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A Fall Garden in Los Altos — a guest post

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Onion sets of Sweet White Spanish and Stockton Red, two varieties that produce softball- sized heads next April-July. Behind them is a bed of exotic Italian Radicchio—Castelfranco, Grumulo and Varigated Chioggia types. They are shaded now by some San Marzano tomato cages, but these will be out next month.

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Tiny Tapas Peppers

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Jack spotted these little beauties at our local farmers’ market on Sunday morning; that evening I sauteed them in olive oil, dusted them with sea salt and served them alongside a mound of soft goat cheese, duplicating a dish we’d had at one of my favorite  restaurants, The Cellar Door Cafe in Santa Cruz.
These are [...]

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Sunday in the city with Penny

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

This is going to be a very short post.  And a bossy one.  If you have even the mildest interest in photography and you ever have the chance to attend a workshop with Penny de Los Santos, do not miss the opportunity.  The Sunday I spent with her and 25 other food bloggers  — first [...]

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Tiny pears for a galette a deux

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Ever since I learned from Dorie Greenspan that even the top French pastry shops usually use canned pears in their pear tarts I’ve been experimenting with various brands, and, to my amazement, all have worked splendidly.
When I found this jar of mini-pears I knew they’d look cute in a small galette and thought they’d be [...]

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4 Questions 4: The Fabulous & Opinionated Tom and Lorenzo

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

The Fabulous Project RunGay Guys
If  I could spend a long, laughter-filled  dinner with any two big shots of the blogosphere, I’d  choose those rockstars formerly known as The Project RunGay guys and now as Tom & Lorenzo.  Though fashion, rather than food, is their subject matter I suspected they’d also have strong, irreverent opinions about [...]

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Of Course You Have Some Bananas

Monday, February 8th, 2010

During a recent drawer de-cluttering I discovered a packet of recipe cards from the phase of my cooking life known as Early Marriage or Bride in the Kitchen. Highlights of the period included many failed Hollandaise attempts, way too many sauces based on canned soups and an astonishingly awful shrimp dish that called for [...]

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Gourmet Guppies

Monday, February 1st, 2010

We were in the lounge at Alain Chapel’s restaurant in Mionnay, France — perusing the menu while sipping champagne and nibbling on piping hot, exquisitely crisp fried whitebait — when another couple asked to join us. “So damned glad to hear someone speaking English,” the husband boomed.
He plucked the last tiny fish from the linen-lined [...]

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Hello, Gorgeous!

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Hello, Gorgeous!, originally uploaded by caseyell.

Warning: braggadocio ahead:
I have organized my cookbooks. All [I'm not telling the number] of them. This is one of three cabinet/shelf sections just off my kitchen and I know exactly which cookbook is in every one of them. Far more important, I can locate recipes in most [...]

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Looks like a galette,

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Pear-Rosemary Pizza, originally uploaded by caseyell.
but actually a pizza — in fact, a sublime dessert pizza served by a friend at the end of a wonderful Italian dinner.
Sweet Rosemary-Pear Pizza
Pastry:
1.5 cups all-purpose flour
generous 1/4 tsp salt
1.5 tsp. sugar
1 stick (4oz) cold, unsalted butter, cut into chunks
1 large egg. beaten
2-3 TB. cold water
Topping:
4 firm-ripe Bosc [...]

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Galettes Galore

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Galettes Galore, originally uploaded by caseyell.
Margin Notes is embarking on a galette-making festival. A tart is my favorite dessert and a galette my favorite form of tart: — easy to shape and with a generous ratio of crust to filling.
Last night’s galette featured paper-thin slices of Pink Pearl apples spiked with a small handful [...]

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