Goat Festival @ Ferry Building this Saturday

Little children love goats and we are big fans of visiting goat farms around the Bay Area.  We have been to Harley Goat Farms in Pescadero several times (love their cheeses!) and have… Read More

Garden Sushi

We got the inspiration to make this “garden sushi” after visiting the beautiful annual floral extravaganza, Bouquets to Art at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Not surprisingly it was a pair of food-related pieces in the show that caught my eye — a “still life” tea service and a wonderfully realistic platter of orchid-topped sushi.

All American Comfort Food: Chicken Pot Pie

Almost everyone knows and loves chicken pot-pie – it is ultimate comfort food.  It can be made relatively easily at home if you use store bought puff pastry.  Making your own pastry, I… Read More

California-Style: Pauline’s Pizza

Some places like Pauline’s Pizza take a long time to find their way on this blog because, they’re just “no brainer” good — they’re so good it almost seems too obvious to mention… Read More

Food Find: Cinnamon Toast @ The Mill

Recently opened, The Mill in NOPA is a joint venture between Josey Baker Bread and Four Barrel Coffee.  It a welcoming, clean, open and fresh space, that if it had internet access no… Read More

Citrus Sweet, Citrus Sour

  Over the last few months we’ve devoured bags of cuties, puckered up for tangelos, peeled navel orange after navel orange, and cooked up a storm with meyer lemons from my mom and… Read More

Fun with Easter Eggs

We’ve got Easter egg fever here at Casa Stacie! Alexander Girard-inspired Easter egg sculpture, glow in the dark easter egg hunt and quickie pysanka (Ukranian Easter eggs).

Struwen (Good Friday Pancakes)

Yesterday we had the chance to slip in a quick culinary trip to to central Germany to try our hands at making a West Phalian Easter-time treat called stuwen, a barely sweet, yeasted pancake with raisins. I would describe stuwen as somewhere between a pancake, biscuit and a churro …. and honestly, can you ever really ever go wrong with fried bread?

Lanchonete Brasileria: Sunstream Coffee

I have driven by Sunstream Coffee on Geary near Masonic in SF dozens (maybe hundreds) of times. I think I even knew they had some sort of interesting nibbles but it’s not the… Read More

The World’s Greatest Sandwich – BLT Fried Egg-and-Cheese by Thomas Keller

I am sure there are bigger and better sandwiches out there, but this one is pretty darn good.  On days Stacie and I work together, we often try and make a quick lunch… Read More

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