Recipe: Chocolate Pumpkin Pie from chef Michael Symon
“If a flourless chocolate cake and a classic pumpkin pie had a love child, it would be this silky, sinful dessert,” says the celebrity chef. Michael Symon, the gleaming, gleaming-pated genie of so many reality-food shows, hardly requires an introduction. This September, he returned to the shelves with his eighth cookbook, “Simply Symon Suppers,” coauthored…
Recipe: Pumpkin-Cannoli Cheesecake Cake by Molly Baz
Forget boring pumpkin bread, this pumpkin cake mixes in all the flavors of a great cannoli with whole-milk ricotta, orange and pistachios. Molly Baz is a chef, former Bon Appétit food editor, and online-video host whose first cookbook, “Cook This Book,” debuted at the top of The New York Times bestseller list in 2021. She’s…
Recipe: Kneaders’ Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
The recipe for these pumpkin chocolate chip cookies comes courtesy of a popular western U.S. bakery chain Colleen Worthington’s new cookbook, “Kneaders Bakery & Café: A Celebration of Our Best Recipes and Memories” (Shadow Mountain, $34), inspired these autumnal pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. Worthington cofounded the Kneaders restaurant chain, which has locations from Nevada to…
Woodpeckers are destroying a roof border on a San Jose home. What’s the solution?
DR. JOAN: Woodpeckers are destroying the fascia board that borders our roof. Plastic owls, reflective tape, reflective hanging devices, a solar ultrasonic deterrent device, and even powerful hose nozzles have all been tried. Nothing has worked so far. Our woodpecker problem is likely exacerbated by the fact that they appear to live in an old…
Bay Area poll: 86% of residents support CARE Court mental health overhaul. How will it work?
The program started Monday in seven counties, including San Francisco, and will roll out statewide by 2024 California’s CARE Court system, a new initiative to make it easier for judges to compel mentally ill residents into treatment plans and facilities, goes into effect Monday in seven pilot counties, including San Francisco, the only Bay Area…
Draymond’s health and Chris Paul’s role among 4 hot topics to follow heading into Warriors’ media day
The Warriors will hold media day Monday before beginning training camp Tuesday. The Warriors enter the preseason determined to right the wrongs of their failed title defense. “We need to have a good training camp,” said head coach Steve Kerr last week. “It’s imperative that we get off to a better start this year not…
Word Game: Oct. 2, 2023
TODAY’S WORD: OCCLUDED (OCCLUDED: uh-KLOOD-ed: closed or blocked off.) The average word count is 13 words. 30 minute time limit Can you find at least 17 words in OCCLUDED? The list will be made public tomorrow. SATURDAY’S WORD — DARE DART DATES drat east pare dater dear depart drape drat paste part of parse pate,…
Leaked audio: Google cofounder Sergey Brin made a rare appearance at an all-hands to hype up the company’s AI work and the incoming ‘technology revolution’
Google cofounder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at the company’s recent all-hands meeting. Brin talked about the “profound” change of AI and the company’s early days. Brin has been working on Google’s upcoming Gemini AI model. Sergey Brin, Google’s cofounder, is back at the search giant, hyping up its AI work at “TGIF” meetings.…
Amazon will make up to $7 billion in revenue from Prime Video ads, according to Wall Street analysts
Amazon will begin rolling out ads in Prime Video next year. These ads could net between $6B to $7B in revenue, according to Wall Street analysts. Amazon believes these ads will reach 115 million monthly US users. According to three new Wall Street notes, Amazon’s decision to begin running ads within Prime Video in early…
