I had some very expensive uber high quality sprouted blue cornmeal in my pantry which I noticed was about to expire. That's one of my issues, I love trying out new products but after an initial recipe or two I forget and move onto the next new ingredient. When I worked at Whole Foods [...]
Yep, you read that right, kefalograviera is a Greek cheese, similar to aged ricotta or asiago. It's a sheep milk cheese. For Greek Easter my cousin went to the Greek market in So. San Francisco and called me to ask if there was anything I needed and I asked for a hunk of this [...]
You gots to LOVE bread pudding! What can be easier, save up bits and pieces of bread in the freezer and when you have enough, whip together a custard, pour it over the bread and bake and in 45 minutes or so you have a warm satisfying dessert or snack. Recently we were on [...]
Having catered for years and years I throw parties like other people change socks! However I also know that my ease of entertaining is not shared by all and after years and years of people asking, "How do you do that?" I've decided it's time to let you know. I'm putting a cookbook together [...]
When I’m off over the holidays I love having everyone over for brunch. It’s so luxurious to gather earlier in the day with the whole day ahead of us for chatting and laughing. Ideas in several new cookbooks intrigued me and they defined the menu. I couldn’t make up my mind about what recipe [...]
We started with tasting salts and sugars and we ended with spices and a brunch. The semester flew by and we had our last class this past Friday. We ended up combining two topics. I wanted to touch upon spices, show everyone how easy and economical it is to make a spice rub. By [...]
This is the time of year for baking and for apples. Last week a friend forwarded a link from the Letters From a Hill Farm blog which featured a buttermilk apple snack cake. I received the link on Friday and of course baked the cake first thing Saturday morning, and I do mean first [...]
Throughout France and many upscale restaurants Gougere are considered an appetizer but in our home they are considered breakfast! Gougere are made from pat a choux dough the same dough that is used for cream puffs, but instead of being sweet the dough has cheese and/or chives, onions, garlic in them. Whatever you feel [...]
