Galen Kusic, Editor The Benicia Community Action Council continues to positively impact lives by helping those in need. “You know we’re busy,” said Executive Director Viola Robertson, who has run the non-profit since 1980. “It’s like a one-stop shop.” The CAC features a beautiful commercial kitchen downstairs, where fresh meals are cooked five times a […]
From Heidi’s Kitchen: One tomato, two tomato, three tomato, more
Please pardon my rewriting of that famous children’s rhyme but I thought it fitting since your gardens are probably over run with juicy ripe tomatoes of all kinds. I have a friend who has a very green thumb who now has a plethora of various types of tomatoes from the exotic Cherokee purple to the […]
From Heidi’s Kitchen: Picnic salads
Here we are in the middle of August. It is a little cooler and damper in the morning. The air is hinting at fall. But it is not too late to have one last picnic before the kiddies go back to school and the days get shorter. I was at a free concert in Stern […]
From Heidi’s Kitchen: Special salads for summer
It is the point in the summer where the heat is getting old and you are running out if ideas for an interesting meal that does not call for turning on the oven. Well, how about a salad? Not the lettuce, tomato, cucumber, red onion buried in some store-bought Italian dressing type of salad– although […]
From Heidi’s Kitchen: Dreaming in Cuban
“Dreaming in Cuban” by Cristina Garcia, is the title of a wonderful book I read while recently on that island and how I felt for many weeks after taking a trip that was transforming in many ways especially for a culinary teacher. It was a daily adventure to explore what a wonderful country Cuba is […]
From Heidi’s Kitchen: Lemons and oranges and limes, oh my!
So here it is spring in Benicia and we are overrun with delicious citrus that the rest of the country would kill for. The oranges are easy, but what to do with all those lemons and limes? For this article we’re going to address lemons and more specifically the common Eureka and Meyer although the […]