austin now, born and raised in San Francisco, California
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Best meal I ever ate:
I just made my grandmother's piñon from memory and it wasn't quite 100%, but connected me to her memory enough to earn the current Best Meal designation. Gonna get it to 100%
My current drink of choice:
Coppola Rosso - always a reliable blend that drinks easy and delights.
I really wish I could:
bake bread-still-but with Easy Tiger in town, I don't have to have Acme FedExed to me!
My "Go-to" dinner party dish:
Lasagne - homemade pasta, homemade ricotta, homemade pork ragu, homemade sausage, homemade meatballs, and good fresh mozzerella - salad of red leaf lettuce, arugula, avocado, blanched asapragus with a mustard vinaigrette. Bread - the best available, since although i can make a lot of things I can't bake bread to save my life.
My favorite comfort food:
mofongo, asopao, a farm fresh egg frizzled in olive oil, topped with sea salt, with a slice of good, honest bread (as mfk would say - and now reliably available from Easy Tiger in Austin - oh, that levain...)
My top 5 favorite restaurants:
again, just to date: bacco-sf, uchi/ko-austin, alta taberna paco meralgo-bcn, quality seafood-austin, lily's(for soup)-austin, incanto-sf,
My most tattered cookbooks:
Joy, Marcella, Jacques, and recently , the ethnic ones handed down to me - Puerto Rican, Finnish, Italian...
