Thanksgiving Sides: Truffled Spinach and Chantarelles
November 19, 2009 · 7 comments
A couple months ago I had the privilege of hosting Chef Gabriel Rucker of Le Pigeon for a cooking demonstration at Williams-Sonoma. He prepared a wonderful truffled spinach that inspired this variation.
You’ll need one bunch of spinach for every two portions; no need for expensive baby spinach in this dish. Begin by gently sautéing the [...]
Categories: Thanksgiving, entertaining, gluten-free, mushroom, side dish, vegetarian
Tagged: creme fraiche, entertaining, gluten-free, mushroom, side dish, Thanksgiving, vegetarian
Home Creamery: Crème Fraîche
April 23, 2009 · 17 comments
Setting up a home creamery to make your own dairy foods is really very simple and one of the best things you can do to economize. You’ll also end up with better dairy foods as a result. I’ll start this series by revisiting crème fraîche.
Categories: gluten-free, home creamery, pantry
Tagged: creme fraiche, gluten-free, home creamery, pantry
Making Crème Fraîche
April 6, 2009 · 1 comment
I watched a video on the ‘Net about making crème fraîche. You may have seen that one or a similar one yourself. Looks easy enough.
Categories: condiments, home creamery, pantry
Tagged: condiments, creme fraiche, home creamery, pantry, sour cream

My name is Gareth Mark, and I live in Portland, Oregon. I've been a line cook a few times and worked several years as a pastry chef.



