Author: Annelies

Homemade Tortilla Chips- Baked & Fried Variations

Who doesn’t like tortilla chips? Okay, maybe people who are allergic to corn or just avoiding it. In our household pantry, they are a staple. In our refrigerator, you can always find tortillas. Recently, Nathan stocked up on some from Chavez in the East Bay. The tortilla chip is humble and yet crunches and crackles… Continue reading Homemade Tortilla Chips- Baked & Fried Variations

Kale Caesar Salad

Watching the TV show Modern Family this week, I chuckled as one of the characters told his husband, “You’ll never guess what the new Spinach is.” To this, the husband chirped “Radicchio” and was trounced with the response, “No, kale!” They proceeded later in the episode of introducing this leafy green vegetable with the initial… Continue reading Kale Caesar Salad

Jose Maria’s Gallo Pinto

Have you ever stalked an ingredient before? This is what it must feel like to be the hunter: to crane your ear toward the direction of the prey and listen for a rustling- to look with eyes that see beyond the veneer of branches and blades of grass for what moves among that which doesn’t… Continue reading Jose Maria’s Gallo Pinto

Coloring Book: February

My gift to my favorite 2-year old Dadi this year is a coloring book with a page released on the blog each month for his mama to download and print so he can color his way into the things that make up 2011. No one’s looking- you can print it out too even if it’s… Continue reading Coloring Book: February

San Francisco Food Blogger Bake Sale

We want you! Calling all bakers and cookie makers. All closet chefs and pastry chefs too, Volunteers, come bake for a good cause. Some incredible people are coming together and bringing their baking chops for a good cause. Last year, we raised around $1600 for Share our Strength and are enthused for this year’s event.… Continue reading San Francisco Food Blogger Bake Sale

Bookbinding Bender

“We might not be a good match if I write you a poem and you think we’re getting married.” Wearing all the brassiness and bravado I could muster, I retorted, “Well, what if I write you a poem?” Thus began the early workings of a relationship in motion. On our first date, out came a… Continue reading Bookbinding Bender

Spiced Moroccan Chicken

The air was thick and moist. As Raju, our rickshaw driver pedaled onward, the slight breeze felt recompense to the Indian summer. On this day, my translator Vinay was unavailable and my study partner Todd, back at the hotel with digestive distress. Today, my pregnant friend Laura and I arrived by my usual escort the… Continue reading Spiced Moroccan Chicken

Chocolate Almond Cake with Cherry Cream Cheese Frosting

The very thought of Valentine’s Day makes some of you want to gag. I know the stores are bedecked with red and pink streamers and brightly colored foil wrapped chocolates faster than you can say John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt. After Christmas, it’s fair game for a game that does not feel all that fair sometimes.… Continue reading Chocolate Almond Cake with Cherry Cream Cheese Frosting

The Reach of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman

For my birthday this year Nathan spoiled me royally: Not with roses-  not with sparkly trinkets, but with books. A stack’s worth. I salivated over the anticipated titles my eyes skimmed- this was my kind of celebration. The hardest question was which to read first. And so I reached, a few years later for “The… Continue reading The Reach of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman