Recipe: Seed and Oat Cakes

Seed and Oat cakes - a gluten free healthy snack

(Updated 10/15/16 with new photo, 10/23/16 with new archival art) Back in February, the San Francisco Chronicle’s Food+Home section had a feature article about using seeds in the kitchen. Written by Amanda Gold, the article recommends looking at seeds as a healthy and tasty addition to your diet, in savory and sweet applications. Always looking […]

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Recipe: Zucchini Fritters

The first zucchini have started to appear in Berkeley’s farmers market, though not in the diversity shown in the photo above (which I took last summer). One of my favorite ways to eat zucchini is as a herb-laced, cheese-studded fritter. The zucchini is grated, salted, rested, and then the moisture is squeezed. There are endless […]

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Salad of Roasted Cauliflower

Roasted Cauliflower Salad with Olives, Lemon, and Thyme

Inspired by A Few Reservations‘ description of a spicy cauliflower dish that was part of a dinner at Delfina Pizzeria, I have been experimenting with roasted cauliflower salads over the last few weeks. I forgot to take pictures, but managed to remember how I made the best of the experiments. The cauliflower becomes sweeter and […]

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