Monthly Archives: January 2008

Pink and moldy olives, anyone?

By Amy Machnak, Sunset food writer I have two separate batches of olives that I am trying to cure using different methods. The first I started around Halloween, with olives from Pietra Santa Winery in a salt cure. The other olives are ones that Team Olive brought back from our harvest at Valencia Creek Farms in November. Those are in [...]

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The Brew Crew rides again

Just to recap, the Brew Crew made beer and it was good. But many enthusiasts could say we “cheated,” using extract instead of starting with the hops and grains in their raw state. Make no mistake: We are willing to brew as much beer as necessary to establish our cred. So we’re going at it again, and starting from scratch; [...]

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