Lance Gordon's Page

I have been tweaking a home-brew recipe for a Prickly Pear Vinaigrette, and it seems to be coming together pretty well. I decided to try posting it under 'Recipes', in part to see what else had been posted there. Unfortunately the "what else" is currently nothing! Turns out that if you select Recipes you're prompted to create a Group, which appears to be a fairly arduous process frought with a complete lack of instructions! Does anybody have any idea how this is suppo… Continue

Casting about for a fresh Sunday breakfast idea, we remembered Rob DeWalt's mention of Sleeping Dog Tavern as a new contender. Finding a parking space on San Francisco Street at about 9 AM (to our amazement), we figured we were off to a fine start. At that hour, the place was pretty well deserted, but we were not deterred! I ordered the migas with house-made chorizo, and my wife had a breakfast burrito "Christmas", hoping to sample both chiles in one setting. Our attentive waiter asked me… Continue

At last that enormous former Albertson's space at the southeast corner of DeVargas mall has a tenant. Their grand opening is Wednesday the 12th. I do have a question -- what's a 'Sunflower Farmers Market'? More importantly, what does it have to do with actual Farmers Markets as we know them?

We here in SF have one of the best Farmers Markets I've seen anywhere, but I like to check them out wherever I go. Farmers Markets are our best insurance against being homogenized by Food Inc., the g… Continue