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Roasted Cauliflower with Chard, Chickpeas and Dukkah
November 7th, 2011by Caroline Chard and cauliflower are two of my family’s favorite winter vegetables, but I’d never thought to combine them in one dish, nor to add chickpeas to make it a really hearty vegetarian dish (this would be a great way to keep your favorite vegetarians and vegans happy at Thanksgiving). Plus the dukkah is [...]
Halloween
November 1st, 2011by Lisa Aside from the costumes and the chocolate, we have a one rock solid Halloween tradition. Every year, we pick popcorn at Ardenwood Farm, and then the kids package it in treat bags, with a few candy corn & directions for drying and popping. It’s a lot of corn to pick and carry, and [...]
Butternut Squash & Hominy Stew
October 31st, 2011by Caroline This is absolutely not a recipe I would make just for my family, since my kids are at the stage when stews and other cooked food mixtures don’t appeal to them at all (although they will happily eat their own weird combinations of food, if they make them themselves). But, this recipe arrived [...]
Big Brother in the Cafeteria
October 26th, 2011by Caroline Yesterday, I came across the news that an elementary school in San Antonio has instituted a new program of photographing bar coded student lunch trays to track what the students eat: A computer program then analyzes the photos to identify every piece of food on the plate — right down to how many [...]
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 [...]