It’s time to show some Sacramento support! Leslie Navarra, Cal grad and Sacramento resident, is a semi-finalist in the 45th Pillsbury Bake-Off contest. Her recipe for Apricot-Bacon Flatbread was selected out of tens of thousands of entries and is now going head-to head in a public vote against one other recipe for a chance to […]
Working in food PR is never good for the waistline, especially when you’re working on a project that features a delicious recipe! Such was the case last week when I was working on a St. Patrick’s Day project for our client, the California Raisin Marketing Board, which included a yummy Irish Soda Bread recipe. After […]
DANISH DOUGH Makes 2-1/2 pounds dough For the dough (Detrempe) 1 ounce fresh yeast or 1 tablespoon active dry yeast 1/2 cup whole milk 1/3 cup sugar Zest of 1 orange, finely grated 3/4 teaspoon ground cardamom 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 vanilla bean, split and scraped 2 large eggs, chilled 1/4 cup fresh […]
While perusing some of my favorite foodie blogs, I stumbled across the Daring Bakers, an online group of recreational bakers looking for a challenge and a forum in which to share their successes, and sometimes failures. Without hesitation, I found myself e-mailing Lis and offering a multitude of reasons why I should be a Daring […]
I like to play in the kitchen, flip through cook books and test out new recipes. That said, I am also very much a creature of habit and often fall back to the known and comfortable. There are a handful of recipes that I make at least once a month. I can practically prepare them […]
