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Game Day Jalapeño & Shrimp Poppers
For Game Day I’m not so much a ‘wings’ fan as I am an everything-else-fan. Shrimp stuffed jalapeño poppers included! And yes, I realize that this is the first time in 10 years of writing this blog that...
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Beef Empanadas with Avocado Crema
Beef Empanadas! We love empanadas at Edible After School because they are easy-to-make appetizers for when we cater large parties (up to 300 people!) and they always sell out quickly at the farmer’s...
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Berrylicious Jam Jar Cobblers
Jam jar cobblers are a fun farm-to-table dessert! I make these with Edible After School to sell hot at the Pescadero farmer’s market and I often use this recipe as a sweet-tart country finish for farm...
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Prickly Pear Margaritas!
This just in: prickly pears are PRICKLY!!! Cactus Pear Margarita with rose & lime…sublime Yes, they are aptly named. Can you believe it? Well I couldn’t. I was too good for gloves. Too good for...
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Farm to Table Spring Crudités with Confit Onion Dip
Crudité platters need to be brought back from the 1980′s graveyard! They should burst with seasonal veggies of gorgeous color and shapely form. After all, the veg platter does not need to be sanctioned...
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Green Garlic & Nettle Vichyssoise
Green garlic & nettle are the heralds of Spring! Both are exceptionally mild so don’t let the ‘garlic’ part of the title scare you away. I know it sounds a little frightening but green garlic...
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Heirloom Carrot & Nopalitos Green Salad
I’m officially announcing my new favorite ingredient: nopales! I’m having tons o’ fun with edible beaver tail cactus and its fruit (prickly pear or ‘tuna’) since it grows wild on Pie Ranch and since...
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Roast Pork Loin with Prickly Pear Glaze
Any excuse to use my last name in a recipe – and ‘Glaze’ really is my last name! As mentioned in my last post on nopales I am having a fun time experimenting with edible cactus including its fruit, the...
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Spoonbread! (It’s Gluten Free)
This gluten-free cornmeal soufflé is without a doubt the most satisfying creation I’ve feasted upon since giving up all wheat products. I baked one off as a test run for a farm-to-table event, and the...
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Nopales & Delicata Squash Quiche
This post concludes my love affair with nopales. Yes, my little prickly friend, we are done! I have used you up and now we must part. And same to you Delicata, you are the very end, my friend. It was...
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Roasted Beet & Cara Cara Salad with Orange Blossom Vinaigrette
I’ve got to squeeze in the end-of-Winter-citrus recipes before Spring blankets us in sweet peas, strawberries, and rhubarb! Cara Cara & beets salad with fennel, orange blossom vinaigrette, and...
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Chorizo & Feta Stuffed Calamari with Tuscan Bean Salad
Maybe it’s the abnormally hot weather in SF, but I’m craving food that is: tangy, spicy, salty, juicy and fresh– nothing manicured, or tweezed to perfection, or ridiculously complex with subtle...
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Rosé Poached Salmon, Lemony Parmesan Cream & Pommes Anna
I missed posting this for Easter – good thing Mother’s Day is right around the corner! How about rosé wine poached salmon infused with herbs and sauced with lemony Parmesan cream for brunch? Rosé...
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Cooking Classes at Pie Ranch!
Are you interested in cooking organic just-picked produce and preparing local and sustainable meat & fish in a farm setting? NOW IS YOUR CHANCE! Come cook with me at Pie Ranch! We will make a...
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Cooking with the Legendary Chef Faz
No, I’m not drowning in some self-afflicted pool of despair – that is not why I haven’t posted in eons. Quite the opposite, I am now the Executive Corporate Chef (official title: Culinary Arts...
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Hami Melon & Avocado Salad
Hami melon is my latest and greatest discovery of the summer. It’s sweet & salty like cantaloup. Crisp & juicy like watermelon. And refreshing and delicate in color – so pale in fact that it...
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Pan Seared Fluke with Warm Wild Mushroom & Lentil Salad, Sunchoke Smear & Lardon
Oh how I WISH that I had stayed current with my blog over the last 8 months, but alas I’ve been so busy with 5 restaurants that weekly fish specials have come and gone! Here is one for Winter; I love...
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Blood Orange & Castelfranco Radicchio Winter Salad
How totally snobby does this salad sound: Cara Cara Blood Orange & Radicchio Variegato di Castelfranco Salad? I would burst out laughing if I saw that actually printed on a menu, but hey, that’s...
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Truffled Celeriac Soup with Dungeness Crab & Romanesco
For a root that looks like a large baseball dusted with dirt, celeriac sure is rich tasting. Celeriac’s flavor is reminiscent of cream-of-celery soup straight out of a Campbell’s can and yet, this...
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Persimmon Upside Down Spice Cake
Is there any Winter fruit more beautiful than Persimmon? Persimmon Upside Down Cake with Hachiya and Fuyu Persimmons Especially the Hachiya persimmons; the heart-shaped flame colored fruit hangs heavy...
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