Archive for May, 2005
Restaurant Review: Habana
Update: Habana went out of business some time recently, but there are still plenty of yummy Cuban restaurants to enjoy in San Francisco! Went to dinner at Habana the other night. We had reservations for four at 8:00, but we got stuck in the dreaded Bay Bridge traffic and at 7:30 I could forsee us being very late for our dinner. Fortunately, I'd...
Freezing made simple
I recently harvested the last of my sugar snap peas from my "winter" garden, along with some of my late growing carrots. I didn't really have time to do anything with them, but didn't want my home grown produce to go to waste, so I blanched and froze both crops. I did the same thing, minus the blanching, with some fresh-from-the-field strawberries...
Restaurant Review: Cortez
I went to Cortez a couple of weeks ago and have been meaning to write about it. Though the restaurant staff seemed rather stuffy, the food itself was fantastic. We had an 8:30 reservation for a party of four, but had difficulty finding parking and had to drop off two members of our party to claim our table on time. (If you go, go early to find...
You say tomato, I say yum
I need to record this now, so that I don't forget when it happened and then get all confused in later months (like I did with my winter garden). I planted three different tomato plants on May 1st, all heirloom varieties cultivated by horticulture students at a local community college (hope they were A students). I planted "Polish" tomatoes, which...
The next best thing to homemade
I have to rave for a moment about the tortillas at Trader Joe's. Obviously, they're not as good as my own tortillas, but on a weeknight when I've got plenty of other things to do besides making my own, they're just right. (Trader Joe's actually has a couple of different kinds of tortillas, so be sure to get the ones that have the word "homemade"...
Recipe: Winter Vegetable Latkes
After going back and forth about what to make with my veggies last night, I decided on a kind of off-season meal. I made: herb-rubbed flank steak (with fresh rosemary from the garden), winter vegetable latkes (with carrots, turnips, and onions from the Box) with apple sauce, and spinach salad (spinach also from the Box) with garlic croutons and...
