Persian Noodle Soup (Ash Reshteh)
Gingerbread Cake with Rum Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Butternut Bisque with Crab
Pear and Almond Tart
Cooking with the Legendary Chef Faz
No, I’m not drowning in some self-afflicted pool of despair – that is not why I haven’t posted in eons. Quite the opposite, I am now the Executive Corporate… Read More »
Cooking Classes at Pie Ranch!
Are you interested in cooking organic just-picked produce and preparing local and sustainable meat & fish in a farm setting? NOW IS YOUR CHANCE! Come cook with me… Read More »
Rosé Poached Salmon, Lemony Parmesan Cream & Pommes Anna
I missed posting this for Easter – good thing Mother’s Day is right around the corner! How about rosé wine poached salmon infused with herbs and sauced with… Read More »
Chorizo & Feta Stuffed Calamari with Tuscan Bean Salad
Maybe it’s the abnormally hot weather in SF, but I’m craving food that is: tangy, spicy, salty, juicy and fresh– nothing manicured, or tweezed to perfection, or ridiculously… Read More »
Roasted Beet & Cara Cara Salad with Orange Blossom Vinaigrette
I’ve got to squeeze in the end-of-Winter-citrus recipes before Spring blankets us in sweet peas, strawberries, and rhubarb! There are many types of blood oranges, but only two… Read More »
Nopales & Delicata Squash Quiche
This post concludes my love affair with nopales. Yes, my little prickly friend, we are done! I have used you up and now we must part. And same… Read More »
Spoonbread! (It’s Gluten Free)
This gluten-free cornmeal soufflé is without a doubt the most satisfying creation I’ve feasted upon since giving up all wheat products. I baked one off as a test… Read More »
Roast Pork Loin with Prickly Pear Glaze
Any excuse to use my last name in a recipe – and ‘Glaze’ really is my last name! As mentioned in my last post on nopales I am… Read More »
Heirloom Carrot & Nopalitos Green Salad
I’m officially announcing my new favorite ingredient: nopales! I’m having tons o’ fun with edible beaver tail cactus and its fruit (prickly pear or ‘tuna’) since it grows… Read More »
Green Garlic & Nettle Vichyssoise
Green garlic & nettle are the heralds of Spring! Both are exceptionally mild so don’t let the ‘garlic’ part of the title scare you away. I know it… Read More »
Farm to Table Spring Crudités with Confit Onion Dip
Crudité platters need to be brought back from the 1980’s graveyard! They should burst with seasonal veggies of gorgeous color and shapely form. After all, the veg platter… Read More »
Prickly Pear Margaritas!
This just in: prickly pears are PRICKLY!!! Yes, they are aptly named. Can you believe it? Well I couldn’t. I was too good for gloves. Too good for tongs. Too good for a regular… Read More »
