As I mentioned, I visited a couple of high schools this past Wednesday. Here I am at Casa Grande High School, standing with the other Debs (plus the librarian and bookseller!) under a fantastic sign that the high school book club made for us: I feel that the fact that we’re surrounded by busy students [...]
A couple of weeks ago I got together with some friends for a Julia Child night, in honor of the movie Julie & Julia. We made three dishes, all from Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. For the first course, we had fish mousse: Looks a little weird, eh? Yeah, that’s a mousse [...]
Last week I decided to try, again, to recreate my mom’s hongshao rou, or red-cooked pork. (I’ve written about previous attempts here.) To do so, I googled “hongshao rou” and “red-cooked pork” (the literal translation of the Chinese phrase) to see what other people had done. Most of the recipes did not resemble the one [...]
Sushi Ran is a fabulous Japanese restaurant in Sausalito. Amy and I went there last weekend, and it did not disappoint. We started with their Hawaiian ahi poke, which came out looking like some kind of alien communication device. (We also ordered the bargain-priced happy hour wine tasting flight for $11. Fab!) It was delicious! [...]
This week I have a bit of a hodge-podge of photos for you. Let’s start with the yummiest one: OK, I’m cheating a little bit by putting the dessert first. This is what we had to finish off a series of snacks at the Slanted Door a little while ago. I can’t remember what this [...]