Spanish Musica: A most delicious green bean
Nancy Skall of Middleton Farm in Healdsburg is harvesting her extraordinary Spanish Musica green beans, MIddleton Farm's Spanish Musica beans which look like Romano beans but have a slightly different...
View ArticleGreenstring Farm Store, Open Daily 10 to 6
Remember the short-lived Saint Rose, Mark Malicki’s restaurant that opened first on South A Street and then moved to bigger digs in Sebastopol, where P/30 is now located? One of the most endearing...
View ArticleApple Juice & Black Pepper Sauce for Foie Gras & Chicken
As promised in a post about foie gras earlier today, here’s a simple and easy recipe for foie gras with sauteed apples and apple cider sauce. You need no special skills nor equipment to make it. Seared...
View Article420 Tribute: Remembering Brownie Mary
UPDATE: This entry was originally in November of last year but in honor of April 20 and all things 420, I’m reposting it. Brownie Mary was a wonderful and unforgettably kind woman. *** As I watched the...
View ArticleSpend Sunday afternoon with Farmer George
You’ve probably seen McClelland’s European-style butter at a farmers market or local store. It is one of the county’s newest farmstead butters and it is absolutely delicious. The plastic tubs of butter...
View ArticleFresh From Our Farmers: Green String Farm on the cusp of spring
If you turn from Adobe Rd. into the long driveway that leads to Petaluma’s Green String Farm Store, you’ll notice several leafless trees with thin golden upright branches. Morning sun glances off them...
View ArticleWhat’s your favorite turkey dressing? Here’s mine, along with other delicious...
Last year, I wrote about nontraditional turkey dressings and stuffings. You can find those posts here: Polenta Stuffing with Pancetta and Sage (This is my favorite of the nontraditional stuffings; I...
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