Oyster Mushroom Risotto Spring has finally arrived here and the weather is dry and getting warmer, I wanted to make a winter style risotto ...

I had this style of pizza at Cucina restaurant & Wine bar in San Anselmo, California and it was so good that I had to recreate it at ho...

While I was making chicken tamales the other day, I had the idea to make a very small one to serve as maybe a first course, I discovered mi...

Assembling the Tamale Steaming Tamales Chicken Tamale with Green Salsa My kids gave me the idea of making tamales and it was a great idea, ...

While putting in a full day of sailing around San Francisco bay, you can get pretty hungry. With a propane gas grill mounted on the back of ...

Its not often that you will find "fresh head" on prawns, most seafood that is sold has been cleaned with there heads removed. I li...

I made a little snack of roasted Yukon gold potatoes with a filled of garlic sauteed mushrooms. I served them on a bed of hot rock salt, the...

One of the best things about buying beets is getting the leaves to use in other recipes. Last nights beet salad gives me a ingredient for to...

I made a simple salad using thinly shaved fennel and beets that were cooked and tossed in to a simple vinaigrette. The fennel was sliced ver...

One day I am cooking Latin and the next day its Asian, that's part of whats fun in cooking. Tonight I made a dish inspired by the cooki...

Baja Fish Taco Tomatillo Salsa Cabbage & Lime Slaw A favorite food that I eat often are Baja style fish tacos. The Baja influence is t...

There is a common technique of cooking meats in most restaurants, you first sear your fish or meat in a hot saute pan, then put the pan in a...

I have reached two hundred posts on this blog, it is a lot of fun to write about the foods I discover and eat. I have been keeping track of ...

I got the urge for warm weather fruit in the middle of winter. I have tried star fruits a long time ago and decided to buy some again to sh...

Crepes are no longer difficult to make now that we have non stick pans, its really easy to make paper thin crepes that will slide right out ...