From the recipe archive, for St. Patrick’s Day, enjoy! ~Elise

Last year for St. Patrick’s Day, my friend Suzanne had me over for dinner with her family and served the tastiest corned beef…

It seems like every culture with a coastline has their version of a seafood stew. The French have bouillabaise, the Portuguese bacalhoada, New England “chowdah” and San Francisco cioppino….

One of the things I love about making soda bread is that it is just so darn easy. With yeast breads you have to proof the yeast, knead the dough, let the dough rise, etc. But with soda breads,…

From the recipe archive. Because I have a craving for chicken, while the rest of the gang is making Swiss steak. ~Elise

Overheard at the market, “I’m a breast girl.” “Really? I’m definitely…

For those of you out there that cannot fathom even the idea of beets, fine. Truly, I’m a-okay with it. That only means there is more of this beet hummus for me. I ate this entire batch,…

Unlike much of the country, Sacramento isn’t blanketed in snowy white in the dead of winter. We are blessed instead with plenty of green, with flowery shows of red and pink from camellias,…

One of the things I love about butternut squash, or any winter squash for that matter, is that they’re practically indestructible. They last for months. You can harvest one in November…

My friends are so very patient with me. BFF Steve-Anna first emailed me this spicy, peppery shrimp recipe, a favorite of hers, four years ago. And then again, at least two or three more…

To make cheese puffs, first you make a pâte a choux dough (pronounced “pat ah shoo”), which, if you’ve never made it before, can seem a little weird. Weird because most of us who bake…

Please welcome guest contributor Hank Shaw of Hunter, Angler, Gardener, Cook as he shares his method for making what he affectionately calls “ghetto duck confit”. So easy, and outrageously…