Rancho Gordo at the Eat Real Festival 2015
I'm not a huge fan of big public festivals. I like dinner parties and maybe a good Boz Scaggs concert. But the annual Eat Real Festival in Oakland is easy...
The Rancho Gordo Blog
Chile Farmers in the Yucatan
A legacy post from 2011: A Postcard from Yucatan Still in Merida with my friends and business partners, Yunuen and Gabriel of Xoxoc, we took a side trip with our...
In Praise of Oregano (and Thyme)
"There is something that fascinates me about the ecological chain that links soil moisture stress to plant tissues stress to stressed out humans. Let me put it in the most...
Muy Easy Cascabel Chile Sauce
This is one of the easiest salsas imaginable. It's nutty and has a very mild heat. I've been putting it in a squeeze bottle and smothering my eggs with it....
Beans on Toast Revisited
I don't have much to say about this except I remember living in London in 1981, being very poor and then introduced to British beans on toast. It was fine...
Pasta e Fagioli Salad
I've somehow avoided pasta salads most of my life. I'm sure there have been good ones I've missed, but for the most part, I think they can be pretty dreadful....
6 Essential Tips For Your Best Pasta e Fagioli
I feel like I've rediscovered an old friend who is doing better than ever. It's funny how foods come and go out of fashion. Raspberry vinaigrette, baked brie and Chicken...
Pasta e Fagioli: The Vegetarian Variation
The essence of Pasta e Fagioli is pasta and beans. If you want to make a vegetarian version, it's pretty easy. The pasta provides the texture, the beans and aromatics...
Vegetable Casseroles and Gratins
I continue to have fun with my oven. It's almost a honeymoon. As I've said before, I seem to cook almost everything stovetop, mostly in clay. I tend to like...
Pasta e Fagioli: The Beans
When you have a dish that is fairly simple, more than ever, the quality of the individual ingredients need to be excellent. This is easy with Pasta e Fagioli. You...
Pasta e Fagioli: Shapes
(UPDATE: Unfortunately, Baia Pasta is no more. They closed shop but left such a mark on us that we wanted to keep these posts referring to them. ) It would...