Cucina Testa Rossa

Salsa y Salsa v2.0

We're Back! Every Friday it's Salsa y Salsa (y Cocktail!) with Laura y Manuel!


 

THIS Friday, Nov 27 @ 5-6pm PT - Salsa y Salsa v2.0: REGISTER

• Cocktail: Spiced Persimmon Bourbon Old Fashioned
  
  • Ingredients:  fuyu persimmons, maple syrup, cinnamon stick, star anise, bourbon, lemon juice, orange juice, sparkling water
• Salsa: Pumpkin Seed Salsa
  • Ingredients: pumpkin seeds, tomatoes, habanero, cilantro, chives, salt 
• Salsa: Manuel Velazquez, award-wining dance instructor & professional dancer will teach us all how to salsa! Ay caramba! 

We are SO looking forward to salsa-ing all together again on the interwebs very soon! We'll be hosting these every Friday, so come work of all that stuffing and then join us the rest of the year. I'll be posting the registration and recipes for the rest of the year shortly. 

Besos y un gran embrazo,
Laura y Manuel xo

So wonderful seeing everyone again with a cameo from Mum down under and the awesome team from MEA!



...and here is a picture of Lynne's US Thanksgiving in Australia apple pie! Just beautiful!

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Quarantine Community Cooking v10.0

Welcome to Quarantine Community Weekend Marathon v10.0

QUARANTINE COOKING IS BACK for ONE *LAST* MARATHON WEEKEND as Quarantine Cooking is taking a HIATUS! We'll be BACK LATER THIS SUMMER but this weekend we are going to COOK, to COCKTAIL, to CALISTHENIC, to CAVORT and to CRUSH the CORONA! I hope you will join us!

Hello my fellow Quarantiners! Thank you so much for zooming in to our Quarantine Community. In this time of having to be apart, it's more important than ever to come together to connect and support and celebrate each other. I hope to see all your beautiful faces this weekend so we can do just that!

Attached below is the schedule and registration links. Recipes we are cooking this weekend, along with links to buy the wines and spirits are also linked below. Please remember to register for each zoom session!

Friday, May 29 @ 5pm PT - Quarantine Cocktails & Quarantine Calisthenics & Quarantine Cooking: Register

• Cocktail: Charlie O’Connell from Frísco Brandy 
  
  • Cocktail: Presidio Punch
  • Buy Frisco Brandy here: Bitters & Bottles
  • Ingredients: Frísco (or other Brandy), pineapple juice, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup or agave, Champagne or sparkling, salt
• Calisthenics: Special Guest: Manuel Velazquez, award-wining, global fitness professional.
  • Get ready to DANCE! 
• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  • Recipe: Gougères (OMG!!!!!) 
  • Ingredients: butter, water, flour, eggs, Comte or Gruyère cheese, thyme, salt

 
     

Saturday, May 30 @ 4pm PT - Quarantine Cooking & Quarantine Corking: Register

• Corking Special Guest: Chris Howell and Katie Lazar, Cain Winery
  
  • Wine: NV15 Cain Cuvée - to order pls click here or call Matt at 707-963-1616 to order
• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  
  • Recipe: Halibut a la Veracruzana over Rice
  • Recipe: Salsa a la Veracruzana
  • Recipe: Quick Pickled Jalapeños
  • Recipe: Martha Stewart's White Rice
  • Recipe: Julia Child's Berry Clafoutis
• Community: MooCow Market

 
                     

 

Sunday, May 31 - Quarantine Cooking with Real Moms & Real Chefs v7.0: Register

• Chocolate Explosion! We have had so much fun quarantine cooking with you through Real Moms Real Chefs the past few months and now that the SIP mandate is lifting and the great outdoors is calling, we thought it deserved a celebration! We will be cooking up lots of chocolate - Chocolate Crack (wait until you see it!), Chocolate Truffles and a Flourless Chocolate Cake and a celebration wouldn't be complete without a chocolate cocktail!
  
  You're welcome to logon at 10:30 for coffee talk and hang out with the moms, catch up on the week, check in and see how everyone is doing.
  
  • Recipe: Chocolate Crack   
  • Recipe: Chocolate Truffles 
  • Recipe: Cockeye Cake  
  • Recipe: Chocolate Martini 
  • Recipe: Kladdkaka Cake
  • Tips and tricks and can't live without kitchen hacks

  

Looking forward to seeing you on the interwebs this weekend. Thank you so very much to all who have participated! The connection and support and love the past ten, yes TEN!, weeks reaching across these zooms on the information superhighway has been heartwarming.

xo Laura

PS: THE LOOK ON MY FACE when Karen Hentoff told me she didn't like my chicken recipe so SHE FED IT TO HER DOG who loved it! 😳 thanks for the screenshot Ken Kane!

