Making pumpkin, sweet potato or pecan pie for Thanksgiving? Then it's time to learn how to Blind Bake a Crust. If you love a flaky, non soggy crust with your pumpkin or pecan pie then blind baking is for you. If you’ve never heard of
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Breakfast this weekend was punctuated with a pronouncement from The Mom. “The best fish I ever ate”, this from a women who has been eating cured, smoked, salted, baked salmon for 94 years. I may be a native Los Angelena, but you can’t deny eastern
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I recently received a package in the mail at KCRW. Opening it up revealed a thin, long package of wood strips of differing thickness held together with a loop of chain called Pastry Wands. I was immediately intrigued. I tend to be a chaotic cook who
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Yeah, it's nearly November and yet here in Los Angeles you can still find these adorable baby zucchini with the flowers attached at a couple farmers markets. I apologize to all of you who are watching your available local produce shrink along with the temperatures. (At
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A typical week in my life is hard to predict. Eclectic is my normal. The bedrock of the week is time spent at KCRW with Good Food producer Gillian Ferguson recording interviews. Every interview is the result of brainstorming sessions, scanning the news/foodisphere, our personal
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