A couple of months ago, I dined at one of my favorite SF restaurants – SPQR – and enjoyed a lovely appetizer of meatballs served with a chunky tomato sauce and melt-in-your-mouth borlotti beans. The dish offered an interesting mix of flavors and textures, and after thinking about it for a few weeks I decided [...]
Archive of posts filed under the Dinner category.
Got Your Goat
I haven’t been myself lately. Work has been busy, I’ve been traveling (with more travel scheduled for next week), and I’m a bit out of sorts. I like my usual routine of cooking dinner each night. I like dining out, too, but I’ve been eating too many meals on the run, which makes me feel [...]
Hill of Beans
Before we talk food, let’s talk TV. It’s probably not a surprise that I love Top Chef. Reality TV = stinky, but reality TV + food + Tom Colicchio (ahem!!) = fabulous. In last week’s episode, something other than the food caught my attention. They mentioned a new web site called cookstr.com, which allows you [...]
Love/Hate
What you see above is a thing of beauty. Fresh tomatoes, teeny and perfect. Don’t you just love their wee little stems? I do. My husband does not. He has a self-professed love/hate relationship with tomatoes…loves tomato products (i.e. salsa, ketchup, marinara sauce), hates any tomato that’s anywhere close to raw. I try to meet [...]
