Below is a complete list of my work with the Menlo Park Almanac, Mountain View Voice and Palo Alto Weekly (Embarcadero Media)
Month: March 2016
Kitchen basics – how to roast garlic
I live about 30 minutes north from the garlic capital: Gilroy, California. Each year on (what seems to be) the hottest weekend of the summer, people make the trek to Gilroy to enjoy all things garlic.
I can’t wait until summer. I love garlic on just about anything.
Perfectly roasted garlic is soft, sweet, nutty, caramely and encompasses everything we love about garlic, without the sharp burning after taste. It’s easy to create a jar of roasted garlic cloves at home. Let me show you.
English meets French – cassoulet inspired white bean stew on toast
To some Americans, this might sound like an unlikely combination.
Many English folk are fond of this snack, generally served using Heinz baked beans on white bread.
Before you raise an eyebrow-let me tell you why this combination rocks.
Chocolate chip cookies for two
I fully realize that I have been completely lazy about this whole keeping-up-with-my-blog thing. I am back to tell you about one of my favorite things: giant cookies!
*cue Buddy from Elf voice* I LOVE FAVORITE THINGS!
I have been completely obsessed with this Budget Bytes recipe for snickerdoodles for two, which yields two cafe-style (meaning, HUGE 4 inch diameter) soft cookies.
I am not sure I have ever met a cookie I didn’t like. The snickerdoodles wound up costing 42 cents per cookie, which makes it really hard for me to justify buying cookies for myself at any bakery or cafe ever again.
I thought…maybe I could riff on this recipe and create a chocolate chip cookie dough recipe for two. I tried it, and it definitely hits the spot when I need to exercise just a bit of self-control.
