Persian Noodle Soup (Ash Reshteh)
Gingerbread Cake with Rum Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Butternut Bisque with Crab
Pear and Almond Tart
Creamed Pearl Onions, Chanterelles, & Thyme
Creamed onions have been part of our Thanksgiving tradition for at least two generations and I can’t explain why because they don’t add much to the plate beyond… Read More »
Pumpkin Sage Buttermilk Biscuits
Piping hot pumpkin-sage biscuits smothered in butter and honey are addictive! I could eat these all day long. And I have been eating them all day long while… Read More »
Thanksgiving Turkey Tips
Turkey used to be a once a year treat for me. At Echo Valley Farm the team raised and processed their own and we’ve been enjoying Thanksgiving now… Read More »
A Parisian Thanksgiving
It’s November 27th, 2003. The fourth Thursday of the month. I’m living in Paris and will be for the next five years. And I am freaking out right… Read More »
Padron Pepper Appetizer
I love October in California, it’s the inbetween month. Summer’s bounty is still waving a final farewell with dry farmed tomatoes, sweet late season corn, and heirloom peppers… Read More »
Pork Sesame Broth from Homemade Pork Stock
This soup is only as good as the broth. (You know where I’m going with this don’t you?) Despite the somewhat rustic start to making this broth, the… Read More »
Carne Adobada: Out of Body
Adobada I think means ‘marinade’ in Spanish but I’m not exactly sure because my online translation tells me that ‘marinade’ is ‘escabeche’ which I know for a fact is more… 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 »
Fresh Pressed Apple Cider
Here’s the best recipe for apple cider. And this is a raw food. In other words, it is chock full of all the good stuff! No pasteurization. Apple… Read More »
Rhubarb & Celery Chutney
I get up in the morning, take a look at what’s growing on the farm, collect rhubarb and celery, dig up some horseradish and potatoes, carry my loot… Read More »
Wild Blackberry Pie
If this pie doesn’t solicit lustful advances and unrequited love from your partner, then dump the good-for-nothing. Eat the rest. And toss clothing with saddle out the front… Read More »
Pesto!
What to do with a whole lotta basil? And a whole lotta walnuts? Pesto! Pesto! Pesto! Pesto! P-E-S-T-O! Farmer’s Kate & Jeff at Echo Valley bring in bushels… Read More »
