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While I’m cooking at home from our San Francisco food tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, I’m always looking for things that I need to find as a side dish for a dinner entree. Frequently, I might use a vegetable dish or a salad, however many times soup is a great side dish. While …

While I’m cooking at home this time of year from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\ Little Italy and Chinatown, one of my favorite things to have is butternut squash. There’s lots of ways to serve it, from soup to stuffing it and roasting in the oven, however one my favorite ways to …

While I’m home from our San Francisco food tour of North Beach Little Italy in Chinatown, one of my favorite dishes is eggplant parmesan. While I’m a big fan of eggplant in many dishes, in eggplant parmesan I like the eggplant to be creamy and not very bitter. To do that, I like to salt …

While I’m home from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, sometimes I like a light topping for a number of dishes, from vegetables, to chicken and fish and other meats. One of the best is a combination of fruits, such as citrus fruits and apple fruits.  Cutting up a combination …

Cooking at home from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, sometimes I have one of those days where I really want some kind of comfort food. For me, comfort food usually involves chicken in one way or another. It could be chicken soup, chicken and dumplings, even something like roast …

While I’m a home from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, I l like using poached eggs in a lot of recipes.  An easy way me to make them is by using an egg poacher cup.  It holds the egg together while it’s the water.  I’m not sure if it …

While I’m cooking at home from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, sometimes I like to keep some things around a quick breakfast.  One of those things is crepe batter.  One way to think about crepes is a very thin pancakes that you can use as a wrapper or container …

While cooking at home from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, I like using nuts to add some flavor and crunch to some dishes.  A great way to get even more flavor is to toast them I the oven.  It can vary a little according to the type of nuts, …

While we’re cooking at home from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, a great way to use some vegetables is to grate or shred them.  That works for some vegetables, though not all of them.  For example, shredded or grating brussels sprouts is a great way to use them in …