The Master’s Swim Team that I work out with has been having a big event this month, encouraging swimmers to swim 50,000 yards, or 100,000 yards, or whatever gigantic number of yards they desire. The idea is to reinvigorate your workout and challenge yourself. Because of a cold and a little travel, I am going [...]
This weekend’s Farmer’s Market was fabulous! At my favorite greens stand, I picked up a bag of baby beet greens and a pound of purple potatoes. At another organic stall, I found some fresh asparagus. And just next to that, baby artichokes from Castroville, the home of Artichokes! Here is my menu plan for the [...]
Last week I was invited to attend a cooking demonstration with Chef Tal Ronnen at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco. Chef Tal was on a book tour, promoting the conscious cook, a full color vegan cookbook published in October 2009. Chef Tal prepared vegan meals for Oprah’s 21-day vegan cleanse in the spring [...]
Have you ever wondered where your food comes from? Ever curious about how your vegetables are grown, the path your fruit takes to arrive at your table? Well, if you subscribe to a Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, you will never wonder again. Since 2005, we have subscribed to a vegetable delivery service which provides [...]
Last month, we learned to cook pasta the Italian way, at a cooking party to benefit our school. Our hostesses, Lucia and Susanna, from La Bottega in Menlo Park, created a thoughtful menu highlighting three pasta dishes from the north, center and south of Italy – Linguine al Pesto, Bucatini Casio e Pepe, and Caserecce [...]
More rain is scheduled for this week, and with that, I definitely feel like comfort food. Yesterday, a few of us were chatting about our favorite way to cook vegetables, and roasting was by far the preferred method. Everything from brussel sprouts to sweet potatoes taste better when roasted with olive oil and a sprinkle [...]
Today’s mother-daughter Valentine’s Day party called for a little adult beverage. Something light. Something fruity. Something like Sangria. Sangria Thanks to suggestions from Lisa and Peggy, I thought I would look up a recipe and see what I could pull together. I had a load of citrus from our Frog Hollow Farms CSA box this [...]
Again, this week, I pulled my menu plan together Saturday night, so I could take advantage of the Farmer’s Market on Sunday morning. After a quick perusal of the Sunday newspaper, I jumped out of bed and swooped through the market to pick up key ingredients. One of the stands I like offers a whole [...]
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