Pesto

Pesto is ideal for a Guessipe, because it’s pretty flexible. While pesto is traditionally made with basil, you can substitute with parsley, cilantro, carrot greens, radish greens, beet greens, and probably others! You can also use walnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, sesame seeds, or pumpkin seeds instead of pine nuts. In this Guessipe I used walnuts and…

Wood Oven Pizza

There is a giant wood-fired oven in Westchester that is open to the public for pizza-making on the second Saturday of every month. It’s so hot it only takes about 4 minutes to cook a pizza! People from all over come together for this amazing community cooking event. Everyone brings home-made dough, sauces, and toppings…

City of Gold

City of GoldĀ is a documentary in which Jonathan Gold explores the food culture of LA. Given my little side project of working my way through Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list, seeing this movie was a must for me. I was so excited to hear that they would be doing a City of GoldĀ event at…