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Eating Your Whey
I enjoyed my first taste of fresh ricotta at ForageSF‘s Underground Market, a venue where you can taste and purchase the food that is being produced in backyards and home kitchens in the Bay Area. Flosa Creamery, run by former Alembic … Continue reading
Posted in Food Tasting
Tagged Alembic, Curd, Pecorino Romano, Point Reyes, Ricotta, san francisco, Whey
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A Visit to Cowgirl Creamery Cantina @ Point Reyes Station
Cowgirl Creamery Cantina in Point Reyes is a pleasant surprise. It combines a cheese, bread, deli, and wine shop while allowing you to peak through a glassed-in viewing window and watch as they make cheese. We watched Red Hawk being made, … Continue reading
Posted in Restaurant Visits
Tagged Bay Bridge, Cheese, Cowgirl Creamery, Inverness, milk, Point Reyes, Red Hawk (cheese), san francisco
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It’s Crab Season!
Guess what? It’s dungeness crab season! We headed down to Half Moon Bay with the weiner dog with the intent of buying some raw crabs and then heading to a stand where they steam and crack them. Instead we sat … Continue reading
Posted in Food News, Restaurant Visits
Tagged Crab, Dungeness crab, Fish and Seafood, Half Moon Bay California, san francisco
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A Belated Sugar Rush Recap
I eagerly await Sugar Rush, Spark’s annual pastry event, every year ever since I organized it the first year! This year didn’t fail to impress with a lineup of pastry heavyweights. Continue reading
Posted in Food Event
Tagged Coi, Cooking, Ice cream, pastry, Range, san francisco, Spark, Sugar, Sugar Rush
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It’s getting steamy in here
Right as it’s getting hot in San Francisco, I’m the only one insane enough to use her badly insulated oven to bake bread in her south-facing apartment. It’s definitely getting hot in here! A friend asked me about the steam … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking Tips, Food Science, Recipe Testing
Tagged apartment, baguette recipe, baguette recipes, bake, boiling water, Bread, chad robertson, Convection, convection ovens, crispy, delicious bread, Dough, dry yeast, dutch, dutch oven, first five minutes, ingenious method, kitchen convection ovens, one, oven, ovens, pain, pastry, post, professional baker, pyrex dish, Recipe, role, san francisco, steamy, water, yeast
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Flaky Doughs from Around the World! — Part One : Southeast Asia
I’m often asked how to handle phyllo, puff pastry, and croissants and decided to investigate and experiment with layered doughs from around the world. Part one starts with Roti Pratha or Roti Canai. Whatever you call it, it’s a delicious … Continue reading → Continue reading
Posted in Recipe Testing
Tagged blog, coconut, croissants, Dough, Doughs, experiment, Flaky, Limetree, oil, olive oil, one, Part, phyllo, Pratha, puff pastry, purpose flour, roti canai, roti paratha, roti pratha, san francisco, southeast asia, Sunset, sunset district, techinque, technique, thick layers, World
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