Essen, Trinken, Treffen—Eat, Drink, Meet, I translated the the words on the window of a soon-to-open restaurant. So it’s going to be a German restaurant, I thought. This is either going to be a hit or a miss. A year after first discovering the restaurant, I can tell you that Leopold’s has been a hit. With [...]
This recipe is a keeper: I’ve already made these flatbreads four times in the last two weeks and I’m sure I’ll be making more of them this week. Thanks to the third (and final) cookbook I received for Christmas, Yotam Ottolenghi’s Plenty, I’ve discovered a new favorite in our household. Ottolenghi pairs the flatbreads with [...]
Cookbooks are one of my weaknesses, and my family is well aware of this fact. I already wrote about the Dona Tomas cookbook Sam gave me for Christmas, and today I’m going to share about the cookbook my parents gave me for Christmas: Tender by Nigel Slater. The subtitle of Tender is A cook and [...]
Sam and I love cioppino, the tomato-based stew filled with chunks of white fish, shrimp, clams, mussels and whatever other seafood scraps the fishmonger has on hand. Cioppino was invented in San Francisco, and I can see why: the Bay and ocean provided plentiful seafood and the foggy weather begged a hot, filling stew to [...]
Hello! My name is Andrea, and I’m a freelance writer living in the lovely, hilly city of San Francisco with my husband Sam.
Cream of Broccoli and Green Pea Soup
After months of infrequent rain showers, we’re finally getting a deluge of rain, and it’s to soups that I’ve been turning to stave off the chill. When I saw the recipe for Cream of Broccoli soup in the April issue of Everyday Food, I knew it would be a good use for the head of [...]