Chris Nordquist
I love this combination. Last weekend our friends Anthony and David brought over a box of beautiful produce that we used to cook dinner together, including a couple of large bulbs of fresh fragrant fennel. One went into a sauce, but the other I sliced and served with our cheese course, pairing it with two […]
We got lucky in San Francisco. Frances, an excellent new restaurant, opened right across the street from us, and it’s thriving. The space had seem doomed, hosting a series of financially and/or gastronomically unsuccessful ventures (the longest-lived of which was an odd Hawaiian-themed place with Spam on the menu) but Chef Melissa Perello has broken […]
I suppose some people would consider it cheating. These delicious savory tarts are quick and easy to make because I use frozen puff pastry dough rather than making my own. (Puff pastry isn’t difficult to make, but the process is a little more fiddly and time-consuming than making ordinary pastry crust, so I usually take […]
Last Monday good friends with a farm in upstate New York brought us box of beautiful late summer produce. In it was a big basket of tiny wine grapes — super ripe and filled with a flavor that’s tarter and more complex than supermarket table grapes. (I’ve noticed these grapes starting to appear in markets […]
