Photography by Create+Gather
Grilling Recipes: Stone Fruit and Vanilla Ice Cream
Dessert generally isn’t the first thing that springs to mind when you think about cooking outdoors. But pastry chef Carissa Jones thinks a grilled dessert is a beautiful thing, especially during Sacramento’s scorching summers....
Grilling Recipes: Pork Belly Burnt Ends
Tyler Mentink is wild for his Big Green Egg, a spendy outdoor cooker that looks like an oversized Fabergé egg and has a cult following. Even though he has a backyard full of outdoor...
Grilling Recipes: Pork Chops With Jalapeño Glaze and Pickled Peaches
Seth Helmly calls himself “a hopeless romantic” when it comes to cooking over a wood fire. “I’m infatuated with everything fire,” says Helmly, who owns East Sac’s Joon Market with his fiancée, Saba Rahimian.At...
Grilling Recipes: Live-Fire Pork
There’s something elemental about cooking a whole animal over fire—it is, after all, how our caveman ancestors fed themselves. It’s also how Beau Fairbairn loves to cook. This former restaurant chef fell into live-fire...
Grilling Recipes: Calabrian Chili Potato Pizza
Local photographer and recipe developer Erin Alderson dove headfirst into outdoor pizza making while working at home during the pandemic.Her passion was largely born out of necessity: Fair Oaks, where she lives with her...
Grilling Recipes: Skirt Steak Tacos
Cecil Rhodes grew up grilling. As a little boy, he watched intently as his father mounded the charcoal in his trusty Weber, soaked it with lighter fluid and lit it with a crumpled newspaper....
Growing the Biz
Plant Daddy Co. proprietors Luke Swanson (seated) and Jake Dill told us a few months back that they were having a wild time keeping up with the demand for houseplants during the pandemic. Everyone,...
Home Cookin’ – Parsi Lamb
RAVIN PATEL comes from a family that simply loves lamb. For tenderness, he prefers to braise lamb rather than roast it. “I apply the flavors we love but cook it the way I would...
Home Cookin’ – Nikomi Udon
At their Southside izakaya restaurant, Binchoyaki, TOKIKO SAWADA and CRAIG TAKEHARA are known for their exquisite grilled foods. But when it comes to cooking for their family on cold winter days, they love noodles....
Home Cookin’ – Poached Pears with Mascarpone Whipped Cream
On cold, short winter days, we tend to turn to comfort food for, well, comfort. Food professionals—chefs, bakers, restaurant owners and the like—are no different. At this time of year, homey braises, filling pastas and old-fashioned desserts are on their...
