As featured in Bay Area Bites, April 28, 2009.
Every once in awhile I will dine out and happen upon a dish that is so good I spend the entire evening scheming about how I can recreate it at home. Coco500’s truffled mushroom flatbread with sea salt and chili is one of them. It [...]

Hua entered the next age bracket of his life last week and we celebrated with two of his favorite things: friends and food!
As we sat there making the invite list…we quickly realized 1) Jeez, Hua has a lot of friends, and 2) how are we going to feed all these people on the cheap, easy, [...]

I’m always looking for an easy, healthy, recipes that don’t skimp on flavor, so when I saw this recipe for a Roasted Eggplant Spread on Ina Garten’s show, Barefoot Contessa, I was sold. The title is a little misleading though, as I find that the peppers and tomato paste are just as important here [...]