Category Archives: Recipes

Sweet & Savory Brown Rice Porridge

May 26, 2016 by AHS

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited out to the Clif Family Winery for a bikeride through Napa valley with a few of their team members, including Clif Family’s fantastic Executive Chef John McConnell. Before the ride, John prepared a wonderful breakfast for our small group including this eye opening brown rice porridge. I was out of my seat after one bite to ask him exactly how it’s made, and he generously shared the many details on how […]

Categories: Breakfasts, Kitchen Tips, Oatmeals & Mueslis • Tags: Brown Rice Porriage, Brown Rice Pudding, Cream of Wheat, Gluten-Free, Gluten-Free Breakfast, Maple Syrup, No Refined Sugar, Oatmeal, Olive Oil, Refined Sugar Free, Rice Pudding, Sunflower Seeds, Sweet & Savory Cream of Wheat

Lemon, Olive Oil & Thyme Muffins

May 24, 2016 by AHS

These easy muffins are a nice departure from the typical sweeter ones I usually make – on the savorier side of the spectrum, but in this case by savory I mean a bit tangy, thanks to the lemon. The cornmeal adds a sturdy bite and the olive oil just enough richness. Be careful about the yogurt selection, as it can swing these into the too-tangy category! ‘Traditional’ (e.g. not Greek) plain yogurt does the trick. Kefir et al is little […]

Categories: Baked, Breakfasts, Muffins & Quickbreads, Recipes • Tags: Breakfast Corn Muffins, Breakfast Muffins, Corn Muffin Recipe, Healthy Lemon Muffins, Healthy Olive Oil Muffins, Lemon Corn Muffins, Lemon Muffin Recipe, Lemon Olive Oil Muffin Recipe, Lemon Yogurt Muffins, Olive Oil Muffin Recipe, Tuscan Inspired Muffins

Homemade Snickers Bars

May 17, 2016 by AHS

Working on a myriad of projects over the early Sping has pulled me away from sharing here for too long! Exciting, worthwhile efforts though, and more on those shortly. For now I’m glad to be back, and can’t think of a better point of re-entry than these homemade Snickers bars. In thinking over what to write about them am compelled to loosely quote the late, great Price, who often said he’d prefer to talk less and simply let his music […]

Categories: Desserts, Recipes, Snacks • Tags: Dates, Homemade Snickers, Maple Syrup, Metric Conversion, Metric Conversion for Raw Vegan Snickers Bars, No Refined Sugar, No-Bake Bars, Raw Snickers, Raw Vegan Snickers, Refined Sugar Free, Vegan Snickers

Aromatics-Stuffed Artichokes

March 17, 2016 by AHS

With artichoke season here and the delicious if at times intimidating vegetable widely available, I wanted to share a recipe for stuffed artichokes I picked up a few weeks ago from one of the incredibly knowledgeable staff members at the Bi-Rite grocery store on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. He not only shared his Mom’s heritage family recipe, but also several prepping and general handling tips, which I’ve been surprised to learn are sorely needed even by some of the […]

Categories: Apps, Kitchen Tips, Recipes, Sides, Snacks • Tags: Artichoke Recipe, Artichokes, BreadCrumbs, Cooking with Artichokes, Garlic, How-To Artichokes, Meyer Lemon, Preparing Artichokes, Prepping Artichokes, Steamed Artichokes, Stuffed Artichokes, Trimming Artichokes

Kumquat and Greek Yogurt Tart

February 29, 2016 by AHS

Here’s a trick I thought of tangentially, when trying to come up with a good use for Kumquats – using Greek yogurt in place of custard in a tart. I’d been turning Kumquats over and over in my mind, wondering what to do with them. I’ve just learned that you can eat the skin and all of Kumquats, and they give a kick that leaves you satiated from both a sweet and sour perspective. Because they are pretty strong, just […]

Categories: Desserts, Recipes • Tags: Candied Orange, Citrus, Citrus Season, Citrus Tart, Dessert Makeover, Greek Yogurt, Kumquat, Kumquat and Pistachio Tart, Make Ahead, Pastry, Tarts

Mediterranean Fish Tacos

February 14, 2016 by AHS

We have been making these particular fish tacos during citrus season for the past several years. With all the citrus, especially Meyer lemons, in the house at the moment we’re enjoying them a bit more than usual, and for that reason (so I can look up the recipe conveniently here) combined with the desire to pay tribe to their provenance, I am sharing them here. I first came across this recipe on Food52.com, and it is by a woman named […]

Categories: Dinner, Proteins, Recipes • Tags: Fish Tacos, Make Ahead, Mediterranean, Mediterranean Inspired, Meyer Lemon, Meyer Lemon Salsa, Olive Salsa, Taco Dinner, Tacos

Lemon & Rosemary Scones

February 14, 2016 by AHS

Re the visit out to Sonoma County last weekend, from which I admittedly returned with more lemons than may be able to use (unless you count freezing the juice): there was a component that we talked up for the whole week leading up to the trip and then entirely dismissed, and that is the impressive range of baked goods, particularly scones, that we have come across out in said country. Grounds for dismissal were simply that the lauded bakeries are […]

Categories: Baked, Breakfasts, Muffins & Quickbreads • Tags: Almond Flour Scones, Baking, Buttermilk Scones, Healthy Baking, Healthy Substitutions, Lemon Rosemary Scones, Lemon Scones, Scones, Special Breakfast

Sonoma County Olive Oil & Meyer Lemon Cake

February 10, 2016 by AHS

Over the weekend, we got to go to a ranch in Sonoma County where a long lost family member (my brother-in-law’s step uncle if we’re counting) grows about an acres’s worth of grapes – enough to make several dozen cases of wine per year, with which among other things he brings bountiful country picnics with a tasting of several gold and silver winning varietals to life on a regular basis. When we got there for a late lunch on Saturday, […]

