Newly Harvested and Ready to Ship.
Finally. Two old favorites reappear. Borlotti and Good Mother Stallard are ready to ship from our warehouse to you. It's been a long, long time. For the time being, they...
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Cooking With Clay No. 9 Revisited
I ended up making a wonderful soup from Gary and Lucy Malouf's Turquoise. Swiss chard soup with chickpeas and barley. The lemon squeeze and Greek yoghurt dollop at the end...
My Nopal Runneth Over
A little love, a little sun, a little water and next thing you know you have a prickly pear cactus that's so heavy with fruit, the paddles start breaking. Rather...
Dinner Party Inspired by Frida and Diego
This is an "encore presentation" of one of my first posts from 2006. I think I had six readers a week back then so I thought it would be fun...
Cooking With Clay No.9
Thanks to a hot tip from Paula Wolfert's Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking book, I ordered this handsome clay pot and lid from Turkey. It's very crude and very heavy and...
Great Clay Pots via the Web
I've talked about Bram before and now it's your turn to see what all the excitement is about. I'm lucky enough to live 25 minutes away from the square in...
Bean and Wine Pairing at Cakebread Cellars
Longtime readers know I'm lucky enough to participate in Cakebread Cellars' American Harvest Workshop every fall. The seminal vintner gathers chefs from around the country and introduces them to local...
Harvesting Beans
It's all coming down to the harvest. You plan, you plant, you pray. And now the moment of truth. Things are looking very good. This afternoon we harvested a new...
Meditteranean Clay Pot Cooking Follow Up
I started with the fish tagine. The dish is very slow cooked and when finished, browned under the broiler. Reduced sauce is added and the eater hits "high C" after...
Paula Wolfert's Mediterranean Clay Pot Cooking
I can't think of a book I've anticipated more. Paula Wolfert has inspired more of us than she knows with her seminal books like Couscous and Other Good Food from...
Popcorn and Chick Peas
I can officially announce that we have garbanzos and popcorn back in stock. The popcorn will last a good long while but we grow a very limited amount of garbanzos...
Diana Kennedy: A Vintage Look Back
I have a paperback version of Diana Kennedy's Mexican Regional Cooking, which was first released as Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico. I believe the best of the book...