Four for Dinner

but it’s chicken! In Jacques Pepin’s “Fast Food My Way”, he gives a recipe for chicken breasts cooked with garlic and parsley in the style the French use for frogs legs. It is exactly like how I’ve eaten frogs legs (and they do taste quite like chicken). This is a great recipe and every time [...]

As if the Speedy No Knead Bread wasn’t enough of a hit, Monday night I made a bean soup that everyone sucked down like it was their last meal. Even J, who doesn’t always love beans, finished her bowl and said that it was the best bean soup that I’ve made. The speedy version of [...]

Rain, rain, don’t go away – we need you! And, you mean SOUP and hearty dinners this week (for the most part). Today is S’s birthday, but we celebrated last night with family and had a delicious cake from Tartine Bakery in San Francisco. Their Lemon Meringue Cake is unique, wonderful and very lemony. S [...]

L suggested that we have pork tenderloin for dinner on Thursday night. Yes, sounds good, not too fatty, quick cooking. Good idea. But how to make it. The last couple of times that I made pork tenderloin (how long ago, I don’t remember) were completely uninspiring. When L & I decided on pork tenderloin for [...]

How does it happen that my children always want to cook on play dates? One wonders…. Today, J had an impromptu date with a friend and said, “Mommy, can we cook something? How about muffins?” I said, “Sure, we can bring them for snack for L when we pick her up, and for your friend’s [...]

Really, not the prettiest picture of dinner. I’m trying to get everything on the table, I have no experience in “food styling”, and J is saying, “Mommy, enough with the pictures.” Well, it tasted much better than it looks. This was a good, if quick, dinner on Wednesday. I had to hit the road at [...]

Healthy. Yes. And, it is an easy way to fix two different styles of fish. J doesn’t like the asian seasonings and vegetables, so I prepare her fish slightly differently. She gets a lemon butter steam while L, S & I get the asian version. And, when it is all done and on the plate, [...]

Last weekend, the long President’s Day weekend, I didn’t do too much cooking. But, I did do a bunch of eating. We went to one of our favorite restaurants, located relatively nearby on the California coast in Pescadero (near some great tide pools and beaches, and Phipps Farm): Duarte’s Tavern. This charming spot has been [...]

Haven’t posted lately.  Not sure why. This isn’t even the soup I made on Saturday. What I made looked just like this one, but with darker broth because it was turkey soup, not chicken. I still can’t get used to photographing my dinner, or its preparation. This soup was from this summer when both girls [...]

This has truly been a week of cooking. I’m usually not this busy, but, boy this has been a week. The teacher snack – o.k., I could have bought everything, but that is just not my style. No one cares but me. If there are cookies, do they need to be home made to be [...]