In the Kitchen with Sigona’s featuring Artichokes If you’re encountering artichokes for the first time, these jumbo gems may seem a bit intimidating, but don’t let the thorns fool you. Artichokes are great and absolutely fun to eat! You can steam them, stuff them and make them into soups. The Basics Working with Artichokes Wash [...]

A Pair for the Palate: Savory Goat Cheese with Fig or Pear Figs and goat cheese. Figs stuffed with goat cheese and drizzled with honey, for good measure. How about a pear and goat cheese topped green salad? Goat cheese and any fruit for that matter. Can it get any better? If you love that [...]

Sigona’s Fresh Press Olive Oil of the Month: May 2012 Ah spring! It’s time to welcome back the sun shining on your face, the San Francisco Giants to AT&T Park and flavor-exploding salads to your lunches, dinners and BBQs. You may already be planning a nice home cooked meal for Mother’s Day – and Memorial [...]

In the Kitchen with Sigona’s featuring Asparagus My one caution about asparagus is not to overcook it, and that’s a pretty universal sentiment. Even going back to Rome, the Emperor Augustus is said to have dispatched orders “to be done in less time than it takes to cook asparagus.” Grilled Asparagus Try grilling asparagus to [...]

Bonus Recipes Featuring Barber’s 1833 Vintage Reserve Cheddar Absolutely one of the best white cheddars we have in our store, the Barber’s 1833 Vintage Reserve Cheddar is aged at least 24 months before its made available, making it deliciously creamy with both savory and sweet notes. The Barber family have been in the cheese-making business [...]

In the Kitchen with Sigona’s for Passover and Easter When it comes to food, this time of year is one of the most meaningful and festive as the next week marks one of the most widely observed times of the religious year for Christian and Jewish families. Our Sigona family knows more about the Easter [...]

In the Kitchen with Sigona’s featuring Spectacular Cheeses We have some incredible cheeses on sale this week at Sigona’s…savings this extreme don’t come around too often, so hurry in to try these cheeses today! The following are recipes for a few of our super-sale cheeses – including one you can get for free next week, [...]

Bonus Recipes featuring Sigona’s Dark Maple Balsamic From ham to Brussels sprouts to pot stickers, our Dark Maple Balsamic is guaranteed to tickle your taste buds. This balsamic is a first-of-its-kind and is made using real, 100% pure maple produced by a small family farm in Vermont. Try out some of these recipes below and [...]

In the Kitchen with Sigona’s: Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day We can’t let St. Patrick’s Day go by without offering a few traditional Irish recipes! Here’s a complete menu, from bread to entrée to dessert. Enjoy! Mrs. O’Callaghan’s Soda Bread Peter, our wine and beer specialist, has an Irish heritage and said without hesitation that we [...]