There are a million variations on the endive and blue cheese fall salad theme, but this one is by far my favorite. I’m not crazy about blue cheese, so when I do add it to recipes, I try to balance it out with sweet and bitter flavors to counter the cheese’s pungency. That works perfectly [...]
I am a terrible baker. There, I said it. I see recipes for bread and cakes and cookies that I’d love to try all the time, but I generally steer clear because more often than not, my “bread” comes out resembling cardboard and my “cookies” end up as hard as a tack. Take cornbread, for [...]
I have to be honest with you here: I used to really dislike cranberry sauce. Like yams with marshmallows, it was one of the few hallmarks of Thanksgiving that I never came to fully embrace. It probably didn’t help that the only cranberry sauce I’d ever tried was a gelatinous mass out of a can. [...]
If you shop at Trader Joe’s, you probably already know that one of their most (if not the most) popular breads is their cheddar and garlic sourdough bread. I’ve been buying it regularly for several years now, and I’m always looking for new sandwich fillings to keep things interesting. I ended up using my last [...]
Last year’s reopening of the California Academy of Sciences opened up with much fanfare, and for a while all San Francisco could talk about was the new space’s environmental design. I had visited the museum in 2006 at its temporary location on Howard Street during the primary building’s renovation, and had been a little disappointed. [...]