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…
I am not generally a breakfast eater. Sure, I’m a morning person, but for some reason the first few hours of my consciousness are not focused on food (unless caffeine is a food, *ahem*). And while studies show that a good breakfast causes us to be more productive, more pleasant, and generally more healthy 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…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baldmonk/2302950648/ I’m famous for my Lemon Meringue Pies, but I keep the recipe a closely guarded secret – my husband doesn’t even know it. However, this Lemon Souffle recipe is a variant of the pie recipe, but without a few important ingredients and steps. The key to a fantastic lemon dessert is to use Eureka…
I recently learned how to make flour tortillas from scratch. They are SO incredibly simple I’m amazed more people don’t make them from scratch. Honestly, it’s easier and faster to make them at home than to run to the store to buy them. And they taste SO much better. Not to mention you have better…
This is our fourth year growing corn. Our first year we grew the standard sweet hybrid corn. It did pretty good. The second year we decided to go with heirloom “dual purpose” corn. When young, it could be eaten right off the cob and when it was mature it was a flour corn. We ended…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