Quarantine Community Cooking v9.0

Welcome to Quarantine Community Weekend Marathon v9.0

QUARANTINE COOKING IS BACK for another marathon weekend! This weekend we are going to COOK, to COCKTAIL, to CALISTHENIC, to CAVORT and to CRUSH the CORONA! I hope you will join us!

Hello my fellow Quarantiners! Thank you so much for zooming in to our Quarantine Community. In this time of having to be apart, it's more important than ever to come together and support and celebrate each other. I hope to see all your beautiful faces this weekend so we can do just that!

Attached below is the schedule and registration links. Recipes we are cooking this weekend, along with links to buy the wines coming shortly. Please remember to register for each zoom session!


Friday, May 22 @ 5pm PT - Quarantine Cocktails & Quarantine Calisthenics & Quarantine Cooking: Register

• Cocktail: Cabo Green Margarita
  
  • Ingredients: Silver Tequila, pineapple juice, cucumber, cilantro, lime, agave, tajin 
• Calisthenics: Special Guest: Manuel Velazquez, award-wining, global fitness professional
• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  • Recipe: Ceviche 
  • Recipe: Vinaigrette & Chimichurri - we're talking all things vinaigrette, marinade, and sauces
• Creativity: Leslie McGuirk, world-renowned astrologer, author, artist, creative expert and TED Talk speaker!

Saturday, May 23 @ 4pm PT - Quarantine Cooking & Quarantine Corking: Register

• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  
  • Recipe: Whole Roasted San Francisco Trap Caught Black Cod! from Water2Table
  • Ingredients: whole fish, garlic, shallots, basil, lemons
  • Recipe: Nobu's Miso Sauce
  • Recipe: Apricot Hazelnut Brandy Tart
• Corking Special Guest: Mimi Gatens, Treasury Wine Estates & Beringer
  
  • Video: As we can’t take a live tour of the property at this time, let’s start with a  virtual tour of Beringer Vineyards with our winemaker, Mark Beringer.  As the great, great grandson of our founder, Mark offers a tour and a bit of Beringer history.  You can see the beauty of our grounds and the spirit of our legacy in Napa Valley. 
  • Wine: 2018 Beringer Private Reserve Chardonnay Napa Valley
  • Wine: 2018 Beringer Luminus Chardonnay 2018
  • Wine: 2017 Beringer Napa Valley Chardonnay 2017
• QuaranFish: Andi Conte, Water2Table
• Community: Restaurant Employee Relief Fund - Don't miss Guy Fieri and Bill Murray in their Nacho Average Showdown!

   
 

Sunday, May 24 - Quarantine Cooking with Real Moms & Real Chefs v6.0: Register                             

• One Pot Wonders! When you are in a rush and need a one pot/one pan meal, it's Real Moms and Real Chefs to the rescue. Throw everything in one pot, cook up a fabulous dinner quickly and easily with only one pot to clean! Check out our recipes below, gather your ingredients over the next few days and zoom in from your kitchen on Sunday, May 24th at 11 am PST for some great meals and fun!
  
  You're welcome to logon at 10:30 for coffee talk and hang out with the moms, catch up on the week, check in and see how everyone is doing.
  
  • Recipe: Paella Valencian Style 
  • Recipe: Pasta Bake
  • Recipe: Sheet-Pan Chicken with Jammy Tomatoes & Pancetta
  • Tips and tricks and can't live without kitchen hacks

Looking forward to seeing you on the interwebs this weekend. Thank you so very much to all who have participated! The connection and support and love the past ten, yes TEN!, weeks reaching across these zooms on the information superhighway has been heartwarming.

xo Laura

Quarantine Community Cooking v7.0

Welcome to Quarantine Community Weekend Marathon v7.0



Hello my fellow Quarantiners! Thank you so much for zooming in to our Quarantine Community. In this time of having to be apart, it's more important than ever to come together and support and celebrate each other. I hope to see all your beautiful faces this weekend so we can do just that!

Attached below is the schedule, registration links and all the recipes we are cooking this weekend, along with links to buy the spirits and wines. Many more details are on the registration pages so please remember to register for each zoom session!

