The Season’s Sweetest Open House, Saturday & Sunday
The season's sweetest open house takes place this Saturday and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days, when Patisserie Angelica hosts its annual tasting.
Apricot Shrub & Other Yummy Recipes for Summer’s Most Fleeting Fruit
2015: In today's Seasonal Pantry, I explore shrubs, an increasingly popular category of beverage with history that extends back to pioneer days. You can read that column here. In today's Seasonal Pantry, which you can read here, I talk about apricots, with recipes for Chicken Kababs with Onions, Bacon, [...]
UPDATE: Your favorite Gravenstein Recipes?
This year our beloved Gravenstein apple came on strong and fast. The crop is down because of warm weather in January, early drought and then rain right during bloom. If you love Gravensteins, don't miss this weekend's Gravenstein Apple Fair.
Granita & More Delicious Recipes with Blueberries
Blueberry season is in full swing in Sonoma County now. After you've eaten your fill of them neat, here are a few of my favorite ways to enjoy them.
More Superbowl Foods, Part 1
Today, my feature on Superbowl Bites, which you can read here, includes a promise of more recipes perfect for your big game party. This is the second of three posts that fulfill the promise. The first post is here, with recipes for a delicious Persian dip and a hand-chopped tapenade. [...]
Last-Minute Thanksgiving Inspiration, with Recipes from the Seasonal Pantry Archives
I confess that I am not particularly attached to the traditional Thanksgiving meal, though I do appreciate--and often honor--what my friend James has to say on the subject. "It doesn't matter how good the food is," he says, "it's the ritual, it's that we are all eating the [...]
Fresh From Our Farmers: Petaluma Saturday Market Opens For Its 26th Season
The Petaluma Farmers Market, located in Walnut Park a few blocks south of downtown, opens for its 26th season this Saturday, May 19. There will be about 50 vendors, most of them returning, a few new. Many of the vendors attend several markets a week. Among them are Hector Alvarez, [...]
Fresh From Our Farmers: Sebastopol Expands for the Season
Until this year, the opening of the Sebastopol Farmers Market on the first Sunday in April heralded the start of the season. Now that the market operates year round, spring comes more quietly to west county. On April 1, the Sebastopol market quietly expanded into the town plaza, [...]
My Cannoli Recipe, plus other yummy ways to use local ricotta
As promised in today's Seasonal Pantry, "Ricotta and Other Tastes of Sicily," here's my recipe for cannoli. When I first wrote about cannoli in a column, there was no great local ricotta. Now we have Bellwether Farms sheep milk ricotta, the best I've had this side of Sicily. If making [...]
Fresh From Our Farmers: Sebastopol in late November
To my thinking, if farmers show up at the market in the rain, the least I can do is the same. But at the Sebastopol farmers market on Sunday, neither vendors nor shoppers seemed deterred by the weather.
