It is not hard to get your hands on day-old pastries. What’s hard, sometimes, ARE the pastries. But here’s your chance to make them ol’ croissants shine like new! Croissant bread pudding! There’s really not much to it. Which is good, what with how busy I’ve been this week. Fortunately, there’s always room (er, I…
I’m a morning person. Always have been, since I was a little girl. Once the sun was up, so was I – tearing around the house like a maniac (or a herd of elephants, as my parents liked to describe it), and impatiently awaiting… …well, SOMETHING. I was sure something was about to happen. And…
I love desserts. I always have. I love making desserts. Big batches of cookies, galettes, biscotti…you name it. Usually I’m even pretty good at making a big batch of sweets and then feeding them to OTHER people. Big pans of brownies? No problem: take ’em to the office, or send them off with the boyfriend…
You know you want them. Look at them. They’re perfect, right? Right. Oh man, if you could smell what the house smells like right now…well, actually, it’s probably better that you can’t (I hear drool is really bad for the keyboard). But let me just say that there are few smells in the world that…
I love to barbeque – there’s just something about cooking outside that really feels like summer. Especially when we’re grilling our own home-grown veggies and organic meats. My boyfriend and I buy 1/4 of a free-range grass-fed cow every year from a local farm. We keep the cuts of meat in a freezer in the…
I used to be a picky eater. On my list of foods that were gross? Tomatoes, mushrooms, mustard, pickles (or anything with dill in it), dark leafy greens (especially mustard greens and kale), stinky cheeses, and any kind of olive. Wouldn’t touch ‘em. Which, as you might imagine, meant there were a LOT of types…
Last weekend Rick and I took a trip up to Tomales Bay to check out some land belonging to a client of his. She informed Rick that while we were in town, we MUST stop at the Tomales Bakery (sorry for the facebook link, but they don’t have a web presence of their own) and…
It’s that time again. The time of year when the CSA starts sending more than just greens, greens, greens…and maybe some citrus. The time when I find myself running out into the garden every couple of hours to see if anything’s grown while I was away…and it actually HAS grown. I feel myself breaking out…
Bread: the Staff of Life. Bread is the foundation upon which we build our meals (or at least our sandwiches), but a loaf of bread really oughtn’t resemble a building supply. Unfortunately, that’s how most of the bread I’ve attempted to make has come out: hard, tasteless lumps of brick which were more appropriate for…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
