La Cocina que Canta!
Cooking School & Culinary Center - Rancho La Puerta
The lush six-acre kitchen gardens of Tres Estrellas are located a bit north of the Rancho’s main landscape.
Encompassing 3,000 acres overall, the Rancho property takes in a 2,000-acre parcel set aside by the Szekely as a permanent nature preserve. Equally impressive: The gardens have been farmed organically since 1940, yielding delectable produce for the Rancho’s Mediterranean-style meals & for ingredients used at the cooking school.
Below: Set within the pavement, a circular design combines pebble paving & wooly thyme, releasing its lovely scent with each footstep.
In the entryway courtyard leading to the kitchen, bougainvillea scrambles up the red brick wall, while the the rich fragrance of Brugmansia ‘Charles Grimaldi’ is most potent at the end of the day.
Edible flowers garnish many dishes to add flavor and color, like the delicious blooms of broccoli rabe – aka Broccoli Raap or Rapini.
Head Gardener Salvador Tinajero cares for the gardens, and assists students in harvesting herbs and vegetables to be added to the school’s mouth-watering recipes.
The gardens thrive in a valley nestled in the foothills of Mount Kuchumaa,
….a sacred site for Native Americans.
La Cocina que Canta / Rancho La Puerta
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