More tomato awesomeness

If this was where you bought tomatoes, wouldn’t you be addicted? I rounded up another bag full of dry farmed Early Girls and made tomato confit again.  This time, I piled them on a pizza spread with marjoram-olive pesto.  So delicious. Marjoram Olive Pesto Adapted from Deborah Madison Ingredients 2 tablespoons aged red wine vinegar [...]

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My addiction

I can’t stop buying tomatoes.  The tomatoes in the Bay area right now are just incredible.  All these fantastic colors and they just taste amazing.  Fresh and sweet and not grey and mealy tasting like those sad supermarket tomatoes.  As a result, I just keep buying them.  At the farmers market near my house, at [...]

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When life hands you melons…

Make melon salsa. I made this a while back, when we were still getting boxes from our CSA.  I like melons, but I don’t love them.  I probably would order the healthy side of fruit option with a sandwich instead of fries a lot more often if it wasn’t usually just a big pile of cantelope and [...]

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Cherry dessert, take two

Back in May, when the cherries were just in season, I bought a whole bunch to make Martha Stewart’s delicious looking cherry almond teacakes for my book club.  And it was a disaster.  I am not sure how such a delicious looking recipe could result in such a hot mess, but that’s what happened.  They looked [...]

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Arborio rice, without butter or cheese

And it still tastes good! Now, don’t get me wrong.  I love me some risotto.  In fact, risotto was one of the first things I ever taught myself to make, after practicing a risotto recipe in the first cookbook I ever purchased over and over again in my tiny little studio kitchen, using a non-stick saucepan, a non-stick [...]

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Summer Dinner Party, Part I

On Saturday night, we had friends over for dinner.   The farmers market is just incredible right now, with all the wonderful summer produce everywhere, so I had a lot of fun planning out this meal.  Since I tried several new recipes, I’m going to make three posts over the course of this week.  Today, drinks and [...]

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A confession

I have an irrational phobia of pie crust. Actually, it’s not entirely irrational.  When I first started learning some basic cooking techniques, I watched an Alton Brown episode on pie crust.  Inspired, I decided that that year, for Thanksgiving, I was going to make the best damn pie crust anyone had ever eaten.  So that [...]

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Sailboats and Potatoes

The thing about being a food blogger is that you always have random photos of food in your camera.  My husband and I headed out yesterday for a sailboat cruise with friends on the San Francisco bay.  So uploading the pictures today was interesting, as sandwiched between pictures like this: were pictures of this: Nothing like bringing [...]

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Roasted Tomato Tabbouleh

I found a new use for tomatoes and basil that does not involve pesto, cheese, or pasta. We got more of them in our box last Friday and I was determined to try something different with them this time. I pulled this recipe for roasted tomato tabbouleh out of a Martha Stewart magazine ages ago [...]

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Summer Vegetable Couscous or How To Use Up All That Zucchini That You Are Sick Of

So, my camera sucks. Until I learn how to take lovely pictures of food, I will have to resort to posting my mediocre pictures. I apologize in advance, but I am practicing and hopefully things will get better. Now, on to my couscous. We’ve gotten tomatoes, zucchini, and basil in every CSA box so far [...]

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