SO WE CROSSED THE GOLDEN GATE to visit our sweet friend Katie at her new home on stilts at the water. Soooo good. We tooled around the bay in her little blow-up raft, worked up an appetite, then had lunch on her deck: charred hand-made elk sausage (that she helped hunt, clean, butcher!), lamb sausage and pork-garlic sausage, all Katie-made and served with thick herbed polenta and salad with last-of-season persimmons and pomegranate jewels. Did I say that Katie is one of the most amazing cooks I know? Talk about the simplest of meals. Exquisite. Recipes coming soon...
