I just got a craving for a spicy vegetable curry and had most ingredients on hand so into the pot it went. I used a mixture of diced yellow ...

With all the pizza I am now making with my new oven stone, I seem to always have extra bread dough.I sometimes use it to make these nice cri...

Caponata is a Sicilian relish or side dish, it is eggplant with maybe olives, capers, garlic. Strong flavors that I like, I roasted thick eg...

Here's a nice salad for this winter season. Its composed salad of roasted bosc pears, toasted walnuts, Sonoma county blue cheese and cri...

It seems like we always get a big storm around the new year. Only three days into 2008 and we get slammed with a hurricane force storm, up t...

There is a tradition at my brothers house of serving lemon drop cocktails for any reason, I am sure that he being a liqueur distributor and ...

The idea for doing this blog is my answer to writing a book without dealing with publishing companies, also there is not a clear format to t...

Posole soup is a Christmas tradition in Mexico and its becoming one here too, at least at my house. Its a soup of pork or chicken with the a...

Here is some recent shots taken from a fish market on Clement Street in San Francisco. Clement Street is a long street on the Western side ...

Its the holiday season and everyone is eating a lot of unhealthy foods. Here is a good winter soup that is made for cooking in big batches a...

I have been really into making breads and pizza's lately but what I have been lacking is a oven stone to devolp a crispy crust. With a b...

Next to making pasta with what ever you can find in your house, a basic risotto is easy. It can be flavored with anything you have on hand....

Some people like the smell of fresh baked cookies, but I love the smell of bread right out of the oven. I always keep a supply of good quali...

Its rare when I look in the meat case for a dinner idea, normally its some kind of fish or shellfish. There was some nice thick pork chops ...

So you have two chefs making Thanksgiving dinner for themselves and its lunch time, what do you make to go along with the beers? Pizza of c...