Sweet Onions
During a recent cooking class at Plate It Up!, I learned about sweet onions. Now I use nothing else. I discovered that they have a slightly sweet flavor (without giving up any of the classic onion flavor). Sweet Onions also…
Hand Blender
I bought a new toy... excuse me, new tool. I decided to make this delicious-sounding recipe from my Sonoita Seasons cookbook for Cream of Broccoli and Stilton Cheese Soup. After cooking the broccoli, it needed to be run through the…
Chocolate Bundt Cake
OK, I can't really classify making a cake from a boxed cake mix as 'baking'. Baking is something I have not tried much of (though I did make a raspberry clafoutis from scratch a while back). I figured that if…
Sonoita Seasons Cookbook
Only half in jest, I often say that I am not a cook, I am a ‘recipe follower’. As a result, you can imagine that I’m always looking for interesting, useful cookbooks. It is not often that I encounter a…
Re: Pete Well’s Article
There has been a lot of buzz among the foodie bloggers the past few days about an article written by Pete Wells in Food & Wine Magazine. Mr. Wells is pretty condescending and dismissive of food blogs. It reminded me…
St Valentines Day Dinner
What would a cooking blog be without a St. Valentines Day post? This year I decided that instead of taking my wife out for dinner, I would make her a nice dinner at home. It turned out to be much…
Restaurant Jeanne D’ Arc
Restaurant Jeane D' Arc is apparently a well kept secret. Housed in the basement of the Cornell Hotel de France, 715 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94108, the hotel and restaurant have been run by the same family for forty…
Cafe Claude
We visited Cafe Claude in San Francisco for lunch. It's a little hard to find. From the south side of Bush and Grant - across the street from the Chinatown Gate - walk east (downhill) and you will come to…
Cafe de la Presse
Our first meal on our San Francisco vacation was at Cafe de la Presse, located on the southeast corner of Grant and Bush - right across the street from the gate to Chinatown. This is the French area of San…