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Cooking Fava Beans in a Flash

April 19, 2010
Fava Bean Recipe

Fava Bean Recipe: The quickest, easiest way to cook garlicky, salty, smoky fava beans without using your backyard grill.

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Artichoke and Orange Galette for Jamie Oliver

March 18, 2010
Artichoke and Orange Galette

Dear Jamie Oliver, If you were to come over for dinner, I’d bake you an artichoke and orange galette. I may also cook this for you. Or this, or maybe this. But we’d start with a buttery, rich galette stuffed with the season’s finest flavors – artichoke, citrus, green garlic and walnuts. It’s rich and [...]

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Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits with Smoky Sweet Butter

March 14, 2010
homemade buttermilk biscuits

Learn how to make flaky buttermilk biscuits from scratch – thanks to baker, lawyer, chef and co-owner of Little Mac, Erin Wade.

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Bottarga Bread Salad for my Birthday

March 8, 2010
Bottarga Bread Salad

A crunchy sweet batard, torn, toasted and tossed with olive oil, pan-roasted butter beans, thinly sliced celery and spicy arugula. Topped with caper vinaigrette and dusted with briny bottarga.

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Duck fat roasted brussels sprouts

Duck Fat Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Almonds and Cranberries

November 13, 2009

Your Thanksgiving Table: Brussels sprouts roasted in rich duck fat, tossed with almonds, pecans and sweet cranberries.

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Caramelized Tomato Tarte Tatin

August 17, 2009
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Recipe for tomato tarte tatin: Organic grape tomatoes, salty olives and caramelized onions resting in a butter puff pastry crust.

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Crostini with Fava Beans, Roasted Garlic Creme Fraiche and Mushroom Oil

August 11, 2009
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Fava Beans and Café Dreams: Cloudless skies and sun-ripened fruit were not our only motivations for moving to Berkeley. Topping our list was a dream to open a little café, where I would cook simple, beautiful food and Alejandro would woo the guests with his charming ways. We’d have a garden out back, a patio [...]

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Pimientos de Padrón and Life Decisions

July 29, 2009
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These past few weeks have been uncharacteristically tumultuous. Trying to define the success of my blog, dealing with a day job, letting go of my New York frame of mind and attempting to embrace life in California – these all weighed heavily on my shoulders. Funny how a phone call from a missed friend can [...]

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