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Cauliflower Compote
October 23rd, 2011by Caroline So, remember last week, I wrote about single words that can draw you into a recipe? Well, compote is definitely not one of those words for me. It just sounds like a food dump; I guess it sounds a bit too much like compost. But the combination of ingredients in this recipe from [...]
The clothes made the food
October 18th, 2011By Lisa Last night, we came home from Ella’s soccer practice at about 5:15 pm, and I set to preparing dinner. Ella and I had about 45 minutes before Finn and his dad returned from their soccer practice. Plenty of time for me to get dinner done and Ella to finish her homework and shower [...]
Pasta Romanesco
October 17th, 2011by Caroline Of all the new vegetables we’ve met via our CSA — the cardoons, the agretti — I think my favorite might be romanesco broccoli, the fractal vegetable. It’s firmer than standard broccoli but sweeter than cauliflower, and it tasted great the other night in an easy pasta with lemon zest, sliced almonds, and [...]
Homemade Ricotta Cheese
October 12th, 2011by Caroline Years ago, the summer between Tony’s and my marriage and my first pregnancy, we travelled in Italy with good friends, gorging on art and wine and food. In Bologna, we ate in a small restaurant that was dominated by a dark wood, marble-topped hutch. It held bowls of beautiful antipasti: roasted peppers, olives, [...]
Quick Yeast Bread
October 3rd, 2011by Caroline We love bread. And while it is very easy, living in San Francisco, to buy a different kind of delicious bread every day, we love to make it, too. I learned by watching my mom make bread every week, and my kids are learning the same way. In fact, if I can send [...]
Goodbye to all that
September 29th, 2011By Lisa not much more al fresco dining Even though the temperatures here are still summerlike, and our markets are still full of piles of plums, rainbow swaths of tomatoes, giant bouquets of cilantro and basil, I am facing the end of summer and all that comes with it. This weekend, I will slow roast [...]
The Quarter-Acre Farm: book giveaway!
September 28th, 2011by Caroline I grew up in a beautiful, green town where families maintained very careful lawns and flower gardens and tidy backyard patches of vegetables. When we moved in, my parents considered the yards (front and back), their size, their access to sun, and ultimately put in two vegetable gardens: one outside the kitchen door, [...]
Ella’s Grilled Salmon Back Sandwich
September 22nd, 2011By Lisa Salmon Backs are a seasonal favorite around here. If salmon is in season, we’re sure to eat this cut of the fish nearly once a week. It’s fast, flavorful, and really economical. I can’t afford to keep my family in salmon filets or steaks, but I can afford to feed them piles of [...]
Melon Soup
September 20th, 2011By Lisa Over the weekend I went on a juicing binge brought on by an unexpected CSA delivery, which brought us an extra melon,which brought our household total to 3 ripe melons. Usually its no chore to eat one in a day, but all three of these beauties weren’t going to wait. So I brought [...]
Panna Cotta Ice Cream
September 13th, 2011by Lisa Most summers we go a little nuts for ice cream. I have two ice creams makers (traditional and soft serve) and it’s not been unheard of for me to whip up a batch of ice cream at least once a week. Caroline makes more than her share of ice cream in the summer, [...]