I will preface this by saying that I am not a hunter. Maybe someday in the future I will learn to be more comfortable with guns, but it hasn’t happened yet (right now it makes me uncomfortable to even handle them when they are not loaded). I’m not even an expert in hunting-and-meat theory: if…
I have never made chili. Well, I take that back. I have -now-. But before last week, I had never made chili. I’d eaten a lot of chili, sure – who hasn’t? And every time I tasted a chili that I particularly liked, I’d ask the person who made it what makes their recipe special….
It occurred to me recently that though I am an omnivore and am very proud of my choices regarding where the meat we have in the house comes from, I very rarely post recipes that involve it. Perhaps this is because I’m a bit of a purist: most of the meat we eat is consumed…
For the past four weekends, I have been working the Charles Dickens Christmas Fair at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. It is a beautiful reenactment of Victorian London at Christmas time, and a wonderful way to celebrate the holiday season. It’s great fun. It is also at times stressful, dramatic, and completely exhausting, like…
Someday, I would like to leave the city. Move out to a little house on some great land, settle down, and get a farm going. I’d like to end up somewhere with some life to it; some history and some wilderness and some magic. Such a place is Preston Ranch. Rick and I were invited…
There’s just something about the rain that makes me want soup. Hot, thick, creamy, hearty soup that tastes like fall and comfort food and HOME. …doesn’t hurt if it also tastes like the best part of the forests at this time of year: wild mushrooms! I am NOT going to go into a long diatribe…
Recovering from an injury is tough in a lot of ways. I’ve been playing catch-up all week trying to get things in order that I had to let slide when I was out of commission (pinched nerve under scapula =no mobility in shoulder/back/neck for almost a week = no bueno!) and still trying to be…
There’s nothing so fulfilling and comforting on a cold winter’s day than a steaming bowl of thick, creamy, cheesy soup. While the wind is howling and anyone who’s got two brain cells to knock together has bundled back up in their blankets and put on their bunny slippers, a hot bowl of soup can make…
I suppose I should actually title this post “What to Do with Too Much of a Good Thing”, but I don’t think that’ll fit in the title box. Still, it’s an appropriate title. Zucchini is delicious. It’s one of the first “summer” veggies that come up in our climate (San Francisco/Bay Area), and I’m always…
Yeah, I’m one of those people who likes to talk a lot about my heritage. Why wouldn’t I, since I’m half-Puerto Rican; descended from residents of an island known for its gorgeous women, beautiful palm-speckled coastlines, and delicious food? I’ve only been to Puerto Rico once. I was 11 years old and my father took…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
