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 [...]
These Chana Masala Stuffed Sweet Potatoes are a riff on the classic baked potato topped with chili. In my opinion, sweet potatoes are infinitely more interesting (and nutritious) than russet potatoes, and chana masala is a refreshing change from chili. Chana masala literally means “chickpeas in spices” and is a Pakistani/Indian-style chickpea dish cooked in [...]
Nearly four years ago, when my friend Laura and I were visiting Florence, it was Ribollita—a kale and white bean soup thickened with stale bread—that consoled us. Our entire ten day trip had been punctuated by the cold: it was December, snow was falling and we could never get warm enough. It didn’t help that [...]
Hello! My name is Andrea, and I’m a freelance writer living in the lovely, hilly city of San Francisco with my husband Sam.
Whole Wheat Yogurt Flatbreads
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 [...]