The Search for Rennet

At last, at last, I’ve finally found it: rennet! Believe me when I say I have been looking eeeeeverywhere for this elusive bacteria. It is in fact the final ingredient I need to make real cheese. I picked up the citric acid, another vital ingredient, at Parkside Farmers Market for like $2 and then will stop [...]

Heart Healthy Salad for Dinner

See—Little Baker does healthy too Fast and good for your heart. Enjoy! Two Heart Healthy Salads (recipe by me) printable recipe Serves 1. Broccoli-Tuna Salad 2 tbsp dijon mustard splash balsamic vinegar and extra virgin olive oil 1/4 cup red onion, finely chopped 1- 6 oz can tuna, drained 1/2 cup frozen broccoli florets, defrosted [...]

Torta della Nonna (Italian Grandmother’s Ricotta Tart)

This is bad, and I mean real bad. Because it is too good—too good for New Year resolutions, too good to for a nondescript name like “Grandma’s Pie” and seriously too good to resist. My 2011 began with such promise. After proclaiming it The Year of the rabbit Me, I made goals like “no more [...]

Homemade Ricotta Cheese: It Can Be Done! (Even in the Microwave)

Whole Foods makes me mad sometimes. How do they get away with charging people $5.99 for 16 oz of ricotta cheese? It’s just milk heated with a little vinegar. Sheesh! Well, I can do that. So I did. And it’s so simple! I googled around for recipes for a few minutes until coming across this [...]

Taste Testing

My friend Elizabeth is a brilliant chef in the making. And as it is her dream to one day open her own Peruvian restaurant, she’s decided to hold monthly dinners to test-run dishes and drinks for friends. Taste testing? I’m happy to lend my taste-buds to the cause! (^_^) Last week was the first of [...]

Cotton Soft Japanese Cheesecake

Calling this a cheesecake is a bit misleading. It’s really more like a cream cheese pound cake in flavor and somewhere in between pound cake and angel food cake in texture. It’s light and airy like a souffle and modest in sweetness and cream cheese flavor. Quick to put together too! I’ve noted all my “tips” [...]

Hello, Spring! Frittata with Radish-Red Cabbage Salad

Yay—Spring has come to San Francisco at last. And so has my first CSA box. (There are a lot of things I could write about CSA, but I’m too lazy to get into it right now. OK, I’m testing it out for a month. I know it’s good for the environment, good for the farmer, [...]

Coconut Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

Normally, when I think “cupcakes”, I think about those gross, flavorless, diabetes II-inducing sugar bombs you get from Safeway. I’ve eaten my fair share of them at friend’s birthday parties growing up and as an adult had pretty much decided to avoid them altogether. That is, until I tried these…Martha Stewart’s dreamy, creamy Coconut Cupcakes. [...]

Lucuma Cheesecake

I made this amazing cheesecake TWO WEEKS AGO, but never got around to posting the recipe. Why? Because my life has been crazy (not fun-crazy; I mean, crazy-crazy). I was moving out, then I wasn’t. Now I moving out for sure, which means I have to find a sub-letter my roommate and her boyfriend approve [...]

Peruvian Style Arroz con Mariscos with Papas a la Huancaina y Salsa de Cebolla Peruana

Traditional arroz con pollo is made with chicken—duh— but I adapted it for my two hungry Pescatarian girls at our monthly roommate dinner. I have Dennis’ mom, Ana, to thank for the recipes and mi Guapito to thank for the translations! For more Peruvian recipes, Yanuq is a great source. I found the recipe for [...]