Categories: Baked, Breakfasts, Pies, Gallettes & Tarts, Trips • Tags: Baking With Lemons, Candied Lemons, Cooking with Lemons, Lemons, Meyer Lemon, Meyer Lemon Olive Oil Cake, Olive Oil Cake, Sonoma County, Wine Country

Mushroom Ragu

January 26, 2016 by AHS

I would never go so far as to say that an all-vegetable dish could actually fool a meat-lover, but there are some that I believe would wholly satisfy the most ardent of carnivores, and this is one of the few and far between. That’s not to say other meatless dishes aren’t tasty or satiating, just that this one particularly rich, earthy and satisfying. If he were to come knocking, I would go so far as to serve this Hugh Glass, […]

Categories: Dinner, Pastas • Tags: Dinner, Make Ahead, Meatless Ragu, Mushroom Ragu, Mushroom Ragu Recipe, Mushrooms, Pappardelle, Pasta, Polenta, Ragu, Recipe

Chocolate Cake Recipe Makeover

January 6, 2016 by AHS

Here’s something I learned this past December: in Victorian England, the end of Christmas celebrations actually fell on January 5th, or Twelfth Night, aka the last evening of the Christmas season. The celebration included a very specific cake, called everything from Twelfth Night Cake to Plum Cake. I would love to say that I picked up this bit of info due to a revisiting of Whistler’s works, a favorite artist who worked during the Victorian Era. Alas, the info was […]

Categories: Baked, Desserts, Recipes • Tags: Bundt Cake, Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Cake Makeover, Dessert, Dessert Makeover, Olive Oil Cake, Recipe Makeover, Twelfth Night

Turkey Meatballs with Fresh Oregano and Basil

December 21, 2015 by AHS

If meatballs with tomato sauce aren’t the fun weeknight night answer to 36 hours of chilly and constant rain, I don’t know what is. Not that I’m complaining; aside from how desperately the rainfall is needed here, it’s easily the best cooking weather one can ask for. And while I love a slow-cooked pasta sauce on a wintry day like nobody’s business, it is Monday after all. An aside before the recipe: as ‘Italian’ as this dish looks to me […]

Categories: Dinner, Pastas, Proteins, Recipes • Tags: Basil, Dinner Solution, Fresh Herbs, Healthy Meatballs, Healthy Turkey Meatballs, Make Ahead, Make-Ahead Dinner, Oregano, Quick Dinner, Spaghetti and Meatballs, Tomato Sauce, Turkey Meatballs, Weeknight Dinner, Weeknight Dinner Solution

Recipe Makeover: Skillet Cornbread

December 2, 2015 by AHS

Back in October when we were working on our kitchen project, one of the things I posted about was the backsplash and decision making therein. A detail I didn’t get into at the time is that it is almost always essential to take sample tiles home before committing. As such, tile stores will lend you tiles to take home or sell sample sets. Aforementioned Heath Ceramics sold me three samples each of our two viable color choices, returnable for store […]

Categories: Baked, Muffins & Quickbreads, Recipes • Tags: Cornbread, Healthy Cornbread Recipe, Healthy Holiday Baking, Healthy Makeover, Healthy Recipe, Healthy Skillet Cornbread, Holiday Baking, Recipe Makeover, Skillet Cornbread

Black Bean Butternut Squash Chili

December 1, 2015 by AHS

It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving, and this chili is just what the doctor ordered, in so many ways. This chili is meatless and a welcome dinner after a weekend of unusually heavy eating. Plus, it was prepared over a week ago, portioned out and frozen. Pretty perfect for an evening following a day of catch-up, which post-holiday (/all) Mondays always are. This recipe is Paul’s invention, and is a classic example of the make it on Sunday, eat a serving and […]

Categories: Dinner, Lunch, Proteins, Soups • Tags: Black Bean Chili, Butternut Squash Black Bean Chili, Butternut Squash Chili, Chili, Healthy Chili, Healthy Chili Recipe, Healthy Dinner, Healthy Recipe, Leftovers, Make Ahead, Meatless Chili, Recipe, Vegetarian Chili

Hungry Fan™ Pumpkin Spice Protein Pancakes

November 20, 2015 by AHS

The last time I ordered pancakes, over the summer, I think it had been years since I’d eaten them at all, so decadent and irresponsible they seem. I ordered the stack under premise that I was going to dive in and enjoy them, butter and loads of syrup and all, without looking back. And I did, every bite, without an ounce of guilt. It truly was a treat to indulge, even if the remaining meals that day were small and […]

Categories: Breakfasts, Recipes • Tags: Brunch, Butternut Squash Pancakes, Easy Brunch, Fangating, Healthy Pancake Recipe, Healthy Pancakes, Holiday Cooking, Hungry Fan, Pancakes, Protein Pancakes, Pumpkin, Seasonal Recipe

Intro to Homemade Ravioli

November 19, 2015 by AHS

I love making ravioli. Love it. Namely because, it’s methodic and yields a beautiful result (and is therefore to me, relaxing), it involves time-proven techniques, and, I’ll be honest, it’s gratifying when you set down a restaurant-quality dish, both visually and gastronomically, that you’ve just cranked out yourself. The last part might be the most secretly satisfying because there is a huge secret. It’s really pretty easy to make. Since I love it so, I am hereby starting a small […]

Categories: Pastas, Recipes • Tags: Creative, Entertaining, Food Photography, Fresh Pasta, Holiday Cooking, Make Ahead, Pasta, Photography, Ravioli

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