With all the hype going on lately regarding the salmonella egg outbreak, people all over the country are scared to death of eggs, much less a little runny egg-yolk.  But not me.  I confidently eat my eggs as runny as can be.  Why, you ask?  Because I know exactly where my eggs came from and [...]

 
I saw this great recipe by Amanda Gold in the Chronicle on Sunday for an heirloom tomato and tuna salad, so I decided to make my own.  Ripe tomatoes are everywhere now (except in my backyard, thanks to late planting and colder and cloudier weather than usual for this time of year), and they are at [...]

Almond Milk

 
I’ve had a number of responses to my recent posts on raw milk.  It’s exciting that so many people are interested in trying it.  But I also know that it is difficult to come by in many states.  And sometimes you need a substitute when baking, because even raw milk isn’t raw anymore if [...]

 
One of my favorite meals is duck leg confit.  Duck legs have a lot of fat on them, but the secret to confit is that slow-cooking them in their own fat makes the meat tender and juicy and the skin crispy as it cooks away the fat.  The problem with most confit recipes is that it is [...]

 
I get a lot of my recipe ideas from the NY Times’ dining section.  This week they were focusing on White House chefs, which I found particularly interesting because of Michelle Obama’s commitment to children’s nutrition and gardening.  There was a recipe from the Obama’s favorite chef in Chicago, Rick Bayless, that caught my eye [...]

 
I have a friend who says she never eats salads for lunch because she says they don’t fill her up.  She’s never had one of my salads.  For me, salads are the main course every day for lunch.  They are a full meal.  My latest craze is to make a salad with canned wild red [...]

 
This is one of my favorite comfort meals (and my husband’s favorite as well), perfect anytime - whether it’s a chilly day or springtime, or whenever fresh cauliflower & cabbage are in season (for California that’s almost anytime - though in the summer I prefer seasonals such as zucchini).  I love to add reconstituted dried [...]

 
Lately I’ve gone back to eating oats.  Gluten-free oats, that is.  I’ve written about oats before but it’s worth revisiting — oats themselves do not contain gluten, but they are often cross-contaminated with wheat.  So unless they are certified gluten-free there is a chance they may contain wheat, and therefore gluten.  There are a couple of sources [...]

 
Last Saturday morning I planned to catch an early yoga class and swing by the farmers’ market on the way to pick up some eggs (you have to get there really early before they run out of pastured eggs!).  To my surprise they not only had eggs but they were selling whole, pasture-raised chickens!  I [...]

Dutch Apple-Buckwheat Crepes

 
I decided to revive an old buckwheat crepe recipe which I make all the time, but my original post calls for fresh berries.  This is not really appropriate or desireable during the winter time because fresh berries are not in season.  In the fall, I like to top them with sliced persimmons or pears, [...]