Dark Days Week 5: Breakfast for Dinner

  For my local dinner this week, I went for something simple – breakfast.  It really must be one of the easiest meals to do locally – eggs and bread really form the basis of most good breakfasts.  Eggs, butter, and cream from farms in Sonoma, baked with leeks and thyme from the farmer’s market, served with [...]

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Winter Pizza

Last week, it was freakishly cold, wet, and rainy here for a few days.  These ingredients made it all better.  I piled them on pizza dough topped with fontal cheese and the result was amazing.   Fontal cheese is a type of Fontina, only nuttier and earthier.  If you can’t find it, I’d go for regular Fontina if you prefer mild cheeses or [...]

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Dark Days Challenge Week 4 – Taco Night

One of the biggest perks about moving to the west coast is the good Mexican food.  I actually don’t understand how Chipotle is even profitable in this state, when the local taco trucks and burrito joints are so vastly superior.  As part of my evolution into a taco snob, I have sworn off those yellow boxed taco [...]

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Dark Days Challenge: Stuffed Delicata Squash with Leeks and Goat Cheese

As I said last week, I’m participating in the Dark Days challenge, committing to cook and blog about one meal each week that is sourced locally through March 31.  Since I really enjoyed the Moroccan spiced stuffed acorn squash I made a month ago, I wanted to try doing a different take on stuffed squash.  This [...]

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Sweet Potato Gnocchi Part Deux

When I made sweet potato gnocchi a couple weeks ago, I froze half the batch.  I wanted to try something new with the second half, so I opted for this recipe from the great blog Not Eating Out in New York.  Since the gnocchi were already made, it took me no time at all to [...]

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