by Stan Santos
Categories: American cuisine, autumn, California, cooking, farmers' markets, Ferry Building, food, food photography, Italian food, New York City, San Francisco, spring, summer, Union Square Greenmarket, winter • Tags: B, cooking, farmers' markets, Ferry Building, food photography, New York City, photography, San Francisco, Union Square Greenmarket
by Stan Santos
Clicking on any of the tiles in the mosaic below will bring up a slideshow of high-resolution photographs. They’re random pix I took while I was gallivanting around San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. 😉 Corned beef hash, fried egg, challah toast Rainbow chard, anchovy, pine nuts Grilled cheese toastie open-faced sandwich with pancetta and caramelized onion, at Cowgirl Creamery in the Ferry Building
Categories: American cuisine, California, cooking, food photography, Italian food, San Francisco, spring • Tags: American cuisine, California, cooking, Ferry Building, food photography, Italian food, San Francisco, spring
by Stan Santos
I’m starting to write again. A little history first: back in 2000, I applied to The New School so I could obtain my MFA degree in creative writing. I was declined because either the substance or body of my work was deemed to be insufficient at the time. You could say that I’ve been a slacker ever since. Unfortunately, I don’t know exactly what to write about, so for now, I’m keeping it limited to this blog. As some of […]
Categories: cooking, food, food photography • Tags: Alice Waters, autumn, cooking, food photography, fruit, Union Square Greenmarket, vegetables, writing
by Stan Santos
To most Americans, meatballs are made to be paired with spaghetti or some other type of pasta, typically served in a concoction known as “Sunday gravy“. In the annals of Italian-American kitchen lore, this is a long-simmered sauce that most often than not, contains a variety of pork cuts, aromatic vegetables, tomatoes and wine. However, in Italy, meatballs are another creature altogether. They can be cooked in a simple tomato sauce, or rolled in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. Occasionally you may […]
Categories: cooking, food, food photography, Italian food, recipe, summer • Tags: cooking, dinner, food photography, Italian food, meatballs, recipe, summer
by Stan Santos
On Facebook, someone mentioned how the style of my cooking so often can be tracked to old-time Italian country cooking. At the time the recession of 2008 hit, I started to eat less meat because of how much it cost. At the same time, I also made a change in how I cooked. Practically everything I make follows a strictly seasonal pattern since I buy produce from my farmers’ market all year round. Another reason is that shortly after I […]
Categories: cooking, food, food photography, Gluten-Free, Italian food, photography, recipe, summer, vegan • Tags: cooking, food photography, gluten-free, green beans, Italian food, Mark Bittman, recession, summer, tomatoes, vegan
by Stan Santos
A few months ago, I bought “My Paris Kitchen“. It was roughly around this time that I decided to change my habit of rarely cooking directly from cookbooks to more frequent usage. I’ve started to buy more of them. Then I discovered that buying and collecting cookbooks is just like eating French fries in some ways. You can’t stop after just one. Like Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem cookbook, I’ve been cooking from David’s book for some time now. French cuisine is not […]
Categories: cooking, food, food photography, French food, LGBT, recipe, summer • Tags: chicken, cookbooks, cooking, dating, David Lebovitz, food photography, French food, LGBT, recipe, relationships
by Stan Santos
I have a confession to make. I am one of those people who adores ramps. I go crazy over them when they appear. Their presence at the market says that spring is really here. I try to cook with them in as many ways as possible, because they’re only around for a brief window of time. Blink, and you’ll miss ’em. Ramps, or Allium tricoccum for the botanically inclined, are wild leeks. Normally available from mid-March to late April or […]
Categories: American cuisine, cooking, food, food photography, general, Gluten-Free, recipe, spring, vegetarian • Tags: American cuisine, cooking, food photography, pesto, ramps, recipe, spring, vegetarian
by Stan Santos
When I was younger, I grew up hating garlic, most vegetables and spicy food. I was to my mother’s chagrin, a picky eater. It’s interesting how the adult version of me is a polar opposite in ways I never thought imaginable. Like some of you, I have friends who have certain food dislikes. One can’t stand celery, claiming that it has a smell that she can detect from a distance. Another reserves the same sort of hatred for tomatoes. My […]
Categories: American cuisine, cooking, food, food photography, Gluten-Free, recipe, vegan, vegetarian, winter • Tags: cooking, fennel, food photography, gluten-free, recipe, soup, vegan, vegetarian, winter
by Stan Santos
There’s a tradition in nearly every culture I can think of that transforms stale bread into something magical. I had a rock-hard baguette that was leftover from Saturday that could have subbed as a hockey puck and still come out unscathed. A few tablespoons cold water and a clean kitchen towel did wonders; minutes later, dinner was ready. In Spain and Portugal, migas consists of nothing more than rough cubes of day-old bread fried in olive oil until crisp, spiked […]
Categories: cooking, food, food photography, recipe, winter • Tags: cooking, dinner, eggs, food photography, pork, recipe, Spanish food, winter
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