Persian Noodle Soup (Ash Reshteh)
Gingerbread Cake with Rum Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Butternut Bisque with Crab
Pear and Almond Tart
Truffled Blue Hubbard Squash Soup
Blue Hubbard squash has orange colored sweet flesh. It will feed a family of eight or more, can be tossed around by children without fear of damage, may… Read More »
Wild Mushroom & Kale Ravioli with Caraway Parmesan Cream Sauce
Wild mushrooms are still going strong and we have a secret forage place for chanterelles at Echo Valley Farm. I’m not allowed to say where exactly for obvious… Read More »
Crispy Sweetbreads, Pomelo, Citrus Veal Jus
“Do your yoga friends know you eat brains and thymus glands and crazy stuff like that?” He asks popping a crispy morsel in his mouth after expertly swiping… Read More »
Persian Saffron Orange Cake
My dusty pastry skills were recently tested when a Persian friend asked if I would recreate his Grandmother’s orange cake perfumed with cardamom and saffron. Then he gave… Read More »
Wild Mussels! How to Clean & Debeard
Jeeps McGee, my trusty vehicle, starts up with a gutsy roar. The performance exhaust shakes me with thunderous throaty vibrations. My coffee cup perched precariously on the dash… Read More »
Citizen Cake Clam Chowder
It seems that I am the last to find out that both Orson and Citizen Cake will be closing their doors in SF. As the Chef de Cuisine… Read More »
Kale and Fuyu Persimmon Salad, Blue Cheese Beignets
The secret ingredient in this kale & fuyu persimmon salad is hidden in the vinaigrette: the bizarre and fascinating citron known as Buddha’s Hand. The fleshless fruit imparts… Read More »
Pink Pearl Apple Stuffing with Burdock, Savory, & Sage
Yes Pink Pearl apples are really pink! No ‘burdock’ is not a character from an Agatha Christie mystery but a root tasting of thistle. Yes ‘savory’ refers to the aromatic herb that… Read More »
Roasted Red Kuri, Pancetta, & Honey
Red Kuri or Potimarron in French, is a tasty baking squash. They look like flame colored pumpkins with a toy top shape. If a chestnut, a sugarpie pumpkin,… Read More »
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 »
