This is one of my absolute favorite vegetable dishes ever — I look forward to making it several times each winter. It’s earthy and flavorful and gets a delicious glazed effect from the butter and chicken stock combining with the natural sweetness of the veggies. It works perfectly well with vegetable stock, too! Like many [...]
Read more →I recently brought this wine to a dinner party and then just sat back and watched as it worked its magic on everyone at the table. Delicate but flavorful, and oh so pretty. Sokol Blosser 2007 Pinot Noir Dundee Hills ($36). Supple and pretty, delicate but with body and complex flavors — raspberry and cherry [...]
Read more →I love Valentine’s Day — relationship or no, I just like the silly, pointless sweetness of it all. And of course, there’s the chocolate. Some years I’m drawn to the latest, coolest, pushing-the-flavor boundaries brands, some years I’m old school. (This year, that plush, cushiony red Godiva heart box has my eye…) But whatever the chocolate [...]
Read more →One of the most memorable highlights of a recent visit to Mendocino was an overnight at Saracina Vineyards. The evening culminated with watching the Perseid meteor showers on a cloudless night — dozens (hundreds?) of streaks of light weaving through brightly twinkling stars, illuminating the kind of inky darkness that’s only possible this far away from city [...]
Read more →I love mustard, so when a jar of this new concoction from New Orlean’s Cochon restaurant and chefs Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski showed up one day, I was eager to give it a test drive. And now I am obsessed with the mellow but flavorful character of this unique mustard — not to mention the tapioca-pearl-like crunch of the [...]
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