June 6, 2011
I was inspired to make these after seeing Eva Longoria prepare skirt steak recipes to promote her new cook book, Eva’s Kitchen. She was on Martha Stewart’s show to demonstrate her technique with grilling skirt steak for tacos. I must say, she was a great guest. I find some people don’t know how to interact with Martha, who is such an authority in the culinary world. Eva was really knowledgable and informative as she walked through the recipe and was being interviewed. After that, on Food Network’s Mexican Made Easy, Eva created chunky guacamole, the perfect topping for quesadillas.
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June 29, 2010
After churning out two quarts of sorbet this past week, I got up bright and early Sunday morning for Sur la Table’s ice cream class. I guess the sorbets was the equivalent of doing conditioning before a marathon. I was just warming up for the main event.
Menu (my lunch on Sunday):
Lemon Curd Ice Cream with Blackberry Swirl
Butter Pecan Ice Cream with Peanut Brittle
Mexican Chocolate Sundaes
Strawberry Ice Cream/Strawberry Milkshakes
A slice of lemon curd ice cream. To get the layered look, we formed the ice cream into a loaf pan. A bottom layer of lemon curd, middle layer of blackberry syrup, top layer of lemon curd and finished with more blackberry syrup. Then after it hardened, we unmolded the pan and sliced the ice cream.
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June 27, 2010
When it comes to sorbets, gelatos and ice creams I like flavors focus on one main ingredient. It is fun to have chunks, swirls, and sauces, but there is nothing like the intense taste of a single flavor. I made two sorbets that celebrate berries, the olaillieberry and strawberry. For a refreshing summer touch, I jazzed up the strawberry sorbet with Prosecco.
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What to do with eight pounds of freshly picked olaillieberries. A lovely dilemma because now I have a good base ingredient to experiment with. I wanted a dessert that would showcase the fruit on its own so I thought, a pie. An olaillieberry pie filled to the brim of just the berries and a bit of sugar to bring out the natural sweetness.
A nice helping of pie with a thin crust and berries oozing out the sides.
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June 22, 2010
I really get in the mood for summer as soon as berries show up at the farmer’s market. Of course those berries don’t just magically appear all neatly packed into those square cartons. Someone has to pick them. I decided to experience what it would be like to do it myself.
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September 27, 2009
 Using ricotta cheese, I created lemon ricotta pancakes for breakfast . The ricotta is the magic ingredient as it makes the pancakes so light that I managed to eat a stack of four.
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September 24, 2009
Figs are the perfect transition ingredient between seasons. They show up at the markets in July so they are great for grilling on warm summer nights or roasting in the fall. Some of us cannot let go of summer so figs help ease into the cooler weather months.
 The finale for all my fig experimentation, a tart with lemon marscapone cream and roasted balsamic figs.
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September 22, 2009
I don’t mind eating fig newtons, but I’m really not a big fan. The cookie/cake part is kind of dry and the figs are not a good combination with it. Maybe there isn’t enough fig filling so the whole thing is just dry. Instead of figuring it out I’ll just show you how I think figs can be great.
I was given a large batch (are figs in batches?) and was ready to experiment. The logical thing to do would have been to pick a recipe and use as many figs as I could because I had A LOT. Of course I don’t make things easy and wanted to try a bunch of recipes. Hope this inspires some to give figs a try.
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September 16, 2009
A tart inspired by one of my favorite Pixar movies, Ratatouille. One of the reasons I love the movie is because of the gorgeous visuals of Paris and the highlight of the movie, at least for me, the ratatouille scene. The attention and care put into layering each vegetable slice into the baking dish was visually stunning and even better was the perfectly stacked bite that the critic tasted. I’m starting to drool so I’ll get on with the post.
In my previous blog entry, I mentioned a recent farmer’s market trip where I found generous bunches of basil. I also picked up some really colorful squash because it reminded me of Ratatouille. I decided to make a tart.
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September 4, 2009
Since I had done a Julia Child dinner recipe, I felt like I needed to try a dessert recipe as well. The plum cakes comes from Dorie Greenspan’s book, Baking with Julia. The photo looked rustic and homey and I love the idea of a individual size cake. The recipe can be found online here. Not bad at 204 calories per serving.
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My life is food and I am lucky to experience it in San Francisco. Williams-Sonoma is my 8-5 and more because I dream the store is my kitchen. The Ferry Building farmer's market is my inspiration for baking in my half-sized apartment. When I'm not there, I'm out searching for the city's best eats, with special attention to sweets. I hope in perusing my blog, you are inspired with ideas for cooking, entertaining and tasting new things. Email me
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