kabocha pumpkin in dashi-shoyu sauce

April 20, 2012

I love pumpkin. Lately, I’ve begun to think that I might not be alone, as I’ve been reading Neide Rigo’s blog, come-se, and am thrilled to see that she’s been advocating it too. These are some of my favorite pumpkin recipes that we’ve published thus far: quibebe, risotto, compote, ravioli, bread, gnocci, garden tempeh, snow [...]

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Wine of the Year: 2009 Kosta Browne Sonoma Coast Pinot Noir

April 18, 2012

I’ve been shying away from our “drink me” category for a while. There’s just way too much competition to sustain it. But since it’s not every day that we try a bottle of Wine Spectator’s “wine of the year,” I couldn’t resist. That’s right: wine of the year! Drum roll please… I was delighted when [...]

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Japanese mushroom risotto, or kinoko gohan

April 16, 2012

With this unusually cold and wet spring in San Francisco, I feel like I want to eat hearty, earthy food. Something flavorful that fills you up and makes you happy and satisfied. Something like mushroom risotto. Initially I was going for the Italian approach. The thing with the Italian approach is all that cheese and [...]

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Indian inspired black-eyed pea curry

April 13, 2012

We’re constantly trying to add new legume-inspired recipes to our repertoire. After all, how can one be almost vegetarian without eating beans? I think, perhaps, that we don’t feature black-eyed peas as we should. Recently Steven made a delicious black-eyed peas and polenta dish. Every now and then I make a brown rice and black-eyed [...]

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obscene violence and guilty pleasures: tuning into The Hunger Games

April 12, 2012

I’ve been reluctant to read The Hunger Games. The idea for the series and the movie are so disturbing. Essentially a novel about poor, starving children randomly selected to murder one another for the pleasure of the crowd doesn’t play well with my sensibilities. Give me the squishy romance of Bella and Edward or even [...]

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Clos du Val, Napa Valley

April 11, 2012

We’ve been to Clos du Val in Napa Valley many times over the years and always had fun. Most recently we had a lovely wine tasting and picnic event with some marvelous fellow bloggers from the Bay Area and Sacramento. Actually, Hegui selected this place for our picnic as we have such fond memories. The [...]

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not even inclement weather deterred us from finally meeting last week!

April 9, 2012

It poured rain that Saturday. It was bitterly cold and at times windy, but the bad weather didn’t matter because we were super excited about finally meeting these fine bloggers face-to-face. I discovered Fer’s blog chucrute com salsicha when we first started ours back in 2009. Fer was already a veteran back then. Her wonderful [...]

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springtime garden tempeh with snow and garden peas, Kabocha with quinoa and almond butter sauce

April 6, 2012

This recipe was adapted from the latest issue of Vegetarian Times. I didn’t have most of the veggie ingredients so I made do with what was available at home. It turned out as granola as it can be, of course not in any pejorative way, but simply healthy and delicious. The sauce reminded me of [...]

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a biodynamic vineyard tour of Littorai, Sonoma County

April 4, 2012

We’ve been talking about taking the tour of Littorai for months. Really ever since we went last fall for their members event. Now that we’ve done it, it is funny to think about how naïve I’ve been. For example, I didn’t actually know that Littorai embraced organic and biodynamic practices as part of their wine [...]

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artichoke leek lasagna

April 2, 2012

Is lasagna elegant enough to serve at a dinner party? That is the question that I have been pondering for the past couple weeks. I had invited about six friends over for a Saturday meal, including two, Jocelyn and Devin that we hadn’t seen in months. So I wanted to impress but also not be [...]

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