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. [...]
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. [...]
I don’t know what it is about Asian restaurants in strip malls. I can’t resist their pull, especially when the cuisine is one less commonly found. Such is the case with VH Noodle House, which I tried out a few months ago at the Pacific East Mall in Richmond. The restaurant’s tiny and florescently-lit space [...]