Sonoma Harvest Foods Blog Posts

NIce and Easy Holiday Turnips With Cumin and Tomato

   Holiday turnips? Really? Turnips have been called a lot of things but never really anything associated with holidays or even a good time. Turnips are something the wicked step-mother usually forces someone to peel endlessly or eat endles...
by The Colors Of Indian Cooking on Dec 1, 2012

Mango and Shallot Thanksgiving Salad

   When I was a kid, there was only one sort of salad served by my Nana (mom's mom) at Thanksgiving Dinner. It was an avocado and grapefruit salad, and no matter what, that was always going to be the first thing served. My Nonna (dad's mom)...
by The Colors Of Indian Cooking on Nov 19, 2012

The Original Dessert, Ancient Roman Cheesecake

   When I originally heard the phrase, Ancient Roman Cheesecake, dessert was not the first thing that came to mind. Since I am of Italian ancestry on both sides of my family, (except for a Frenchman who crept into the mix from New Orleans d...
by The Colors Of Indian Cooking on Oct 14, 2012

Macerated Mango Sauce For Cheesecake

   Dang I like the way that sounds... macerated mango sauce. It reminds me of those rhymes when I was a kid... ya know, dirty little birdies feet. Okay, maybe it was just me. When I served the mango saffron cheesecake last week I wanted to...
by The Colors Of Indian Cooking on Oct 6, 2012

Winner, Winner, Indian Chicken Dinner!!

   Every summer two of our best friends go to their house in Finland to spend time with friends and family. They're always back before the Finnish winter starts and who can blame them. Sometimes while they're gone, some of their family come...
by The Colors Of Indian Cooking on Jul 14, 2012

The Mango, The Avocado and The Pom Part 1. Three Quick Fixes for the 4th of July

   I don't know how it happened so fast, but it seems like the 4th has just come up out of nowhere ready to bite me on the ass! We've been working hard to get the revisions on our pilot script turned in before all the stuff that's going to...
by The Colors Of Indian Cooking on Jul 1, 2012

A Guy Walks Into A Bakery. Coconut and Kaffir Lime Balsamic Granita

A guy usually walks  into a bar... and then a lot of things transpire. Most of them cannot be included here in a family-friendly blog about Indian food.  But this wasn't a bar the guy walked into, this was the Sonoma Basque Boulangerie wher...
by The Colors Of Indian Cooking on Jun 9, 2012
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