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Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–glad you’re here! Today, I’m sharing my version of Bolognese sauce, which after doing some research, I’m titling Bolognese Sauce a la Keri because it doesn’t fit neatly into a category, and I’m actually ok with that. Turns out, neither do I 😉 I have been having a hard time getting back into the swing of writing and publishing. The mountain of work that resulted from our …

Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! Today, I’m going to feature a recipe for vodka sauce, which is the next in my series on tomato sauce, one of the foundational sauces of California. But first… I was shocked to see that it’s been a whole month since I last put up a post. In that time, in a nutshell, I was getting ready to take a two-week road trip …

Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! Today, I’m continuing my exploration of tomato sauce, the fifth of the sauces I have designated as the “mother” sauces of California Cuisine. Yesterday, I shared the recipe for long simmered, basic Italian tomato sauce. It is a beautiful sauce that’s super versatile: Today, I’m sharing my recipe for French Tian, which uses the gorgeous Italian tomato sauce as a base: For those …

Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! Today, I’m continuing my series on the foundational sauces of California Cuisine. Having covered mayonnaise, vinaigrette, salsa and pesto sauces in previous posts, I moved on to tomato sauce last week. Tomatoes are an incredibly important crop in California. In fact, California produces between 90 and 95% of the processing tomatoes for the US, and about 1/3 of the world’s processing tomatoes, which …

Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! Today, I’m continuing my series on the foundational sauces of California Cuisine. In posts over the last few months, we have explored the first four of the seven sauces that I consider to the be “mother” sauces of California, which are: mayonnaise, vinaigrette, pesto, salsa, tomato, soy sauce and Hollandaise. Yesterday, kicked off our exploration of tomato sauce by sharing my recipe for …

Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–I’m so glad you’re here! If you have been following this blog, you will know that several months ago, I decided that, like French Cuisine, California Cuisine also needed to have its own set of “mother” sauces. Since that list doesn’t exist, I decided to make one myself. My choices for sauces include mayonnaise, vinaigrette, pesto, salsa, tomato sauce, Hollandaise sauce and soy sauce. In previous posts, …

Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! Today, I am giving a final salute to salsas. My entires for the last few weeks on salsas have, unfortunately, been sporadic due to my health issues, but I’m hoping those are mostly behind me now so I can once again focus on cooking, writing and continuing to fully explore California Cuisine. For the last few months, I have been exploring the “foundational …

Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! Today, I’m continuing my exploration of the “foundational sauces” of California Cuisine. French Cuisine has seven “mother sauces” that anchor it, but California Cuisine has none; I think it should. Therefore, over the last few months, I have been sharing what I consider to be California Cuisine’s “mother sauces,” which are: mayonnaise, vinaigrette, pesto, salsa, soy sauce, Hollandaise and tomato sauce. In previous …

Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook–so glad you’re here! It’s almost summer! I’m so grateful that I am healthy enough to enjoy the simple pleasures of this most magical of seasons. If you’re anything like me, you remember the giddiness of the last day of school. I always loved it when school ended on a Thursday so that sleeping in on Friday, which should have been a school day, felt like a …

Hello and welcome back to The Stone Soup Cook. I’m so glad you’re here! For the last few months, I have used my blog to post articles about the foundational sauces of California Cuisine. Since California Cuisine doesn’t have an official set of foundational sauces like French Cuisine does, and I thought it should, I have chosen the following sauces: mayonnaise, vinaigrette, pesto, salsa, soy sauce, Hollandaise and tomato sauce. I started my exploration of …