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In Peach Heaven
A fragrant, sweet, juicy peach is best eaten as it is—no baking, no topping, just picked ripe from the tree and eaten slightly warm, in big slurpy bites. That’s pretty much what I thought until a...
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Join the Second Annual Sunset Eat Fresh Challenge!
Sunset’s Fresh Food Challenge 2014, January 6-10 After months of holiday treats, meals, and drinks, we’re ready to hit reset and eat a little better—without denying ourselves real food! Starting...
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Links We Love: Little Projects, Big Payoffs
When you’re feeling too busy to keep up with the pace of life, decorating and cooking projects tend to fall squarely into the “nice to have” (rather than “must”) pile. But what if those nice-to-haves...
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Thanksgiving Potluck: Mashed Potatoes
This month, we are cooking our way through Deborah Madison’s freshly revised New Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone. Senior travel editor Andrea Minarcek takes a bold stab at this Thanksgiving classic....
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Thanksgiving Potluck: Roasted Cauliflower with Turmeric, Spice, and Cilantro
This month, we’re cooking our way through Deborah Madison’s freshly revised New Vegetarian Cooking For Everyone. Senior web editor Jessica Mordo takes a stab at this healthy side dish. I’m kind of a...
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Links We Love: Ultra-Stylish Thanksgiving
Here are some brilliant ways to make Thanksgiving as much a feast for the eyes as it is for…well, you know. Photo by Instagram user cindymindypindy, courtesy of CasaSugar.com Set an Instagram-worthy...
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Sunset Eat Fresh, Day 1: Vowing to cook every meal = prep, prep, prep!
Sunset’s red-quinoa bowl with swiss chard and poached egg—one of the many recipes I’m vowing to master this year! Who: Andrea Minarcek, Senior Travel Editor This year, I’m determined to: cook more...
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Eat Fresh, Day 3: Home Cooking Every Meal from Scratch
Sunset‘s grilled chicken and kale salad with tahini lemon dressing Who: Andrea Minarcek, senior travel editor I’m attempting to: cook more, starting with a two-week streak of preparing every meal, at...
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Chefs for a Day: The Story Behind the Story
Chris Colin deep in food prep (photography by Thomas J. Story) Well, that headline’s not quite accurate. What we have here are the not-so-sordid details behind the one-night restaurant perpetrated by...
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Eat Fresh, Day 8: I found my new favorite recipe
This plate of deliciousness? It’s West Coast Dungeness crab pasta with Prosecco and Meyer lemon sauce, from Sunset’s January, 2015 issue—and my delectable homemade dinner on Saturday night. Last...
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Eat Fresh, Day 10: The key to making a resolution stick? Making it fun.
Fast, fresh and easy: Avocado, mango, & shrimp salad Who: Andrea Minarcek, senior travel editor This year I’ve decided to: be a more creative, dedicated chef, starting with a two-week streak of...
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Healthy Meal Plan: 30-Minute Recipes
Thai Chicken Coconut Soup. Photo by Annabelle Breakey; food styling by Randy Mon When my colleague Andrea Minarcek started this year’s Eat Fresh Challenge, her New Year’s goal was to cook every...
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Links We Love: Isn’t It Romantic?
Photo by Blow Up, courtesy of CasaSugar.com In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are a few sweet somethings that’ll make you swoon. 20 adorable DIY Valentine’s gifts. A super-romantic escape: Million...
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Quickle Pickles from The Picnic
This recipe for quick dill pickles was simple and—as promised—very speedy to make. Senior Travel Editor Andrea Minarcek is long on cooking aspirations, but short on time. For this round of the Cookbook...
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Cheese, Glorious (Oregon) Cheese
You know that your day’s going well if—on a visit to one of your favorite cheese makers—you happen to stumble upon the final stages of a grilled-cheese contest. Which is what happened last Saturday,...
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Why you can’t trust every recipe on the internet
Elisa Bosely, trying to fix a badly written recipe. Photograph by Elisa Bosely. Longtime Delicious Living editor Elisa Bosley blogs about food, travel, and more at elisabosley.com. A Sunset...
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So simple. So good. Figs with Gorgonzola & Honey from Homegrown
YUM: Fresh-from-our-tree figs, roasted with gorgonzola and drizzled with honey.(Photos by Carol Shih.) Senior Travel Editor Andrea Minarcek loved the Figs with Gorgonzola and Honey so much, she’s ready...
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Thanksgiving Comfort Food
The Cookbook Club Thanksgiving Feast, courtesy of Heartlandia. (Kimberley Navabpour/Sunset Publishing) As we approach our December office moves—to Oakland’s Jack London Square and to Sonoma’s...
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7 things I learned as a beginner cook with Chef Joanne Weir
All photos by Caroline Hetzel. I don’t know how to cook, so I took a class with a world-renowned chef. Logical place to start, right? Joanne Weir hosted a Mediterranean recipe demo just in time for the...
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Party like it’s 1988 with this throwback election night party menu
From the November 1988 issue of Sunset With all the drama of this year’s presidential race, we’ve been yearning for the simpler times of elections past. You know, back when the candidates didn’t have...
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