Friday, May 8 @ 5pm PT - Quarantine Cocktails & Quarantine Calisthenics & Quarantine Cooking: Register

• Cocktail: Prohibition Spirits, Mint Melon Gin
• Ingredients: gin, melon, lemon, lime, club soda
• Calisthenics: Special Guest: Manuel Velazquez, award-wining, global fitness professional
• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  • Recipe: Camarones Borrachos - Bourbon Flambéed Shrimp in Garlic Cream Sauce
  • Ingredients: shrimp, garlic, tarragon, bourbon, cream
  • Shrimp from Water2Table
• Quarantunes: to be confirmed - the show must go on!
  
  

   
        

Saturday, May 9 @ 4pm PT - Quarantine Cooking & Quarantine Corking & Quarantine Quailing & Quarantine Community: Register

• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  
  • Recipe: Stuffed Quail (quail, leeks, mushrooms, lemon thyme, garlic, rustic bread, red wine (cheap pinot), cream)
  • Recipe: Pommes Purée (yukon gold potatoes, butter, milk and more butter…. )
  • Recipe: Whole Wheat Brown Butter Shortbread with Orange Chantilly Cream and Boozy Berries
• Community: Bob Klein, Community Grains
• Quailing Special Guest: Brent Wolfe, Wolfe Ranch Quail
• Corking Special Guest: Sara Beer, True North Imports & Nicolas-Jay
  
  • SPECIAL BUNDLE: 2017 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir & 2018 Affinites Chardonnay
• QuaranTunes: Jazz vocalist, singer, songwriter, guitarist Deborah Winters!
• QuaranGood: Frontline Foods in partnership with World Central Kitchen

     

 

Sunday, May 10 - Real Moms & Real Chefs is taking a break!

• Mother's Day in Quarantine? Real Moms and Real Chefs to the rescue. We are taking a break to celebrate Mother's Day but here is the link to a recipe that is fast, fun, easy and can get the kids involved! 
  
  • Recipe: Mini Dutch Babies  

Looking forward to seeing you on the interwebs this weekend. Thank you so very much to all who have participated! The connection and support and love the past eight weeks reaching across these zooms on the information superhighway has been heartwarming.

xo Laura

 

 

Quarantine Community Cooking v5.0

Welcome to Quarantine Community Weekend Marathon v5.0

Hello my fellow Quarantiners! Thank you so much for zooming in to our Quarantine Community. In this time of having to be apart, it's more important than ever to come together and support and celebrate each other. I hope to see all your beautiful faces this weekend so we can do just that!

Attached below is the schedule, registration links and all the recipes we are cooking this weekend, along with links to buy the spirits and wines. Many more details are on the registration pages so please remember to register for each zoom session!

Friday, April 24 @ 5pm PT - Quarantine Cocktails & Quarantine Calisthenics & Quarannouncement: Register

• Cocktail: The Paradiso with St. Blaise Vodka from Old World Spirits
• Calisthenics Special Guest: Manuel Velazquez, award-wining, global fitness professional

Saturday, April 25 @ 4pm PT - Quarantine Cooking & Quarantine Corking & Quarantunes: Register

• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  
  • Recipe: Roast Pork Chops with Caramelized Onions and Pears
  • Recipe: Chocolate Truffles
• Corking Special Guest: Katy Wilson, LaRue Winery
• Corking Special Guest: Peter Palmer, Rent-a-Sommie 
  • 2018 LaRue Chardonnay, Charles Heintz Vineyard, Sonoma Coast
  • 2016 LaRue Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast
  • Read about Katy in Forbes Magazine
• Quarantunes Special Guest: Nina Storey, actress, musician, composer, singer, ray of sunshine 

Sunday, April 26 @ 10:30am PT - Quarantine Cooking with Real Moms & Real Chefs v3.0: Register 

• Cooking: What Came First...Chicken 4 ways and a few more
  
  • Recipe: Laura's World Famous Roast Chicken
  • Recipe: Karin's Legs -n- Leeks
  • Recipe: Lindsay’s Spicy Honey Brushed Chicken Thighs
  • Recipe: Mary's Mango Chicken

Looking forward to seeing you on the interwebs this weekend. Thank you so very much to all who have participated! The connection and support and love the past six weeks reaching across these zooms on the information superhighway has been heartwarming. xo Laura

 

Quarantine Community Cooking v4.0

Welcome to Quarantine Community Weekend Marathon v4.0

Hello my fellow Quarantiners! Thank you so much for zooming in to our Quarantine Community. In this time of having to be apart, it's more important than ever to come together and support and celebrate each other. I hope to see all your beautiful faces this weekend so we can do just that!

