This time of year is a tomato time of year in northern California. We pull copious numbers of still-warm tomatoes straight off the vine. Some get canned. Some get made into sauce. Some get eaten right there in the garden, our bodies bent at the waist, the juices falling back into the earth.
September 20, 2011
Not for the faint of heart, these meaty maraschino cherries are a breeze to whip up and make for an unexpected treat at the bottom of a Shirley Temple, Manhattan or our very own Ruby Tuesday.
To make your own marashino cherries:
September 14, 2011
Grilled salsa?! Sounds messy, right? To an unknowing ear, the phrase might conjure visions of pouring a jar of salsa over the grate of a hot barbeque. Hmm. There are some logistics to work out there.
September 12, 2011
Snacks. Truth be told, we hate ‘em just as much as we love ‘em. Seems like as soon as a meal’s finished and cleaned up, the ol’ tum starts rumbling again. Curses on our appetites!
September 7, 2011
Could a breakfast GET any better than a Dutch Baby (aka German Pancake) hot out of the oven, garnished with nothing more than drippingly sweet peaches?!
No. No, it could not.
In light of the holiday weekend, we urge you to give this one a go, and to enjoy it again and again. Saturday with berries and powdered sugar; Sunday with vanilla yogurt and sliced peaches; Monday with cooked apples with cinnamon, sugar and walnuts. You pretty much can’t go wrong.
September 2, 2011
Bon Appetit’s gluten-free feature was a little sparse on recipes to really be considered a feature, but still. GLUTEN-FREE IS SO MAINSTREAM! Loving it. And we loved these lentil cakes. Whipped ‘em up Friday night — with ingredients we had on-hand in our kitchen, how amazing is that?! — and num-num-num-ed our way through them. Not a crumb went uneaten.
August 29, 2011
Photograph by Heidi Swanson
Check out this feature blog from Bon Appétit magazine. Quinoa has DEFINITELY made the mainstream. Go ancient grain, go!
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August 23, 2011
For this weekend’s events and snack attacks alike, we’ve matched up Blue Diamond Baked Nut Chips vs. Crunchmaster Multi-Grain Crackers, who will duke it out to the finish! Both sport a mild sea salt flavor. Both stand tall against a cocktail and hunk of truffle-infused cheese. But which is the winner? There can only be one.
August 19, 2011
We’ve a garden that’s bursting with healthy greens and a Gravenstein apple tree that’s loaded to the gills — if apple trees had gills — with fruit. Time to put that home-grown goodness to good use!
This meal is a quick one to whip up, hearty, and speaks to the coming of autumn (gulp!).
August 16, 2011
You know how sometimes you get home from work a little later than usual and it’s the first time all day you’ve thought about dinner and you’re starving and you’ve forgotten that there’s absolutely nothing in your pantry? Just that lonely can of tuna you were saving for lunch one of these days. Maybe some frost-bitten peas in the back of the freezer behind the block of ice that you’ve avoided for the last year-and-a-half because it reeks of old salmon.
August 12, 2011
The Gluten Free Lab