Sara's Kitchen

One thing I don’t talk about much on this blog is my grocery shopping preferences. I try to buy locally grown food as much as possible. My g...

Nearly a year ago, I bought a jar of preserved lemons for this recipe . There were two lemons in the jar, and the second lemon has been sitt...

This salad was loosely based off this recipe from Tyler Florence. Obviously, one major discrepancy is that Tyler's recipe calls for tun...

This is my version of a recipe from Vegetable Harvest. The recipe called for monkfish tails, but my grocery store didn't have any today,...

My grandmother is in town from Los Angeles - she doesn't get to sample my cooking very often, so I put together a meal for her that show...

Yet another recipe from my favorite cookbook of the moment, Everyday Food . The recipe actually calls for farfalle, but I already had penne...

I wanted to do something a little different for dinner. I hadn't cooked shellfish before, and mussels were on sale, so I decided to do a...

This recipe is from the Mustards Napa Valley Grill cookbook. Given that it's been too cold out to grill, I used a grill pan for the tuna...

I wanted to make a sauce with some tropical elements to go with this Hawaiian ono. Here's what I came up with: Ono with pineapple cilan...

Tonight we had swordfish in a tomato and leek sauce. I sauteed some chopped leeks in a little olive oil, salt and pepper. After the leeks ha...