Category Archives: Cooking & Chefs
Celebrate National Peanut Month with sweet recipes
One way to celebrate National Peanut Month during March: bake up a treat that includes peanut butter! Of course, there are lots and lots of recipes out there. There are some on the National Peanut Board web site, including a … Continue reading
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Tagged after-school snacks, baking, Cooking, Dessert, National Peanut Month, Pillsbury, recipes
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Live cooking challenge at Santa Cruz museum benefits vibrant high school culinary program
Tickets are going fast for “Fire It Up!,” an upcoming Santa Cruz event with a culinary student showcase and a live chef competition, with the fun-sounding evening benefiting Santa Cruz’s vibrant high school culinary ROP (Regional Occupational Program). The event … Continue reading
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Tagged benefit, Chef Andrea Mollenauer, chefs, Cooking, Fire It Up!, Front Street Kitchen, Lifestyle Culinary Arts, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz MAH
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Heart-healthy fish at Whole Foods Market for Valentine’s Day and beyond
Whole Foods Market has started carrying a new fish called paiche, which is a whitefish from the Amazon. After trying a complimentary sample, I wanted to pass along some information about paiche (pronounced “pie-chay”). I also have a recipe to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, fish, giveaway, National Heart Month, recipe, seafood, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day 2014, Whole Foods Market
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Mushroom cooking demos & activities for kids at Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
Mushroom fan alert: the 40th Annual Santa Cruz Fungus Fair is this weekend — you can watch cooking demos, buy mushroom-related food, see lots of unusual mushrooms, and more. The event is at Louden Nelson Community Center in downtown Santa … Continue reading
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Tagged Cooking, events, family-friendly, India Joze, kids, mushrooms, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Fungus Fair, Santa Cruz restaurants
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Upcoming Santa Cruz restaurant Assembly hires veteran San Francisco chef
The team behind Santa Cruz’s The Penny Ice Creamery and The Picnic Basket are opening their first full-service restaurant – Assembly – in a few weeks. They just hired Carlo Espinas as Executive Chef, and this is great news for … Continue reading
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Tagged Assembly, California Culinary Academy, Chef Carlo Espinas, Penny Ice Creamery, restaurant news, restaurants, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz restaurant news
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Santa Cruz’s Lifestyle Culinary Arts offers tasty Thanksgiving food to serve at home
Lifestyle Culinary Arts chef/owner Andrea Mollenauer has announced her 2013 Thanksgiving menu, and she’s taking orders until Friday, Nov. 22. See below for menu highlights. Mollenauer is a graduate of Cabrillo College’s Culinary Arts program, and a talented chef. … Continue reading
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Tagged catering, Lifestyle Culinary Arts, Santa Cruz, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving food
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Tickets available for Friday’s debut Pino Alto Farm to Table Dinner in Aptos
As of Tuesday Oct. 29, there were still tickets available for the Nov. 1, 2013 Farm to Table Dinner at Pino Alto at Cabrillo College. Executive Chef Beverlie Terra, who was with Santa Cruz’s Chaminade Resort for more than 20 … Continue reading
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Tagged Aptos, Cabrillo College, chefs, farm, farm to table dinner, Guglielmo Winery, Pino Alto Restaurant, Wine, Yellow Wall Farm
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Dairy-free Halloween recipe for Coffee Toffee from Santa Cruz chef Lauren Hoover-West
Santa Cruz chef Lauren Hoover-West has graciously shared her recipe for Coffee Toffee, a yummy dairy-free treat for Halloween or any occasion. According to the chef, half of America can’t eat dairy, and of course those folks need recipes too! … Continue reading
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Tagged dairy-free, desserts, Halloween, low glycemic index, New Leaf Community Markets, New Leaf Market, recipes, snacks, toffee, treats
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Chomping Monster Cookies and other Halloween recipes
Looking for easy Halloween recipes? Here are two provided by Pillsbury, with a link to one additional recipe. I’ll publish at least one more—including a dairy-free treat from a local Santa Cruz chef—in the next few days. Chomping Monsters (see … Continue reading