Pig Roast Sides: Smoked Potato Salad
This salad will always remind me of howling coyotes on a full moon at Potrero Nuevo Farm. I prepared part of this dish the night before our pig… Read More »
Fluffy, Eggy, Creamy Potato Salad
Warning: this potato salad is addictive. It is really, really hard to stop eating. This is a Southern-style potato salad where Russet potatoes are boiled in their jackets, peeled while… Read More »
Spring Radish & Snap Pea Salad with Sumac Vinaigrette
Finally Spring is here! Yay for the verdant greens of baby lettuces, peas & asparagus and the popping pinks of radishes & strawberries! Here’s another easy salad for… Read More »
Cornmeal Crusted Fried Green Tomatoes with Homemade Ranch
Your’e right, November is an odd time to be posting about a summer fry basket, but I’m trying my best to get in all my Pig Roast Sides… Read More »
Pig Roast Sides: Sautéed Greens with Pine Nuts
You just need some simple greens at a pig roast amidst all the heavy dishes. (As if succotash, smoked potato salad, cowboy-up cattle beans, cheddar scallion cornbread, cornmeal… Read More »
Pig Roast Sides: Dragon Lingerie Succotash & Hot Bacon VInaigrette
Listen you weirdos, ‘Dragon Lingerie’ is a type of bean okay? It’s not lacy sleepwear for winged fire-breathing vixens…. I wanted a colorful chunky pig roast side that… Read More »
Pig Roast Sides: Cowboy Up Cattle Beans
There’s no such thing as a pig roast without a plethora of sides. Lucky for me when I cook at Tunitas Creek Kitchen on Potrero Nuevo Farm I… Read More »
How to Roast a Whole Hog On a Spit
I’ll tell you how to roast a pig on a spit – it’s easy – you call Cowboy Jeremiah at Leftcoast Grassfed and you see if he might… Read More »
Part I: Farm to Table Lunch, the Cooking Team
The Puente organization asks me to do a farm to table Thank You luncheon at Echo Valley Farm. How can I say anything but yes! to a nonprofit… Read More »
Fish & Shellfish
Fish Brandade de Morue Halibut with Fava Beans, Watermelon Radishes and Beurre Blanc Sauce Cioppino Sole Meunière Salmon Grilled on Cedar Plank Sweet Corn Mini Madeleines with Smoked… Read More »
From Dust to Drinky Places
Immigration was on the brain as I lay in bed nursing a concussion caused by sheer stupidity and lack of coordination. Between ears ringing and different states of… Read More »
Pays Basque
3 days, 3 gorgeous coastal cities, and 3 unique Basque cultures: Biarritz, Hendaye, San Sebastian… Forget Nice & Cannes and come to the original Cote d’Azur for surfing,… Read More »