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Apple Cider Campout In Sonoma

In September, a group of friends were invited to the farm of someone that our group knew up in Sonoma County. The farmer invited us to come camp out in his grove of fruit trees, pick apples, spend ...

My Mushroom Hunting Weekend

Last weekend, armed with my Opinel mushroom knife, I drove 2 hours up Highway 1 to Salt Point State Park on the Sonoma Coast to join other members of the Mycological Society of San Francisco on the mo...

What's Cooking This Weekend?
Weekend of November 1-2

Hey, it's November already! It's almost winter, and our kitchen is becoming more and more attractive as an oasis of warmth in shortening days and darker evenings. We've been cooking like mad this week...

Weekend Eating: The Last of the Asparagus

Asparagus season has just finished up in the Midwest, but we found one more bunch of fat spears at the market last week. And did we savor those spears this weekend! Here's how we cooked this precious ...

Weekend Report: The Ice Cream Maker is Loose!

Watch out! The ice cream maker has been liberated from its winter deep freeze, and it came out swinging with not one but two projects this weekend. The first? Homegrown mint ice cream with chunks of c...

Weekend Baking: Joy of Cooking's Coconut Cake Recipe

We spent a snowy weekend with family, baking birthday cake. The recipe for Coconut Milk Cake Cockaigne is from our mother's classic Joy of Cooking book. We smothered the three layers of soft, light ...

Recipe Review: Mark Bittman's Pernil Pork Roast

We enjoyed last week's New York Times Dining section a lot. The recipes were tantalizing, the photos were appetizing, and they had Harold McGee guest writing again. The Minimalist's recipe for Perni...

Weekend Cooking Report: Homemade Pizza

Pizza is cold-weather food, and not just because a slice of gooey, crispy pizza is sublime comfort food. Well-made homemade pizza means turning up your oven as hot as it will possibly go - 600ºF is ...

Readers Cooked Like Crazy Last Weekend!

"Ginger Pork Stir Fry" - Amber (Amber's recipe is here) "Ate a friend's chicken mole that was utterly brilliant stuff. Damn tasty, not very authentic, but who cares when it tastes good?" - DrewB "I ...

Parents' Weekend Post-Mortem: Success!

As a follow-up to last Friday's Open Thread, we thought we'd let you know how cooking for the parents went: Swimmingly. I had MGR and dad on the grill with a couple of organic Obe rib-eyes, slathere...

Weekend Report: Urban Harvest

With the office move this weekend, there was no time to cook. We got our fill of connecting with food by attending the Urban Harvest event downtown, put on by the nice folks at Slow Food USA. ...