the sated palate in the kitchen

ingredients cake 1 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature 2 cups sugar (I prefer bakers’s sugar, aka caster sugar) 3 cups sifted unble...

My Nanaimo bars are loosely based on a recipe given to me by a real live Canadian.  Over time, I have tweaked the measurements and ingredie...

  This recipe is a slight adaptation of one found in ‘A Homemade Life’ by local author, Molly Wizenberg.  They taste best the second day, af...

A few years ago, I landed upon a recipe for fish in parchment or ‘poisson en papillotte’ as the French call it.  It was one of those recipe...

This decadent pie is a close interpretation of one served at Bar Tartine, hands down my favorite San Francisco restaurant.  There’s no deny...

serves 4 ingredients 1 – 3 pound free-range whole chicken  olive oil coarse sea salt (such as Maldon or fleur de sel ) freshly ground bl...

  serves 4 – 6 ingredients 4 bunches greens (such as dinosaur kale, chard or collard or a mixture) 1 large shallot, finely diced 1 –2 tab...

  yields 10 biscuits ingredients 1 – 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour 1/2 cup unbleached white flour 1 tablespoon + 1/4 teaspoon baking p...