Garden-to-table

In April I had the opportunity to take a class from someone I have long admired and whose book, The New Wildcrafted Cuisine, I own: Pascal Baudar. Despite this admiration, it took me a while to [...]

Sometimes there’s nothing better for dinner than breakfast. It feels a little decadent, a tad indulgent and super comforting. But apart from good old bacon and eggs, the trouble with most [...]

Necessity may be the mother of invention but nothing motivates me to get creative in the kitchen like homegrown produce without a purpose. And yesterday provided me with plenty of motivation as [...]

So the (relatively) cool fall-like weather we’re experiencing this week in California is taking me back in time to my elementary school days and that time-honored tradition of the [...]

For three years I’ve had a little Calamondin citrus tree growing in a pot in my backyard. This year was the first that it bore any fruit and was the first time I had an opportunity to taste [...]

I have a confession to make: while I was in culinary school I had a spicy little fling with a Spaniard I met there. In the heady, early days of the romance, my love interest seemed to make [...]

My husband and I both have birthdays at the end of May. We were married on the 16th of that month as well. For years we have celebrated these as a combined occasion, usually with an extended [...]

The list below includes a few of the things that I was pondering before I drifted  off to sleep one night a few weeks ago: What is growing in my garden and/or in season that I can ferment now? [...]

In Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins wrote, “The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent [...]