Marga's Food Blog
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Hi there! I'm Marga. This blog is my main conduit for publishing my recipes, restaurant reviews, and other thoughts on food. I like to cook and I like to eat out, and the San Francisco Bay Area is a wonderful place to engage in both activities.
Marga's Food Blog
3d ago
Chasing the Eclipse: Gastronomic Notes from a Trip to New Orleans and Dallas. Natchitoches’ version of empanadas could use a better shell Natchitoches (pronounced “Knock-a-dish”) is famous for two things: its myriad of B&B’s and its meat pies. These oversized ..read more
Marga's Food Blog
5d ago
Chasing the Eclipse: Gastronomic Notes from a Trip to New Orleans and Dallas. Great breakfast at a darling B&B in Natchitoches On our way back from Texas, we stopped in Natchitoches (pronounced like “knock a dish”) for the night. Established ..read more
Marga's Food Blog
5d ago
Chasing the Eclipse: Gastronomic Notes from a Trip to New Orleans and Dallas. Some of the best fast food burgers we’ve had. Before our trip to Louisiana, I’d never heard of Whataburger. That just shows my ignorance. Founded in Texas ..read more
Marga's Food Blog
1w ago
Chasing the Eclipse: Gastronomic Notes from a Trip to New Orleans and Dallas. Great fried chicken in fun surroundings We had two goals for our trip to Dallas: seeing the eclipse and visiting with our old friends Eddie and Arthur ..read more
Marga's Food Blog
1w ago
Chasing the Eclipse: Gastronomic Notes from a Trip to New Orleans and Dallas. After breakfast at Brennan’s in New Orleans, and getting our rental car, we started to make our way to Dallas. I had planned on being quite full ..read more
Marga's Food Blog
1w ago
Eating our way through the French Quarter in two days A month before our brief sojourn in New Orleans, we spent a glorious week in New York City. I’d planned it as a foodie trip, and had had a wonderful ..read more
Marga's Food Blog
1w ago
Chasing the Eclipse: Gastronomic Notes from a Trip to New Orleans and Dallas. A disappointing breakfast at a beautiful restaurant. Brennan’s is one of New Orleans famed historical restaurants. It opened on Bourbon Street in 1946 as Owen Brennan’s Vieux ..read more
Marga's Food Blog
1w ago
Chasing the Eclipse: Gastronomic Notes from a Trip to New Orleans and Dallas. Arnaud’s is another classic New Orleans restaurant, dating all the way back to 1918. On a Friday night, the restaurant was impossibly busy and lively, it looked ..read more
Marga's Food Blog
1w ago
Chasing the Eclipse: Gastronomic Notes from a Trip to New Orleans and Dallas. Wherein we confirm that beignets are just not our thing. The Cafe du Monde is one of the America’s oldest – and most famous – cafes, serving ..read more
Marga's Food Blog
1w ago
Chasing the Eclipse: Gastronomic Notes from a Trip to New Orleans and Dallas. Brigtsen’s is one of those Chef owned restaurants that you just want to love because you know they are a labor of love themselves. Chef Frank Brigtsen ..read more