I’m off to Pescadero today, to get dried beans at Phipp’s Country Store. I’m sure it will be a beautiful drive up the San Mateo County coast; the NY Times even has an article about it, although from the other direction. And the whole Sunday Magazine is about food again. Thanks to Rebecca Thistlethwaite who [...]
So I made lots of cookies yesterday. I looked at lots of biscotti recipes, which are mostly normal cookie-type doughs (butter, sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder) but I was intrigued by a recipe in The Italian Baker, by Carol Field, which was more of a genoise-type batter (beaten eggs and sugar) without the butter. But [...]
This morning brings two articles, one from the Merc, and one from the Chron, about a report (link goes to a 15 MB PDF) issued by the San Francisco Estuary Institute about the health of the bay. The coverage of these issues is as interesting to me as the issues themselves. The news is that [...]
I gathered fennel seeds along Los Gatos Creek Trail this morning. I’m going to use the seeds to flavor the biscotti I’m serving for dessert at The Bounty of Heart’s Delight. I’ll be doing the test baking for that and the crackers tomorrow, I think. Then it was off to the farm, where I arrived [...]
Today I went to beautiful Mission San José, which is, inexplicably, in Fremont, for the Olive Festival. It was very cute, in a small town festival way. (And Fremont is not a small town.) There were cheesy jewelry booths and odd, animal-shaped purses, but what there really was, was olive oil. Lots and lots of [...]
The Metro has a very positive article on South Bay urban farms: Full Circle in Sunnyvale, Happy Quail in East Palo Alto, and, of course, our own Veggielution. Tomorrow I’m off to Fremont to the Olive Festival to buy oil and brined olives to serve at the Bounty of Heart’s Delight. Look for a full [...]
Today we have:(clockwise from the bottom) a largre, heirloom tomato, eggplants, beets, peppers (in the bag) radishes, eggs, lettuce, basil, collards, spinach (hidden in a bag) tomatoes, apples, and then potatoes, carrots and a melon in the center. The eggplants and peppers are roasting as I type (along with last week’s, which got ignored in [...]