By Matthew Stafford
Christmas dinner is the great afterthought of the holiday season. So much time is spent shopping and card-writing and party-going and eggnog-sipping, there's barely enough time to think about what to eat for supper once the presents are unwrapped and the stockings are emptied. Choosing a holiday menu under these circumstances can be problematic, especially if you're opting for something on the traditional side. In my family we've tried standing rib roast (awesome), baked ham
If you have a Visa Signature rewards card, Visa, the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, and almost 50 Bay Area restaurants have cooked up a little present for you: a nice little pamphlet of crab recipes, titled SF Chefs. Food. Wine.: Dungeness Crab. Inside you'll find recipes from A (Angel Hair Crab Lasagna, from Andrea Froncillo, executive chef/owner of Franciscan Crab Restaurant) to Z (well, W: Wok Roasted Ginger-Scallion Dungeness Crab, from George Chen, chef/owner of Shanghai 1930). The res
elraigon.comSpring is here, and the city's farmers markets are brimming with fecund, fragrant, Technicolor abondanza: needle-thin asparagus fresh from the Delta; stalks of Pescadero rhubarb and Half Moon Bay snap peas; a dazzling array of Watsonville basil; loquats and fava beans and haricots vert from the Central Valley; the cantaloupe, avocados and Valencia oranges of the south; Sebastopol currants and Santa Rosa zucchini fresh as a Wine Country sunrise.
So what does one do with all this sus
In 1988, Brian Boitano was an unlikely cold warrior in a sequined shirt, dispatching Iron Curtain figure skaters (and, for that matter, Canadians) en route to a gold medal. Now the San Francisco skater has become the unlikely host of a cooking show, the Food Network announced today. Disbelieving viewers will watch, open-mouthed, as the lithe skater hosts fabulous get-togethers in his San Francisco home and shares his recipes for dishes such as bourbon bacon apple tarts or crab and avocado crosti
m kasahara/FlickrDivali central: Dosa on Fillmore.Dosa is celebrating Divali (aka Diwali or Deepavaili), the Festival of Lights, a holiday as important to Hindus as Christmas is to Episcopalians (okay, other Christians too). Starting tonight, Dosa is offering special Divali dinners at both locations (995 Valencia at 21st St., and 1700 Fillmore at Post); they continue through Sunday, Oct. 18 (Divali itself runs Saturday through Monday). Dosa chef Anjan Mitra's holiday menu includes chickpe
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