Placer County is embracing its agricultural attributes. Agricultural Commissioner Joshua Huntsinger encouraged the Board of Supervisors to select a contractor who will do agricultural marketing for Placer County. After a competitive recruitment process, Merlot Marketing of Sacramento was selected from 10 applicants. The Board of Supervisors has approved the $79,995 contract, which will run from […]
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By Huffington Post Don’t stick that onion in the fridge. You might think that you’re being resourceful. You might think you’re stretching your dollars by prolonging the life of your produce (which, in a way, you kind of are). But what you’re really doing is making them taste worse — a lot worse. If you […]
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By Kathryn Reed Breakfast is not my favorite meal to eat or fix. But for some reason when it’s fixed for me, whatever is on the plate seems to taste better. Maybe that’s because it’s not my usual cup of coffee and banana. When I was in the Bay Area earlier this year staying with […]
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Tickets are on sale for the annual Passport wine event in El Dorado County. The event often sells out. This year the dates are April 14-15 and April 21-22 from 11am until 5pm. Wine lovers can enjoy 32 award-winning wineries. New to the event this year are Synapse, Shadow Ranch, Nello Olivo, Cielo Estates, Skinner […]
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By Kathryn Reed While spring is a week away based on the calendar, one can never really depend on that to know what the weather will be like in Lake Tahoe. That’s also why it seems like hot drinks are something that can be enjoyed about 10 months out of the year here. I spent […]
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Get your tickets for a fun-filled night of all-you-can-eat Dungeness crab, live auction action and Truckee camaraderie. The 2012 Rotary Crab & Pasta Feed will be at the new Truckee Community Recreation Center on March 24. All proceeds benefit Sierra Expeditionary Learning School, a public charter school in the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District. SELS […]
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By Kathryn Reed It wasn’t until I started typing the recipe that I figured out why I had so many limes when Pam and Darla went home. I forgot to cut them into wedges and put them on the plate. Oops. Luckily, that was on of those cooking oops that don’t really matter. But I […]
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By Kathryn Reed When I first heard this is national Frozen Food month I didn’t think much about it. I didn’t think I ate many frozen foods. Then I looked in the freezer. For the most part it’s leftovers that are in there. There’s also coffee, tater tots, butter, chocolate chips and fake hamburgers. From […]
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By Kathryn Reed Drinking iced cocktails in winter is not my normal routine. But sometimes it’s necessary when the fruit in the drink is ripe this time of year. That’s why kiwi mojitos were being concocted in our kitchen last weekend. Plus, I know my sister likes mojitos and has experience making them. And they […]
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By Paula Forbes, Eater Beard Award winning chef Traci Des Jardins has four restaurants — Jardinière, Mijita Cocina Mexicana, and Public House in San Francisco, and Manzanita at the Ritz-Carlton at Northstar — and two cookbook collections: one antique, one modern. (She is also working on a cookbook of her own to be released in […]
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