Ever since attending a demonstration by my friend Janet Fletcher when her excellent book, Yogurt: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, was published in 2015, I’ve been making this easy homemade yogurt every week or two. Like many baby boomers, I made…

My friend Carol called the other day. She’d made pesto using a reliable recipe from a reliable cookbook, but it tasted overhwhelmingly salty. What type of salt did you use? I don’t know. Sea salt I think. Does it matter?

Our indoor kitten, Kimchi, recenty ran away from home. In a little break from our focus on food, here are our Top Ten ways to find a lost kitty, in hopes that it might some day help you to find your own little runaway.

Join me and a slew of your favorite cookbook authors at A Literary Feast at the San Francisco Ferry Building on Sunday November 13 from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

A group of Bay Area food bloggers is holding a Farmers’ Market Dinner Party and I get to make my favorite course—dessert! Well, actually, like all good meals, this one has two desserts.

You know how easy it is to make chocolate truffles, right? Basically, it’s a ganache that you chill until firm enough to form it into small balls. Roll them in cocoa or other toppings. Boom. Done.

Ice cream sandwiches? In the heart of Winter? You bet! Visit your local ice cream shop and you may be surprised to see that the lines haven’t thinned a bit.