What’s your favorite poke (poe-kay)?
Our Wine of the Week, Russian River Valley Rosé of Pinot Noir, is delicious with poke, a simple Hawaiian dish that is very easy to make at him. Here are some of my favorite versions. Please share yours.
What’s Your Favorite Mustard?
When mustard flowers blanket the fields and meadows of northern California, it is impossible not to think of mustard, one of the world's most popular condiments. Share your favorites here, where you will find delicious spring recipes from the Seasonal Pantry archives.
Cooking with Preserved Lemons 1, by request
A reader asks for recipes using preserved lemons. Eat This Now answers, with the first of two posts.
Apple Juice & Black Pepper Sauce for Foie Gras & Chicken
A sauce of apple juice, apple cider vinegar, black pepper and butter is delicious on both seared foie gras and roasted chicken. And what's just as good or even better is that it takes just minutes to make.
Fresh Local Chestnuts, if you hurry
Chestnuts from a small farm on Fort Ross Road will be at the Santa Rosa farmers market on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.
Time To Feel (and Drink) French
Beaujolais Nouveau is released around the world on the third Thursday of November. Host a fete at home using recipes from Seasonal Pantry and consider the world's newest wine for Thanksgiving.
Drink This Now: It’s International Champagne Day!
Raise a glass to one of the purest pleasures humans have come up with, Champagne.
A perfect mushroom for wine country: Wine Cap
I spotted these mushrooms at the Crescent Moon Farm stall at the Sebastopol farmers market a couple of weeks ago. They caught my eye in part because I'd never seen them before. Farmer Jill Adams explained that they are called Wine Cap, a nod to the color of [...]
For a BLT, bacon’s gotta have snap.
For a sensational BLT, you must cook the bacon all the way to crisp, so it has that magical snap.
Joe Matos St. George Cheese at a great price
If you've seen St. George cheese in your local market for $15.95. $16.95 or $19.95 a pound, three prices I've seen lately, here's a hot little tip. If you buy it at the farm, it's $7 a pound, no matter what amount you purchase. You can buy a wedge, a [...]
