On the day that one of my friends was hosting a Sunday brunch I got up at six a.m. hoping that the early start would provide ample time to scour the web for inspiration and ideas for a recipe, bake and be out the door by 10 a.m. It had been a busy five days leading to the girlfriend-gathering this ... Read More
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Asparagus Potato Puff Pastry Tart
I'm tempted to just leave this here and make a hasty retreat into the shadows. I've been hanging on to this recipe for a week, initially excited about sharing it. Then I looked at these pictures and noticed how stingy I was with the asparagus and I just groaned in disappointment (it wasn't ... Read More
Roasted Eggplant and Tomato Dip
When I took my first bite of the bread dipped in the warm, red sauce my first thought was that the portion served in the tiny condiment bowl would nowhere near be enough. The next thought was yay for my husband holding back on the pre-dinner bread so there would be more for me. The dip ... Read More
Chocolate Hazelnut Cake (Torta di Nocciole)
My husband and I stole away to Scottsdale last week. We rendezvoused with our dear friends from Chicago for some much-awaited catch-up time and managed to escape the weeklong downpour here in the Bay Area as a bonus. After what has felt like an exceptionally long winter lighter attire and sandals ... Read More
Gouda-Dill Gougères with Smoked Salmon
One would think that a teeny tiny patch of daffodils in a sea of towering oaks and showy succulents would be lost in my garden but this is not the case at all. Right about the time I start feeling like winter has overstayed its welcome those daffodils spring up, each year an unbroken promise of ... Read More
Filipino Pancit Canton (and How to Velvet Chicken)
Recalling a lunch room conversation with an office mate nearly twenty five years ago I'm reminded of how desperately ignorant I was about cooking then. I was in my first real job out of college, still living at home enjoying my mother's cooking. It would be another year or two before I leave the ... Read More
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