Perfect Spring Dinner
Tonight we enjoyed the perfect spring dinner, and you can, too. First I stirred together olive oil, a tablespoon each of sherry vinegar, lemon juice, and pomegranate molasses, brown sugar, and shakes of ground sumac, salt and pepper, and this did double duty as marinade and salad dressing.. Then I poured a little over 3 [...]
Provence in Berkeley
My friend Blanche is spending the year in Provence. She’ll meet her family in Paris for the holidays, but basically she’s staying in Provence and reports that it is very hard work to obtain the visa for a year in France. It involves standing in long lines for many, many hours in Nice. That [...]
Easy Mediterranean Feast
In the past 25 years, I’ve eaten my way through France, Italy and Mexico. In 2004 I discovered the wonderful foods of Spain during a whirlwind trip to Andalusia with friend Suzanne. We ate tapas everywhere, but also wonderful wild mushrooms sauteed with eggs outside Ubeda, shrimp pancakes and octopus salad in Sanlucar, paella in [...]
Chowder for Supper
Heidi is currently touring the Eastern Seaboard, thus chowder is on our minds. This article comes from Heidi’s archives: I worked all day, and came home to some chunks of salmon salvaged from a delicious dinner last weekend and the challenge of luring the kids into liking another meal featuring salmon. Easy solution: a chowder I [...]
Dessert is Dinner
What’s for Dinner? What’s for Dessert? Sometimes, Dessert IS Dinner at our house. Especially in spring and summer, the abundance of delicious fresh fruit in California makes it easy to make excuses. Once, long ago, we came into a pile of fresh, ripe peaches and decided, just that once, that we would skip dinner and [...]
