Persian Noodle Soup (Ash Reshteh)
Gingerbread Cake with Rum Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting
Butternut Bisque with Crab
Pear and Almond Tart
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 »
Otis the Pup & Chicken Processing
Time to do some weeding. This blog is seriously overgrown. After two years of barely having enough time to respond to email let alone cleanse the ridiculous spam… Read More »
Sweet!
Year in review: I packed up my stuff from New York and drove out to San Francisco. Opened (or re-opened) three restaurants. Two of which could really go… Read More »
Echo Valley Ranch Rules
I jump in the jeep and peel off down the coastal Highway One towards Santa Cruz. Radio blaring, hair stinging my eyes with the wind whipping it every… Read More »
