Feed your family. Feed your soul.
If you’ve ever craved comfort food that doesn’t take hours to make then this is for you. Our quick turkey enchilada bowls begin with seasoned low fat turkey in a spiced sauce, cooked in minutes. Then you choose how you like to finish the …read more
I recently discovered Lateral Cooking, the latest cookbook and culinary term to hit the airwaves on this side of the Atlantic, written by the author of the Flavour Thesaurus Niki Segnit.
For Carli, our social media intern from The Cove School, one of her independent living goals is to learn how to cook. The path to transition isn’t always straightforward, and as Carli noted in her letter last week “it is hard!” She’s burned pans, and, both …read more
On my travels this week I’ve come to Northern England where I’m discovering the delights of locally sourced venison meat from Yorkshire. In my home landscape of hills and dales, there is a lot to be celebrated.
Notwithstanding living in the United States for upwards of 6 years, I continue to familiarize myself with the different cuts of meat while matching them with their English counterparts.
Back in September when Meg was on a tour of the California coast celebrating her anniversary, she sent me an idea.
“Can one imagine Mediterranean food without tomatoes?” Jane Grigson asks in her Vegetable book, 1978. Add to that chilis and I declare two of the most used ingredients in my kitchen.
Black turtle beans were hard to find in England 8 years ago and when I did they were intimidating. Although they looked delicate and pretty, they were dried, hard, black, and shiny so I wasn’t convinced that I could turn them into anything appetizing. My exposure …read more
The flip side to last week’s 10 hour slow cooker Smoky BBQ pulled pork recipe is our shorter 3-4 hours slow cooker tangy salmon tacos recipe. This month is all about putting a little Zen back into my own kitchen, using our own Slow Cooker Spice Blends.
With crab season opening in the San Francisco Bay area this week I’ve turned our culinary attention to my favorite ingredient.
“It’s continuing traditions that are well-established for a reason…” “New World food is exciting, tasty, healthy, romantic, and possibly, easier on the earth” – Steve Sando’s thoughts on using beans indigenous to The Americas (Rancho Gordo Beans)Â
In the early days of getting to know my slow cooker, I understood it to be the fix-it-& forget-it gadget which favors meat based all day cooking recipes. But Meg and I discovered that it can accomplish so much more.
