Under normal circumstances, we would be celebrating the coming of spring on our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy and Chinatown.  Right now, we’re doing the important thing by staying home, however we’re looking for those signs of springtime. Usually, we would be seeing all of the springtime vegetables and food coming into …

Being at home from our San Francisco Food Tour of North Beach\Little Italy, we’re enjoying being at home as much as I can. At the same time, as much as I try to avoid it, sometimes cabin fever sets in.  Fortunately, having a dog, I have to walk the dog outside.  The good news is …

Usually, we’re able to go out and get a variety of foods.  Right now, it’s more important to stay at home.   Sometimes, I look in my refrigerator and see the same vegetables that I had the previous day.  Frequently, I’ll try to take the same vegetable that I had the previous day and I want …

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 …