I spent last week in California, flying into San Francisco where we stayed at Sam and Jessie's. They have a beautiful apartment in the Richmond a few blocks from Golden Gate Park. I'd never been to SF and over the four days there I tried to get a feel for it. It's true, going to west coast makes you inevitably question your previous choice of coasts. Sam and Jessie were amazing hosts and the crown of our culinary experience was getting a 3 course meal at Chez Sammy courtesy of the larger-than-life legend himself.
Sam made Fresh pasta with the help of Jessie. We all did prep work, but in the end the chef took over and made each course to order. We started off on a fresh note, with a Blood Orange microgreen salad with shaved Parmesan, thinly-sliced fresh fennel, calamata olives, and a light vinaigrette.
Next Same cooked his pasta and took the roasted fennel out of the oven. He combined these with toasted pine nuts, roasted garlic, bread crumbs,, grated Parmesan, fresh parsley oil.
Check out how gracefully Sam tosses the pine nuts on to the plate.
After this we were all feeling sated, but there was one more dish to go. The Chef just happened to have some sword-fish lying around which he pan seared, and threw on a bed of seared cabbage. Eventually, he smothered it in salsa verde.
The feast was so delicious, we all went into temporary food comas. Sam is officially Don Cuisini Cucini.
Does this look like a man who can't cook?
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And he owns a cool "Keep Diggin'" shirt to boot!!!
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