balsamic vinegar

steamed wild pacific cod with green pea purée and cherry tomato salad

April 4, 2011

I confess I thought we’d eat out much more during our kitchen remodel. It just hasn’t happened, since neither of us could really get into it. Cooking at home is just too fun. As it turns out, the single, plug-in electric burner on the dining room table and the grill on the porch have saved [...]

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black-eyed pea croquettes with tomatillo salsa and spicy tofu cream sauce

March 22, 2011

This recipe was a last-ditch effort to improve my mood after a freezer thawing disaster. We had a large container filled with what I thought were pinto beans. I put them out overnight only to realize in the morning that I was mistaken. The pintos, in fact, were black-eyed peas. Normally that would be fine. [...]

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basic foccacia

March 18, 2011

I tried making foccacia long ago, right as we were starting weirdcombinations. I used a recipe from Saveur magazine, which looked gorgeous on their cover and at my home. Unfortunately, the taste wasn’t quite right. The dough was too heavy and doughy, if you know what I mean. At the time I had intended to [...]

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burrata heirloom tomato sandwiches for a Napa Valley picnic

November 19, 2010

Since we live in San Francisco and adore wine, we often go on day-trips to Napa and Sonoma Counties for wine tasting. It takes about an hour and a half to get there so these wonderful visits turn into whole day affairs. When we first moved to Northern California we never really planned so we’d [...]

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warm radicchio salad with mozzarella, candied walnuts and avocado

September 7, 2010

Steven got me an issue of The Complete Tassajara Cookbook: Recipes, Techniques, and Reflections from the Famed Zen Kitchen by Chef Edward Espe Brown. It has more than 300 vegetarian recipes without a lot of color pictures. I’m still absorbing this book. The same weekend that I started perusing Tassajara, we got a few beautiful [...]

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roasted purple asparagus with semi-dried Roma tomatoes

May 26, 2010

I saw this purple asparagus at TJ’s the other day and I couldn’t resist. It’s so beautiful and fresh, and, well, so purple! I just baked them in the oven with some balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper and tossed a few quartered semi-dried Roma tomatoes I had made earlier. The flavors were amazing! [...]

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oven roasted tomatoes

October 23, 2009

To all you weirdcombos folks out there in Internet-land, news flash: good tasting tomatoes, as well as many other flavorful Summer crops, are beginning to disappear for the season. Time to get shopping! It is going to be a few months before good root veggies get to the farmers markets. Fortunately the tomatoes are still [...]

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