This Just In: Cafe Happy Hour Starts This Week

Starting this week we’ll be doing a late night thang in the Oliveto Cafe featuring seasonal cocktails and free small bites…

Lemon Verbena Tisane

Jenny Raven’s Lemon Verbena Tisane…

Ponsford’s Place

Craig Ponsford has been a great friend to Oliveto over the past year. As we have become increasing interested in locally grown wheat and the use of whole grain flour for our pizzas and pastas, Craig has been providing us with all the necessary instruction & guidance as only a master baker can do. As a direct result of this friendship and…

Red Flint ‘Floriani’ Polenta Recipe

1) 3 parts water: 1 part Red Flint ‘floriani’ polenta* 2) Bring water to a boil, whisk polenta in, lower to slow simmer 3) Cook for around 3 hours 4) Add…

TJI: Dried White Fava Beans

THIS JUST IN: 200 kg of dried white fava beans. We just received our annual shipment of fava beans, along with some of Puglia’s finest olive oil from our friends in Ostuni, Italy. This means…

Jenny’s Preserved Lemons

This week, pastry chef Jenny Raven put up a batch of Preserved Meyer Lemons. Unique in the fermentation world, this type of preparation produces volatile esters that deepen the aroma of the peel making for delicious tapenades and relishes, as well as adding a bright accompaniment to a number of other recipes…

New Year’s Eve 2010

Featuring a Venetian-Style Menu with two seatings…

Community Grains

If you’ve been follow the Oliveto Grain Project, you know that over the last two years we’ve been enmeshed in the pursuit of locally grown corn and wheat. This has evolved from a simple query into a full-blown cause and now finally the creation, in partnership with our farmers and miller, of Community Grains….

We’re not done yet…

The 2010 Truffle Dinners officially ended on Saturday, November 2o. But due to the bounty of truffles this year, we’ll continue to offer a Black Truffle pizza on the Oliveto Cafe dinner menu for the next two weeks…

Red Corn Harvest 2010

On Wednesday we drove up to Winters, CA to help with the harvest of our Red Flint corn. First, we did some hand-picking in hopes of selecting some quality seed for next year’s planting. Lesson learned: hand-harvesting corn is hard (and itchy) work! Thankfully, the John Deere 9600 Combine showed up and…