Baked Sundays: Buttermilk Lasagna
Oh, hi there! I hope you didn’t think that Baked Sundays was all about cakes, cookies and sweet decadence. It’s most certainly also about savory decadence! What you’re looking at is a lasagna made with…
Pics, it happened.
A few photos from my weekend at Syd & Ken’s fabulous Mendocino hideaway.
Baked Sundays: Recipe: Banana Bar Bites
This weekend I was away visiting my friends in Mendocino, pics from that to come. While i was staying with Sydnee & Ken I got to watch as Ken made this recipe. It’s strangely fascinating…
Getaway
Spring Break for the kids at school and the adults that work there too. I’m in a sacred place far from the likes of partying spring breakers and girls ‘gone wild’ a spot in the…
Baked Sundays: Banana Bar Bites
I really have to apologize for going all ‘Food Porn” on my Baked Sundays posts, but here we are with another experiment that is almost perfect, but I need to verify the recipe works one…
Baked Sundays, a little early
Hola! So while I will be baking on Sunday, the site will be undergoing some background maintenance and I won’t be able to post tomorrow’s baking until Monday. And yes, I said a little early…
Misadventures in gluten-free baking
No, I am not going “Gluten-Free” or “GF” it ain’t happening. But I have friends with gluten issues from confirmed celiac, to people who just feeling better without gluten, so I’ve decided to see what’s…
Baked Sundays
Welcome to Baked Sundays, wherein I bake and share on Sunday. The photos at least you get today, the recipe was a first draft, so while you’ll get to see my chocolate/ginger/yogurt cake, and I…
Orange Loaf for Lionel
So, my buddy Lionel is a dessert man but he prefers the use of chocolate to be limited; he feels it’s overused in desserts, and he has a point. And it was a chocolate orange…
Persian Kotlet
Kotlet is a Persian dish made from ground meat, mashed potato, onion, herbs and spices. It’s damn tasty, and dead easy to make. If you can make a meatball, you can make this, it’s that…
Penzeys Spices
People often ask where I shop, when I lived in the NYC metro area my answer when it came to spices was Penzeys at Grand Central Market. Since moving to Berkeley I’ve had to get…
Why I decided to quit facebook…
Hello there, as you might have noticed things around here are getting a little livelier, lemmetellya what happened. In the process of finding a new place to live, I also had to set up a…
What Remains…
Gets a makeover. I used the leftover beer braised oxtail, and salsa verde to make a twist on Heuvos Rancheros. Here I simmered the oxtail meat in the salsa verde served with two eggs over…
Salsa Verde With Roasted Tomatillo
This is a fast easy recipe for a salsa verde that is bright and flavorful. Salsa Verde – Time 30 minutes, Yield aprrox 2 cups. Ingredients: 1 pound tomatillos 2 teaspooons olive oil 1/4…
Oxtail tacos with cuitlacoche, goat cheese, and salsa verde
Cuitlacoche is a fungus that grows on corn, in the United States, the FDA has gone to great lengths to eliminate this blight known as “Corn Smut,” in parts of Mexico they intentionally inoculate corn…
Beer Braised Oxtails
Ingredients: 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed or 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh, chopped 1 tablespoon dried parsley 1 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin 2 dashes cayenne 1, two inch piece of green chili, minced (polbano,or other mild-medium…
Mother
This is a poem I wrote which later became a song, it was written many years ago for my teacher Guru Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati. I am posting it here tonight as a wish that…
A PS To Pat L.
I went to the clinic today and the triage nurse sent me to the ER for X-rays, and it turns out that I broke my left clavicle at the joint. It will heal on its…
An open letter to Pat L.
Dear Pat L. (who works at a Peet’s in the East Bay), You serve me my coffee somewhat regularly, your beard and tattoos make you easily recognizable and I often see you riding your bike…
I’m A Judge At This Year’s Eat Real Festival!
I was thrilled to announce that I was asked to be judge at this year’s Eat Real Fest’s DIY Charcuterie Contest, I am also saddened to annouce the DIY Charcuterie Contest was canceled due to…