Persian Noodle Soup (Ash Reshteh)
Gingerbread Cake with Rum Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Butternut Bisque with Crab
Pear and Almond Tart
Coq Au Vin: Bistro Dinner for 8
While I was home in San Francisco – on vacation – my mother put me to work. “You wouldn’t mind cooking for just a few friends?” Three large… Read More »
Leaving Las Vegas
Not all adventures end up the way you want them to. I guess we couldn’t call them adventures if they did. I left the Guy Savoy, Las Vegas… Read More »
Performance On A Plate
I recently read a disheartening article on the steady decline of prominent female restaurant chefs in the Bay Area. This came as a shock because I started cooking… Read More »
Top Chef Audition Video
The audition video is at the end of the post, but you’ve got to read the post first! Just like I promised, I sent my video, resumé, and… Read More »
Guy Savoy: Le Dernier Diner, The Last Supper
I was an emotional shipwreck the whole last day of my job cooking at a 3-star restaurant… I arrived at 8AM in the morning and began my daily… Read More »
Au Revoir?
My work visa hasn’t come through and so my job is over at the end of this month. I’m bummed. On one hand, I physically need time off… Read More »
Sea Bass with Wild Mushrooms
My poor husband never gets to eat my food because I spend 14 hours a day cooking in a Parisian 3-star restaurant. I’m sure he wonders if I… Read More »
Guy Savoy: In The Moon Dans La Lune
French Expression: Dans La Lune. In the moon. To be “out of it” or unfocused. When your head is not in the game. I wanted to come back… Read More »
7 Months In Review: Fire Seekers
It is much easier to contemplate progress from a distance. In this case a distance of 10,000 miles. Now that I am safe at home in San Francisco… Read More »
Holiday Menu
One day left until I leave Paris and get on a plane to San Francisco. Yipppeeeee!!!! Cooking in the 3-star restaurant I work at is unbearable right now…. Read More »
Guy Savoy: The Sound of Silence
From the moment I get to the restaurant at 7Am to the moment I leave at 11PM there is noise. The endless clanging of huge copper pots and… Read More »
Parce que C’est Toi!
There are many French expressions that I adore, but my all time favorite is “Parce que c’est toi”. Which literally translated means: “Because it’s you”. It’s a French… Read More »
