children in the kitchen when they’re [...]

I thought I would share this dessert recipe that I recently found on a great website http://www.mapi.com/
I have made it a few times, once with ghee and once with butter. Both are divine, but the one with the ghee is especially divine!
Ginger Pear Crisp
Comfort food [...]

This Saturday I am very excited to be cooking for the annual Mountain Bounty farm harvest party. I basically get to choose from the “bounty” of the season and create a menu that comes directly from the farm. Last year I went with a more Italian inspired menu. Lots of fresh tomatoes in pasta on [...]

Hi All,
A group of us fun loving foodies in Nevada County have been working to get a chapter of Slow Food (slowfoodusa.org) started here locally. I was a member of the San Francisco chapter a few years back and had the pleasure of attending lots of fun food and agriculture focused events.
Slow Food is a [...]

On Friday the 5th I am making my way into the heart of San Francisco for a very special dinner. My friend Christine Shields is having an art reception for some of her new work currently showing at Triple Base Gallery in the Mission http://basebasebase.com/.
I am planning a very exciting meal just for her. Taking [...]

Today I had the honor of presenting a cooking lesson to the Kindergarten classroom at Grass Valley Charter School. For such wee ones with short attention spans, I wanted to present a simple, colorful, healthy and most importantly, tasty recipe with lots of participation. We made Autumn Harvest Soup. The recipe  we made was from [...]