Back home in SF. Perusing Instagram when I came across one of my camping photos featured on Williams Sonoma Instagram feed. Yay! There's a phone screen shot below or you can see it here.
Monday, June 23, 2014
Sunday, June 22, 2014
camping and wine tasting in Sonoma
Wine tasting at Banshee Wines in Healdsburg after cooling off with a shrub at The Shed. We grabbed a late lunch at Bravas and then paella for dinner at Vineyards Inn just a skip and a jump from our camping spot at Sugarloaf Ridge. I brought along fresh veggies from Happy Boy Farms, including these tiny tender potatoes. Bacon crisped up just fine on the camp stove and rendered more than enoug fat to cook the zuchini, tomatoes, and slices of polenta.
Summer is officially here and there are so many good things in the works.
I went on a midweek camping trip at Sugarloaf near the Sonoma and Napa border. After wine tasting and then breakfast of farmers market bounty al fresco after sleeping under a blanket of stars I am thrilled for all the adventures that await. My website is being reworked now so I'll focus on a blog update over the next few days.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
cooking challenge for the birds
It was time to cook a turkey... or start small(er) with a heritage turkey breast. I salt cured over in the fridge for a full 24 hours and instead of regular salt I opted for lemon salt, chopped preserved lemons, (pictured below, cut in half or quartered and packed into a jar with salt while squishing them a bit to release their juice to immerse the lemon pieces and left to sit) and cedar greenery that was pulsed in a coffee grinder. All of these fragrant ingredients perfumed the room and eased the stress level that often comes with cooking a bird. After patting the turkey after the salt brine did started it's job of keeping the outside of the turkey moist I added more cedar (like rosemary) and nestled the meat atop a pile of organic carrots, onions, and tender young potatoes to roast away. I sipped on a green juice before starting the dough for biscuits.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
afternoon baking
Sometimes I get carried away and want to bring along a little extra to a dinner and end up making a few doughs in one afternoon and then we're all enjoying pie, biscuits, and a tart. I love this buttermilk biscuit recipe from Smitten Kitchen and this tart recipe.
maple bacon magic at the market
I always feel great stocking up on organic produce at while supporting the local organic farmers at the market. There's always a fair amount of delicious food cooking along the edge of the market with smells wafting through the air and this time I couldn't pass up the maple bacon breakfast sausage egg sandwich at 4505 Meats. Just typing maple bacon has me salivating a little.
crab for dinner
Cracking Dungeness crab for dinner and watching the sunset. This was picked up at a local store, but the plan is to head out to the water with crab nets in tow and catch our own next time.
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