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 [...]

Perhaps nothing is as succulent and luxurious as lobster and combined with lots of cream, it is like heaven in your mouth. This rich and creamy broth combined with tender pieces of lobster meat is sure to be an excellent start to any meal. We followed Thomas Keller’s method of cooking lobsters, the same method [...]

When flowers begin to bloom and we can start peeling off our layers in anticipation of warmer weather, we get a little excited about fruits and vegetables we haven’t seen all winter, starting to appear at the grocery stores and farmers markets – okay maybe we get a LOT excited. And nothing is as fun [...]

Our significant others love minestrone soup; each time we go out to eat and there is a minestrone special, you know one of them is going to order it. With all the different variations of minestrone available, it has become a crapshoot – you never know what you’re going to get, except that it will [...]