Very close to my place of work in downtown San Francisco is a popular gourmet take-out staged in a former cigar/tobacco stand, aptly named The Sentinel (you can read people’s thoughts on the place here). They serve a rotating, limited menu daily which is updated every morning on their website. Almost every day, they offer [...]

So I had a couple friends over and got all three of my roomates in on dinner tonight, just randomly. I decided during my 2:30-5pm class that I wanted to cook tonight and have people around, so called a few friends who didn’t answer and got a hold of a few others and ended up [...]

Last night I made my roomates a snack of Fritole, these fabulous yeasty Italian doughnuts with raisins. They’re very easy to make and incredible, so I thought I’d share this traditional recipe.

200 grams all purpose flour
60 grams sugar
1 egg
10gr (or more for faster rising) brewer yeast (Fresh/wet yeast that is kept regrigerated)
200ml milk
50 grams raisins
generous [...]

Some roomates and other random people have asked me lately about making a stock (and sometimes I find them making stocks and force some advice on them–they thank me later), so I thought I’d just put some overly simple rules about stock-making up.

So for chicken stock, to use in risotto or as a soup base, [...]

Over the last three nights I’ve consumed about a bottle of Nadeau (Paso Robles wine region) 2000 Zinfandel “Olde Vines”. I opened it in Cambria with J and suckled at it for two nights, ending in Oakland by myself and half a bottle from this afternoon into this evening. I’ve forgotten most of what I [...]

I am craving tacos de mexico so badly.

I’ve had two weeks of classes at Apicius now and will leave you with some pictures of what I’ve cooked.

There is a Piazza literally 10 steps accross from my front door that I like to go to because there is a good restaurant with nice value there. I went to it the first time and had mini lobsters (I really need to find out what they are called) and shrimp all whole with head [...]