Being a Bay Area resident and having spent time in San Jose, I have eaten a lot of Pho. (For those who don’t know, Pho is a Vietnamese soup dish made with various parts of beef including the shank, the bones and, if you really want to lick your chops—filet mignon.) It has a lot [...]

Bacon and Peas Carbonara (My new favorite pasta carbonara recipe from http://www.food52.com/recipes/214_daddys_carbonara) 1 pound dried spaghetti 1 pound bacon 10 ounces frozen peas (1 package) 4 eggs 1 cup fresh grated parmesan black pepper Start cooking the pasta (I have long subscribed to the less-water method Harold McGee addresses here). Ask the hotline about this [...]

We are never ones to skimp on fat or flavor in a recipe, although we probably should for our waistlines, so when a recipe comes around that is both healthy and tasty, we are all for it. Soba noodles are Japanese thin noodles made of at least 30% buckwheat and the rest regular wheat flour [...]