food

Eating Well in Sacramento…

05.03.2011

So who says there’s little interest in a food scene in Sacramento?! We’ve gone past the stage of Little-Engine-That-Could; we’re now out the gate and started down the track (to mix my metaphors). I couldn’t be happier.

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Happy Easter, Merry Passover & Baby Leek Risotto

04.21.2011

The eau de “this shirt doesn’t need to be washed yet since I’ve only worn it for a week, maybe two.” Well, the whole Apple store smells that way.

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Food Blogging and MidLifeBloggers

04.14.2011

These days, the two things that will always perk me up are writing and cooking.

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Warm Early Spring Salad

04.07.2011

I served them to my neighbor Deb, who not only named the dish, but had this to say: “The juxtaposition of the greens and the dates set off the flavors perfectly. The pine nuts added another note and texture to the dish.”

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Farm Fresh to Me

03.30.2011

As part of the experiment, I’m going to challenge myself to cook new-to-me (or created-by-me) recipes to use the produce.

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For Sale: Valentine S’mores

01.31.2011

Wrap each one in pretty red cellophane and tie with a bow. Take them down the road and up to the High Street–”Please, miss, won’t you buy my Valentine S’mores?”

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The Weekly Rant: Raley’s, BelAir, and NobHill markets

08.23.2010

Strip away all the hoohah, the pink and the blue, the booties and the pacifiers, and what you’ve got is a world in which women are valued for what their ovaries do and their wombs produce.

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Creative in the Kitchen? Win a trip to NYC!

12.03.2009

Julia Child doesn’t give a recipe for Puff Pastry in her almost-encyclopedic Mastering the Art of French Cooking.  Or rather, the recipe she gives is for the simple little piped (or flung from a spoon) blobs of dough that we know as cream puffs.  To get the Real Puff Pastry, the kind you roll out [...]

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Jane’s World-Famous Award-winning Best-Ever Pecan Pie

11.20.2009

Okay, gather ’round while I give you The Secret…

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MidLife? There Are Some Things We Do Like Hotter

10.26.2008

by Mark of Going Like Sixty Somebody and/or something is changing.  My wife, Nancy, left Thursday on a knitting/fiber jaunt.  She’ll return soon, but in the meantime, she made up a crockpot full of chili for me to eat.   Otherwise she knows it will be Miller Chill and M & M’s.  We had a [...]

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