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      Savor Sustainability at Cooking for Solutions 2013   Happy Girl Kitchen Co. will join the Monterey Bay Aquarium for its twelfth Cooking for Solutions celebration on May 17-19, 2013 in scenic Monterey, California. We are honored to be a part of this amazing event which features some of the more advanced minds in the food industry.  It is going to be a blast and we hope you will join us.     It’s a grand culinary celebration with more than 20 celebrity chefs from across The Americas, including live cooking demonstrations, intimate salons, culinary adventures and a grand...

Chef Matt Millea has the skills to delight your pallet and satisfy your cravings for great food.  We feature a different local, organic farm each time and Matt is a master of turning the local harvest into a meal to treasure!  Our dinners are always a night to remember! Please join us Thursdays at 6pm May 9th, 16th and 23rd June 6th, 13th and 2th August 1st and 29th September 12th, 19th and 26th October 3rd and 10th   RESERVATIONS REQUIRED!  You can REGISTER ON OUR WEBSITE UNDER SPECIAL EVENTS AND POP-UP DINNERS!!!  

  A food desert is a place with no access to good food.  It can be a state of mind, a physical location or a time of year.  March happens to feel like the one food desert month for California.  It is when the slow growing crops of winter and the delay of the spring planting meet and we are offered Fava leaves, greens, more greens and CITRUS!  Even in the midst of the apparent food desert of March, there is plenty to work with and eat locally which makes me think that a food desert is really a state...

  It happens this time every year.  January and February are full of all sorts of special events and winter pickles and ferments.  We are just recovering from the holiday season.  Then March hits and the phone starts ringing off the hook.  Farmers from every nook and cranny are calling about their citrus being ready.   I love all of the adventures down dirt roads picking up unique varieties of citrus, which will inspire me to create new recipes.  We source citrus from Big Sur to Santa Cruz in many varieties.  We have access to local Mandarins, Clementines, Valencia Oranges, Meyer...

  Pre-Spring Sale at HAPPY GIRL KITCHEN CO.   10% off everything until Wednesday, February 20th at Midnight. Due to popular request, we have booked a full workshop schedule through August and we want everyone who wants to learn how to preserve food to have a chance to learn. We got so excited about it that we are offering a 10% discount for everyone who wants to take advantage of this early registration. A lot of you often complain that workshops sell out early and so I am giving you a chance to pre-register now! We have taught over hundreds...