Recipes
Help! I am drowning under Bearss limes!
Our prolific, hard-working, semi-dwarf Bearss lime is loaded with fruit. Many fell to the ground during our hot spell last week. And so, after making gallons of limeade, freezing lime cubes, preserving yellow limes a la marocaine (green ones turn grey from...
A Biblical Feast
September 2010: My book has found a home in most independent bookstores around California, California missions, and numerous church gift stores in and out of state. If your church or organization is holding a sale and the book fits in with your line...
Kitty Cooks Moroccan in Milwaukee
KITTY IS COOKING IN MILWAUKEE! Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 5-7PM Friends of the UWM Golda Meir Library present Tastes of Morocco Presentation and book signing followed by a sampling of Kitty’s dishes UWM Hefter center 3271 N. Lake Drive Milwaukee WI 53211...
Mulhalbiya
In answer to Victoria, a frequent visitor to this blog, I thought I would share the recipe she requested with all of you. Hello Victoria: The last time we corresponded, you were living in Agadir, in the south of Morocco. I hope you have not...
Kitty’s Cooking tips
This is a family favorite: Give your holiday bird a Moroccan twist! Baste your turkey inside and out with preserved lemon pulp. The salty tang of preserved lemons adds a mouth-watering dimension to a celebratory roast, whether turkey, lamb, beef, or chicken. Placing a...
Encore about figs
Back to figs: I already mentioned our prolific fig tree—absolutely LOADED with Long Yellow variety figs the size of tangerines. The tree survived in a pot for a few years before I planted it in the ground, and it has been growing (pun intended) crazy ever since. The...
Preserved Lemon Lovers, read on!
I love the following column written several years ago by Carolyn Jung, then the food editor for the San Jose Mercury News. She now writes the blog www.foodgal.com. Carolyn attended a class of mine in the Bay Area. As I always do, I began by demonstrating how to make...
Preserved limes?
Hello preserved lemons aficionados: I don’t have a book to announce—yet! But I am preserving lemons. Actually, not lemons, but Bearss limes. It occurred to me, as I was gathering the dozens of yellow Bearss (sic) limes that had fallen to the ground around...
Bay Area Impressions
I wanted to share the interesting experience I had on my way to the airport for my Bay Area appearances at Le Creuset stores, last Saturday at 5:45 AM—my shuttle was a no-show. Panicked, I called the company several times: they did finally send a driver...
Eat, Cook, Link, and Be Merry!!
Encore about figs: I already mentioned our prolific fig tree—absolutely LOADED with Long Yellow variety figs the size of tangerines. The tree survived in a pot for a few years before I planted it in the ground, and it has been growing (pun intended) crazy ever since....
The California Farm Cookbook
Take California's bountiful food producers and ask them for their best recipe for their favorite crop, then add brilliant photos and interesting anecdotes about the farms and their owners. The result is The California Farm Cookbook where each kitchen-tested recipe...
Wild Rice Irene
For The California Farm Cookbook (Pelican Publishing 1994) (link to Amazon.com), I travelled the length and breadth of California, searching out family farmers, and recording their stories. I also solicited their favorite recipes for the fruits and vegetables they...