Attached below is the schedule, registration links and all the recipes we are cooking this weekend, along with links to buy the wine. Many more details are on the registration pages so please remember to register for each zoom session!

Friday, April 17 @ 5pm PT - Quarantine Cocktails & Calisthenics & Quarantunes: Register

• Cocktail: The Handsome Johnny in honor of John Prine, we'll toast with his signature cocktail
• Quarantunes Special Guest: Louise Goffin Grammy nominated writer & producer
• Calisthenics Special Guest: Manuel Velazquez, award-wining fitness professional 

Saturday, April 18 @ 4pm PT - Quarantine Cooking & Corking & Quarantunes: Register

• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa
  • Recipe: Apricot-Chili Smoked Salmon 
  • Recipe: Jasmin Mint Rice
  • Recipe: Quick Chocolate Crack
• Quarantunes Special Guest: Esther Tonea, Soprano, SF Opera
• Corking Special Guest:  Thomas Bertrand, Domaine Rouge-Bleu – LIVE from FRANCE!
  • Link to buy tonight’s wine: 2018 Dentelle Rosé
  • Link to buy all wines: Domaine Rouge-Bleu Wines

Sunday, April 19 @ 11am PT - Real Moms & Real Chefs v2.0 - Quarantine Cooking & Calisthenics: Register   

• Cooking: Laura Pauli, Cucina Testa Rossa & Real Moms and Real Chefs
  
  • Recipe: Roasted Tomato Soup 5 ways & The Best Grilled Cheese on the Planet
  • Recipe: Folsom Fabulous Spaghetti Sauce
  • Tips: Easy prep for the week
• Calisthenics Special Guest: Kitchen Counter Yoga: Cathleen Murakami

Looking forward to seeing you on the interwebs this weekend. Thank you so very much to all who have participated! The connection and support and love the past four weeks on these zooms has been so heartwarming. xo Laura 

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!

Amen to that! :) This picture always reminds me of the Seinfeld episode when Kramer sunbathes in butter :) And here's some cocktail trivia for you on the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. It's actually very heartwarming and I'll take any good news I can get these days.

Bon Appetit and a very Happy Thanksgiving to you all! May we all have much to be grateful for... I know I do! Meilleurs voeux de San Francisco ~ Best wishes from San Francisco. Laura

What the hell am I going to cook for dinner? Black Bean Soup!

You'd think a professionally trained French cook wouldn't have to agonize over what to cook for dinner?! Au contraire mon frere. I do it every night. I open the fridge. Then I open the freezer. Then I open the cupboards. Then I go back to the fridge and rotate through at least 3 times. My nightly ritual unless something is sitting there on the 2nd shelf greeting me when I open the door. I'd prefer to shop every day or ever 2 days like I did back when I lived you-know-where but I don't have my farmers market across the street 3 days a week, and nor do I have my baker, butcher and fishmonger a block away, but I digress... So what to do on a week night when Heroes is about to come on and no time, patience, nor ingredients to make a full on meal. One of my many tried and true standbys is black bean soup and it's about as easy as it gets.

• 1 can black beans (I love Progresso black beans)
• 1/2 can (1 cup) chicken broth
• plain yogurt
• pine nuts, toasted (or a tad burned as i did tonight - still trying to figure out my electric stove. yes electric! ugh)

1. drain can of beans - no need to save the liquid, it's gross imho.
2. put beans in a pot on medium high heat and add the broth. bring to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes (or longer if you want a thicker consistency)
3. turn off the heat. blend with an immersion blender or puree in a blender or cuisinart
4. garnish with a dollop of plain yogurt and some toasted (not burned!) pine nuts

Bon appetit! Just in time for Heroes :)

What the hell am I going to cook for Thanksgiving?!

My kitchen counter strewn with stacks of magazines and cookbooks that haunt me every time I walk by them. Now I know I could simply look at the post just below this one for a plethora of great Thanksgiving meal ideas but you see I've already MADE all those. I need something NEW or I wouldn't have anything to write about much less lose out on the opportunity for a culinary challenge. I usually regret those around 2am the night before as I start stressing out about burning the turkey beyond recognition or forgetting a major ingredient...like the turkey! I'll let you know what I come up with as soon as I do... which will probably be somewhere around 3pm on Thursday! Stay tuned...