With Thanksgiving coming up I should be blogging about pumpkin pies and turkey, but here I am sharing a salad recipe. It’s so silly of me, but this is one I shot/wrote a while back during the tail-end of kumquat season, saved a draft and never shared. Well, better late than never! This one is […]
Chopped Liver on Lavash Crackers Putting aside all preconceived notions of chopped liver (what am I…), I whipped up this little appetizer for my friend Shauna's birthday. I was a bit apprehensive at first having never sampled this standard deli fare and as most of you know by now, contrary to popular belief, I am […]
Roasted Yellow Carrot Soup Making vegetable stock has become somewhat of a weekly ritual for me. The increased frequency is in part due to a tip from Bourgeois Bee. He told me that he uses his carrot tops for stock. And though I enjoy eating the carrot tops, it's more of a once in a […]
Beet & Avocado Salad If you've been reading my blog for the past year (since the start), you might remember me doing birthday posts for each of my three sisters. A flour-less chocolate cake for Becky (3rd), vanilla cupcakes with Valrhona buttercream for Jenny (4th) and a crock pot cake for Maria (1st). As you […]
Seared Magdalena Scallops with Asparagus Veloute & Chioggia Beets How many times have I been asked about cow tipping? Countless. How many cows have I tipped? Nada, zero, zilch. Being from the "Asparagus Capital of the World", most people have a preconceived idea about my childhood. And though it is a very agricultural area of […]
SM Farmers' Market tribute salad It's no wonder that the Santa Monica Farmer's Market has its very own cook book. This place is loaded with an incredible variety of fruit and vegetables year round. My friend visiting from Kansas was amazed. He said, "if we had a farmers' market this time of year, you could […]
