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Los Angeles IV: Lisa & John’s Baby Shower

Los Angeles III: Mama’s Dry Curry

Oakland XXXI: Harvesting with Planting Justice – Community Food Garden

Oakland XXVIII: Hawker Fare

Oakland XXVII: Adobo Chicken Sandwiches by Hil’s Cooking

Los Angeles IV: Lisa & John’s Baby Shower

Mama’s dry curry is her Japanese version of an Indian curry. It’s dryer (less wet) curry, with similar consistency to a beef bolognese sauce. It’s great to eat the day you make it, or the next day, and it’s a great dish for a potluck! To make Mama’s dry curry (she improvises it, so here [...]

Planting Justice is our friend Haleh and Gavin’s nonprofit. They have a local community food garden inside Keller Plaza in the Temescal neighborhood of North Oakland, where the Keller Plaza residents and their kids and the Planting Justice team, including my friend Marta, can grow, water, pick and harvest vegetables. On Tuesday’s, you can find [...]

I’ve been craving pork belly for awhile (it’s been about 5 months since I last tried pork belly in New York, where there was an abundance of it), so I asked my friend’s friend who works in the Bay Area restaurant world, and she recommended this spot: Hawker Fare. The hostess told me that the [...]

Hilary of Hil’s Cooking will be cooking up Adobo Chicken and Sweet Potato Sandwiches at this Friday, September 2nd Oakland Art Murmur – First Friday Art Walk near Fox Theater in the uptown neighborhood of Oakland, and she’ll also be vending at the upcoming FiveTen Oakland After Pride Fest on Sunday, September 4th, and the Oakland [...]

La Cocina, the San Francisco-based incubator kitchen held their 3rd annual San Francisco Street Food Festival on Saturday, August 20th. We smelled something delicious pretty quickly and made our way to the La Mar tent, where they were deep frying Yuca Frita. The yuca frita is a cassava root deep fried. It was really crispy on [...]

Gracias Madre serves 100% organic and vegan Mexican cuisine. All cheeses, milks and ice creams are made of nuts, and their handmade tortillas and tamales are made using non-GMO organic heirloom corn. They have a seasonal menu (I enjoyed Enchiladas con Mole, “Spicy mole enchiladas topped with mushrooms and cashew cheese, served with sautéed greens [...]

Napa III: Oyster Shucking

An engagement (konyaku 婚約) is a very special celebration indeed. There are several dishes with ingredients that symbolized longevity (like the mochi) and happiness (symbolized by the chrysanthemum). Each dish was presented in a very creative way, without sparing deliciousness. The final dish was a chirashi zushi that was prepared to be eaten in two [...]

We walked from the Latin Quarter to Le Marais. The Latin Quarter is near the Sorbonne, and it’s full of amazing little streets, full of patisseries or boulangeries and even, a French deli, that you can see above. We stopped for fresh pressed juices from the Sugar Plum Cake Shop which was the perfect place [...]

An old friend recently made homemade guacamole and tortilla chips from scratch. He quartered a stack of tortillas, poured a generous amount of oil into the pan, and fried them up. He layed them over napkins to cool and dry. Beforehand, he prepared guacamole with a few avocados and a dash of salt and pepper. [...]

My favorite spot to get vietnamese sandwiches is Cam Huong in Downtown Oakland’s Chinatown. I like their barbeque chicken sandwich, which is stuffed with vegetables, like carrots, cucumbers and cilantro, and sliced and pickled daikon-like radish. It’s a little bit sweet and tangy. I’m pretty allergic to taro, but I love their taro dessert with [...]

We got a to go order from The Cheese Board (or Cheeseboard), a pizza collective in Berkeley, CA. We had their “pizza of the day,” and it was made pretty simply with delicious ingredients, and we enjoyed it in the car while it was still hot out of the oven. I’ve tried their pizza once before; [...]

Our friend welcomed us our first night in Amsterdam with a really delicious homemade feast, including appetizers (green olives, aioli, salami, crostini topped with salami and tomatoes, etc.), roasted chicken, asparagus, and a very yummy fennel pastry puff (i hope i got this vegetable right). I didn’t get a picture of his tiramisu, but he made [...]

Right around Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, we found a perfect place to eat döner kebab! It was my first time trying it. Döner is a Turkish “roasting meat” prepared on a vertical rotating spit, and sliced off. We tried the Döner im brots (which is German for “Döner in bread”) and enjoyed them with Erdinger Weißbräu [...]

We went into KaDaWe a department store our moms would love. After scoping out the different choices for a late lunch, we decided on the one traditional German spot in the food court (which was a dream come true). The recipes prepared potatoes in different ways. We had a Bitburger beer with our potato pancakes and [...]

Maximilian’s is our favorite currywurst stand in Berlin, Germany.

Annette’s german-style homemade meatballs with potatoes and bechemel cream sauce.

I recently heard Deborah Madison speak at Omnivore Books in San Francisco, CA. She just came out with her new book, Seasonal Fruit Desserts from Orchard, Farm and Market. She shared food combinations, which she called ‘seasonal companions’, such as persimmons with walnut or hazelnut oil, and goat cheese; or poaching your pears with a [...]

We had brunch in the morning at Bar Tartine, followed by a trip to their bakery just three blocks away. There was about a 30-minute wait outside the bakery, and my sister fell in love with this really shy great dane named Sergeant Jackson. ©2010 Erica K. Hsu

Grand Lake Farmers Market takes place every Saturday from 9am to 2pm. Location: Grand Avenue @ Lake Park in Oakland, CA.

A few highlights from Yountville, Napa, CA. The food at Redd was phenomenal, especially the lobster risotto (Carnaroli risotto, maine lobster, meyer lemon confit, truffle oil), John Dory (John dory, coconut jasmine rice, clams, chorizo, saffron curry nage), and the scallops (Caramelized diver scallops, cauliflower purée, almonds, balsamic reduction). Next time, I want to try [...]

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