beef with fresh huckleberry sage sauce

beef with fresh huckleberry sage sauce

Yesterday I sang the praises of the fresh huckleberry festival going on at the new Albertsons on Broadway this weekend and teased you with the prospect of a recipe. Today I deliver on that promise with this Beef with Fresh Huckleberry Sage Sauce. It’s a salad...
creamy cilantro avocado dressing

creamy cilantro avocado dressing

Sometimes it practically takes an act of nature to get my busy girlfriends together. What will almost always do the trick though is when our friend Heather, who lived in Boise and then moved to Los Gatos, comes back for a visit. Schedules get rearranged. Evenings...
chim chim chimichurri

chim chim chimichurri

It’s not really an impulse buy. It’s more like a habit that I can’t seem to be able to walk by the fresh herb section of the grocery store without, at the very least, throwing in my cart a bunch of Italian parsley and one also of cilantro. They tend...
a more laid back pesto

a more laid back pesto

I’ve been giving more thought to the saying “waste not, want not” these days although perhaps not in the manner in which it is intended. The pondering is not driven by a monetary factor (although it never hurts to save a dime) but is more about the...
gifts from the heart… and the kitchen

gifts from the heart… and the kitchen

Just a few years ago, Christmas was all about buying presents and buying lots of them. I purchased for every family member and most of my friends and coworkers. I practically started shopping for the next year on December 26. That’s when things were more flush....
the more the marinara

the more the marinara

It’s not like marinara is expensive to buy necessarily and tomato sauce definitely isn’t, so each year when the kitchen is destroyed and my back aches from standing all day I question why I go to all the work to make my own sauce. What makes me take on...