Bacon and salad are kind of oxymorons, I know. The whole idea of a salad is to be healthy. But hey, everyone needs a little protein and avocados have the good kind of fat, and doesn’t buttermilk have calcium?
Whatever the nutritional facts are, this salad is delicious and filling enough to serve as a meal [...]
If you’ve ever been to the Bay Area, chances are you’ve had something baked by the Bay Bread group. Their range of sweet and savory loaves are scattered throughout San Francisco’s best restaurants and shops, and the Bay Bread group has their own mini-chain of bakery-cafes as well: La Boulange.
My cousin, sister and I shared [...]
I’ve been cooking with dried porcini mushrooms a lot lately. I used them liberally in two Thanksgiving dishes: baked pasta shells with cheese, porcini, pancetta and radicchio; and porcini-potato gratin.
But we’ll get to those later. One of my favorite uses of this super-flavorful mushroom is in a pasta sauce, made even richer with the addition [...]
It can be hard to get enough greens in my diet during the winter, but that doesn’t mean I don’t stop craving them. Endives are in season at this time of year though, and this anchovy and caper dressing stand up perfectly to offset the endives’ mild bitterness.
This easy recipe is adapted from Jamie Oliver’s [...]