Yesterday was the perfect day for a picnic. And picnic we did on Tiburon with a marvelous view of the entire bay. David suggested we make some wraps to take on the picnic and gave me the Kalamata Hummus Trail Wrap recipe from Scott Jurek’s Eat and Run book. I added some extra veggies and […]
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Its the end of the week and I need to make room for the provisions I’m planning to pick up at the farmer’s market this weekend. I pulled out all the veggies I had in the fridge and threw together this soup which will feed me and David for the next few days. You can […]
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I made this salad this weekend for David, Ashleigh and Thibault and it knocked all of our socks off! Really it blew us away. It was different and fresh. The cumin dressing was really tasty and it inspired me to start making more of my own dressings! Heidi Swanson works some real magic on 101 […]
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My very favorite soup recipe was given to me by my very good friend Pao. I call it Pao’s Perpetual Soup because is it so good that it will last generations. I actually picture myself as an old woman making this soup for my grandchildren. As I ladle the soup into their bowls I tell […]
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This is another one of my go to salads. I am filling up on its deliciousness as I write this post. In each bite the crunch of the pepper and cabbage is followed by creamy notes of avocado and cannellini bean. A salty, olive-y punch concludes the perfect bite. Easy, delicious and healthy. I hope […]
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Shakespeare coined the term “Salad Days” meaning “a time of youthful inexperience” in 1606. It was my youthful inexperience, which is perhaps better characterized as utter ignorance in the kitchen that was the catalyst for what has become an obsession with chopped salads. When I first started feeling my way around the kitchen I had no sense […]
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