My guilty pleasure during the time of COVID has been Sunday morning outings to our local farmer’s market. A chance to get out of the house and meet a friend. Not to worry we are adhering to the CDC guidelines for masks, distance, and handwashing. For the most part fellow shoppers at the market are …
‘My fondest memories of traveling abroad, not surprisingly, revolve around food. It started when my parents sent me on a summer exchange program in Taiwan for Chinese American college kids. While our parents envisioned us hard at work learning Mandarin and Chinese culture, we were sneaking out to the night markets to eat, hooking up …
Yes. In the Time of COVID, where the staple shelves at the supermarket look like a scene out of Mad Max, I still have flour and yeast. Now don’t get your Hot Crossed Buns in a bunch, in all fairness, I normally have lots of flour and yeast on hand. I love to bake. Although, …
Yes, I tried yet another banana bread recipe. Unlike biscuits, I am not in search of the best banana bread in the universe. I LIKE the recipe I have for banana bread. AND yet, like Pavlov’s Dogs, I see a banana bread recipe and I get an overwhelming urge to try it. Go figure. Such …
In the time of COVID-19 seems like we are all craving comfort food. I find myself yearning for dishes like soups, stews, foods from my childhood, and all things carb seems to be my mantra. Apparently, I’m not the only one, bread baking has become a national pastime making it really difficult to find flour …
I am always looking for gluten free desserts and Vegan treats for my friends. This is a cataclysmic mind-shift for a person who has always been in the “All butter, Cream-filled, No holds Barred, Is there another flour besides AP wheat” camp. Years ago we headed to a regatta in Sac. During a break in …
I bought WAY TOO many bananas on my COVID reconnaissance to the grocery store last week. Luckily, too many bananas is a happy problem. Eat em’, freeze em’, bake em’ in a cake. Banana Bread was out. I had just baked a loaf of banana bread from Shauna Severs’ latest book, Midwest Made. These overripe …
Shhhh…please don’t tell Chef H I messed up his cornbread recipe. I’m not sure what I did wrong but I’m way too embarrassed to ask him so I went hunting for another cornbread recipe. I’m a Californian, I’m pretty wimpy when it comes to cornbread. True cornbread is NOT cake-y and sweet, too bad that’s …
Growing up in Chinatown I took for granted that everyone had access to fresh vegetables, fish, poultry and meat. If only I had an iPhone back in the day to capture the pictures of daily life in my Chinatown. I’d have pictures of crates filled with live chickens sitting on the sidewalk, tanks filled with …