While we’re home from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown like most us, we’re trying to be conscious of doing things to keep our healthy both on a physical and mental basis.  When I’m at home all of time nowadays, it’s easy to lay around and watch television all day.  …

Usually when are on our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown this time of year, we can look around and see the signs of spring, whether it is flowers or the foods that some into market.  Right now, as we are hanging around the house, it takes some effort to see …

While we’re on a break from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown, we’ve probably got more time on our hand than we would like.  Delivery from some of our favorite restaurants is a great way to help support them.  At the same time, we’re doing a lot of cooking, and …

While there are places along our San Francisco Food Tour of Chinatown that are great places to get a wok, you may not have one right now.  The good news is that while a wok is great to have for cooking certain dishes, you can great results if you don’t have one.  The first thing …

On our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy, our stops use the best ingredients to make pasta, from semolina flour to fresh eggs, plus fresh water and salt.    For many of us, who are home right now, we don’t always have things like semolina flour.  And given that we really need to stay …

I’m one of these people who has lots of kitchen equipment, usually just about everything that I need. It’s the same way as the stops that we have on our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown.  Being restaurants, there is usually not much that they don’t have. Right now, if I …

For me, I tend to cook with chicken thighs more than anything else.  I like the bone-in chicken thighs with the skin on.  I seem to get the best results from them.  When I’m sautéing chicken, I like to get the oil very hot (about medium-high) until it stat to shimmer.  I always start off …

If you do it with your dog, it seems to be even better. It’s usually the opposite of what you feel like doing.  Sometimes, the more the stress, the more you feel like pulling the covers over your head and trying to hide out from the world.  It can as simple as walking down the …

In the winter, things like chicken and dumplings meet that need.  For me, risotto is my version of comfort food.  Eating it feels really good, however for me, cooking my own risotto and then eating it seems to make it even more of a comfort food.  Figuring out what I’m going to put in the …

Something like a frittata.  It’s one those dishes that is basically a clean out the cabinets dish for me.  I just take whatever vegetables that I have, along with some onions and garlic, add some kind of meat if I have on hand, and then cook or bake them with eggs.  Or just going through …