Roasted Carrot & Parsnip Soup with Lemon Ginger Cream
Are you noticing a pattern yet? I love soup. And I saw a cloud in the sky yesterday for the first time in about a week, so I made some. This has to be my favorite soup genre. The “chop stuff up, roast it and blend it with some stock” kind. It works for every […]
Chocolate Pots de Crème
Can you believe I had never made pots de crème before the other day? I couldn’t either. I was forced to face this reality while flipping through the February Martha Stewart Living. After drooling over the photo in the magazine, I fondly recalled a few of these darling cups of decadence I had enjoyed in […]
Spicy Guacamole
This is a recipe that really makes me miss San Diego. Guacamole used to be a fairly large part of my diet! Between my regular stops at a variety of Mexican restaurants and drive-thrus, and the near constant availability of quality guacamole ingredients, there was always an excuse to indulge in this flavorful dip. Guacamole […]
Braised Kale and Cannellini Beans
Whoa, where did this day go?! I guess I got a little distracted by that amazing 49ers game (and black bean hummus, and good beer). That’s kind of how this whole week has felt, actually. I cooked this lovely little side dish on Thursday (I think?) and I’m just now sitting down to tell you […]
Herb Scallion Biscuits
There’s a pattern emerging. It all starts with me cleaning my kitchen. And I mean deep cleaning. The kind where the gloves go on and the stove comes apart. I should mention that this doesn’t take place very often, but when it does it’s always the same thing. As soon as I’m done I get […]
Black Bean Hummus
Oh, hello 2012. I almost didn’t see you there. Usually as a new year begins, I find myself struggling to remember what in the world I spent the previous year doing, and how it managed to fly by so quickly. Not this time. In fact, when I looked back at 2011 I was kind of […]
Persimmon Bread Pudding
Persimmons. Where have you been all my life? These unsung heroes of the fruit stand were only introduced to me a few years ago at a farmers market. One of the vendors was giving out samples and, as is always the case with food, I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to try something I’d never […]
Curry Lentil Soup
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Bay Area – in ways both good and, well… otherwise. People really get into the spirit up here, and in the absence of leaves on the trees (which I thoroughly enjoyed watching fall – we don’t get much of that back in San Diego) there […]
Pear Upside-Down Cake
When I turned the page in Bon Appétit to this recipe on a recent flight down to San Diego, I may have gasped out loud. In fact I must have, because suddenly the guy next to me was looking over curiously. “What could be more captivating than the holiday issue of SkyMall?!”, he must’ve been […]