I love it when I find forgotten treasures in my refrigerator.
Well, not necessarily forgotten; just sort of… misplaced in my head. I was pretty sure I’d purchased kale recently and almost twice as sure that I had eaten it because…
They tell me its spring somewhere. I believe them, whoever “They” may be, because I’m seeing plenty of great spring produce cropping up everywhere. But right now there’s a pretty nasty storm pounding the Cap City, so today I’m hunkered down with some…
On my last trip to the farmer’s market, I splurged on a pound of ground beef from Lucky Dog Ranch, a local meat supplier that sells grass-fed, sustainable meats here in the greater Sacramento valley. As I’d mentioned in
I should probably call this post “The Little Recipe That Could”. It’s a story about an old recipe of mine that has gone through so much just to get here, that I can’t help but hold it near and dear to my heart as one of my favorites.
My original…
Though I’ve always made it a point to eat healthfully for most of my life, I’ve noticed I’ve had to step that up a notch or two over the past twelve months. Having PHN and everything that goes along with it pretty much requires me to get as much nutrition…
When I stop to think about some of my favorite foods from around the world, I realize that a lot of them are actually quite simple. Soups of almost any variety, rice dishes like jambalaya and paella, “pocket” food like empanadas,
Approximately 150 years ago, when I was still going to UC Davis, I worked as a mental health counselor at a crisis house. As you can imagine, such a job is very emotionally taxing, so we counselors hung out outside of work quite a bit, to decompress…
