Summer Buttermilk Panna Cotta: Simplest Dessert Ever Skip to Recipe This dessert takes five minutes to make. Ten minutes tops. And it’s a great way to use up leftover buttermilk. For... Continue Reading Buttermilk Panna Cotta: Simplest Dessert Ever»
Bread Recipes Trying To Understand The Food Crisis and Artisan Bread In Five Minutes A Day: Corn Bread In a May 19th New Yorker article, Bee Wilson wrote: “As of 2006, there were 800 million people on the planet who were hungry,... Continue Reading Trying To Understand The Food Crisis and Artisan Bread In Five Minutes A Day: Corn Bread»
Appetizers Homemade Roasted Red Peppers On Wednesday, I found the dollar bin at the Santa Monica farmers’ market. One of the stands was selling bell peppers, a mix of... Continue Reading Homemade Roasted Red Peppers»
Desserts Lemon-Buttermilk Cake On Sunday, Ben and I celebrated the recent marriage of two friends with cake and champagne. Because the bride had to jump on a... Continue Reading Lemon-Buttermilk Cake»
Breakfast Tomatoes: Morning, Noon & Night Oh, to live in New York in August. And late July and early September. To have access to New York bagels during tomato season... Continue Reading Tomatoes: Morning, Noon & Night»
Appetizers Tomato, Basil, Mozzarella It has been done to death. Caprese salad that is. But there’s a reason it appears on nearly every restaurant menu come summertime: It’s... Continue Reading Tomato, Basil, Mozzarella»
Salads Melon & Cucumber Salad I have a habit of adding cheese to every salad I make. Often I add nuts, too, and maybe dried fruit if I’ve got... Continue Reading Melon & Cucumber Salad»
Summer Fish Tacos, Whisk n’ Ladle, Mango-Jicama Slaw, MSC-Certified Halibut & Reamers I’m feeling sort of overwhelmed by everything I want to fit into this post. Bullet points, I hope, will help my cause. • So,... Continue Reading Fish Tacos, Whisk n’ Ladle, Mango-Jicama Slaw, MSC-Certified Halibut & Reamers»
Breakfast Ferry Building Farmers’ Market Primavera Mexican Stand + So Much Good Food Two years ago, while visiting San Francisco for a wedding, Ben and I discovered the Primavera Mexican stand at the Saturday Ferry Building farmers’... Continue Reading Ferry Building Farmers’ Market Primavera Mexican Stand + So Much Good Food»
Travel Pizzeria Mozza — So Yum Last night at 10:30 p.m., Ben and I finally dined at Pizzeria Mozza, the Nancy Silverton-Mario Batali-Joseph Bastianich pizza joint in Hollywood. To start,... Continue Reading Pizzeria Mozza — So Yum»
Summer S’mores + Margaritas Skip to Recipe A recipe for s’mores I believe is unnecessary. This recipe for margaritas, however, I must share with you. Over the weekend,... Continue Reading S’mores + Margaritas»
Bread Recipes Artisan Bread Round II, Cooked in A Pot So, I thought I’d give a brief update on my Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day escapades. This batch is my third, and... Continue Reading Artisan Bread Round II, Cooked in A Pot»