Slow Food Citrus Tasting
Citrus Nursery Visit and Citrus Tasting February 10, 2007 Join Slow Food Yolo on a private tour and tasting at Four Winds Growers, a wholesale citrus nursery tucked in the hills behind Winters. Mary Helen Seeger, co-owner, and great granddaughter of the founder of Four Winds Nursery, based in Fremont, will be leading the tour. [...]
Passionfruit-Coconut Cupcakes
Two weeks ago, Garrett, of Vanilla Garlic fame, posted a challenge to come up with a new cupcake. He and many other people these days are cuckoo for cupcakes. As someone who had cupcakes at my wedding instead of a big cake, I completely understand. They’re perfect single servings, you can really be clever with [...]
Travel Eats: Ono Kauai Kau Kau
Apologies to Hawaiians for whom I may have mangled their language above (it should roughly translate to: Good Kauai Food)! But I just returned from a week on Kauai and am infected with tropical fever. I realize that this is far from Sacramento, but I really can’t resist sharing some of my delicious discoveries. There [...]
Sam Choy’s World-Famous Fried Marlin Poke
This is a bit untraditional in that the fish is briefly seared. You could leave it raw if you prefer, but you need the highest-quality fish available. Serves 4 1 pound marlin fillets, cut into 1/4- to 3/4-inch cubes [note: you could try ahi or skipjack tuna as substitutes] 4 teaspoons soy sauce 1 cup [...]
PlacerGROWN Farm Conference – Not just for Farmers Anymore
For the first time, the annual PlacerGROWN Farm Conference will offer workshops of interest to the general community. The workshop strand titled “Eat Local! Connecting with Your Local Food System” will offer four sessions that will inform and inspire eaters to get to know their local producers and get connected with the bounty of fabulous [...]
A good reason to Drink
Davis Food-Coop is hosting a wine tasting to benefit the Good Humus Farm Preservation Project this Friday January 19th from 6pm-8pm. They will be tasting through the Zins of California Cline Zinfandel Jewel Zinfandel Perry Creek Zin Man Kunde Estate Zinfandel Sobon Estate “Fiddletown” Zinfandel Rosenblum Paso Robles Zinfandel Rosenblum Aparicio Zinfandel Rosenblum Zinfandel Port [...]
Front Yard Gardens – No Way if the city has its say!
I was recently forwarded this letter regarding Front Yard Gardens, and the fact that the city council is moving forward on their “reworking” of the current code. Now truth me told I do not live down town but I do have quite a few friends who do, and actually a few of these friends actually [...]
Vino Volo
Inevitably we all are going to travel somewhere and some point in our lives, trasping through the airports well before our scheduled flights just to make sure we get through security in time. Usually that leaves us with a couple of the stand buy culinary options to choose from (I am thinking Starbucks, CPK, or [...]
Sad News: Elk Grove Co-op to Close
At its Jan. 2, 2007, meeting, the Sacramento Natural Foods Co-op Board of Directors voted to assign the lease for the Co-op’s Elk Grove store to Grocery Outlet, pending final negotiations of transfer. This will result in the closing of the Co-op’s Elk Grove store at the end of January. This beautiful 20,000-foot store designed [...]
Dine Downtown Restaurant Week
What a deal! If you’ve been wanting to try some of the great restaurants in downtown, make plans now to join the Dine Downtown Restaurant Week. From this Saturday, the 13th, through next Friday, the 19th, participating restaurants will be offering three-course prix fixe menus for $30 a person. Mason’s offering includes Baby Valley Greens [...]
