(It’s been a while since I posted, though I’ve kept cooking, delightedly, out of the SK cookbook. But these I couldn’t resist.) Spaghetti squash and black bean tacos with queso fresco Y’all, if squash tacos are wrong, I don’t want to be right. I used to be a taco purist. I was raised in New […]
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Smitten Kitchen cookbook adventures (4)
#5: Slow cooker black bean ragout Apparently a ragout is a main-dish stew (related to the Italian ragu), usually cooked long and slow. Now you know! This is a basic bean dish, probably not that different from one you’d find in any veggie or vegan cookbook, and that’s exactly what I wanted for post-Thanksgiving. It […]
Smitten Kitchen cookbook adventures (3)
#4: Butternut squash and caramelized onion galette This is one of the recipes that immediately hit me with a “Where has this been all my life?” kind of force. I love winter squash, lately I’m obsessed with caramelized onions, and anything that involves expanding my pastry dough repertoire is a fun challenge. I decided to […]
Smitten Kitchen cookbook adventures (2)
Update on the gratin: I baked some delicata squash tonight and pureed a bit of it with some vegetable broth, to put under the leftover gratin. As I expected, it was delicious that way. #3: Kale salad with dried cherries, walnuts, and goat cheese My lackadaisical grocery shopping also interfered with the execution on this […]
Smitten Kitchen cookbook adventures (1)
I just got the Smitten Kitchen cookbook and have been drooling over the recipes. I decided to make a few this week and see how it went. #1: Fingerlings vinaigrette with sieved eggs and pickled celery ZOMG, if you’ve never put eggs through a sieve (and really, who has?) you are missing out. This salad […]
Straus Family Creamery: not just cheese
I mentioned Straus Family Creamery back in my Mt. Tam post as providing the milk that goes into Cowgirl Creamery cheese. Besides that, of course, they also make milk and other dairy products, like yogurt. Ryan very kindly brought some SFC whole-milk Eurostyle yogurt to dinner the other day as an unexpectedly awesome component of […]
Mt. Tam: cheesy edition
Back in August, training for Waves to Wine, I did a ride with J & C which ended with trip to Berkeley Bowl and the Berkeley Marina. C & I looked at cheese while we were in Berkeley Bowl and saw Mt. Tam, which was a contestant in the Tomato Nation NCheeseAA (it made it […]
Toronto: activities
What I actually did in Toronto: The ROM. You can see one of the most interesting things about it from the website — the building was recently renovated and a “Crystal” added on to the front. It wasn’t as crystalline as I expected from the name, but it’s an interesting addition. The interface between the […]
Recipe for happiness
1/4 lb TJs whole wheat pasta (cooked) + First fresh pesto of the season (so fresh it was still bright green when I put it on) + small grind each of parmesan and black pepper + Alexis = Happiness Basil, how I love thee.