What We Do Is What We Love
Mindful, Healthy Foods for Humans & For Our Dog Friends
Mindful, Healthy Foods for Humans & For Our Dog Friends
Mindful, Healthy Foods for Humans & For Our Dog Friends
We focus on great taste and mindfully prepared, organic & naturally grown foods. We prepare all of our meals with fresh, locally sourced ingredients as often as possible & nutrition is top of mind. We can also help you treat your pets with special needs by preparing special foods based on their individual profiles. Just call for a consult today. We love the doggies.
Catering
Mindful, Healthy Foods for Humans & For Our Dog Friends
Mindful, Healthy Foods for Humans & For Our Dog Friends
Are you looking for someone to provide the food at your next event? Large or small, we do it all! Wholesome foods including Vegan and Vegetarian offerings. Business events, Retreats, Pop-ups, fundraisers, Casual weddings, anniversary parties, birthdays, you name it, we do it.
Meal Planning, Classes & Event Planning
Mindful, Healthy Foods for Humans & For Our Dog Friends
Meal Planning, Classes & Event Planning
In today's culture of unhealthy fast food, eating well can be difficult. Don't know where to start? Let us help with our tailored menu program. Food IS medicine, but it can taste fantastic while being really good for your body at the same time. We offer customized classes for all age groups and team building classes for your employees.
Testimonials
Tim & Amy S.--Hawaii, USA
"We had no idea what to expect from this little catering company and we were more than happy! The food portions were good size and for our group, that was important. The flavors of the food were fresh and we all commented to each other that we thought it helped us recover from our jet lag. We highly recommend Lisa and her helper Warren. Prompt, healthy, tasty food, delivered to our cabin. what's easier and better after a long flight and drive up to Point Arena?"
Janet and Cindy B.-- San Francisco, CA
"The catering for our weekend get-away was over the top! We called Baby Tomato at the last minute and Lisa brought her A Game. Our dinner was fresh and wonderful. A refreshing break from "restaurant food". Portions were generous, delicious and we will definitely call them again when we come back for more hiking along the beautiful coastline."
Ginny W.- Honolulu, HI
" We've loved everything Lisa prepared. My favorite was the clam chowder. But EVERYTHING was fantastic and plentiful !"
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Hors d'oeuvres--We do it all
Here are just a few examples
Stuffed Mushrooms
mkt $
Delicious & Nutritious
Giacomini Specialty Platter
mkt $
A variety of Italian Meats, Cheeses, Vegetables & Fresh Bread with Dipping Sauces
Specialty Salads & Dressings
mkt $
Entrees--Here's only a few and there are SO Many More....just call.
All Entrees have many optional side dishes and call for many more entree items
Point Arena Wild King Salmon
mkt $
Roasted over Apple wood until absolutely perfect.
Smoked Prime rib
mkt $
Smoked over Hickory chunks and slow roasted for 12 hours
Homemade Lasagna
mkt $
We make beautiful, handcrafted, Red Sauce or White Sauce lasagnas & pastas of all kinds and all flavor profiles.
What Can We Do For You?
Services
Social Media? Yep
Where we are....
Baby Tomato is not just a catering company. We are whole foods based, homemade, from scratch chefs who will bring the organic & sustainable food to you. We work inside or outside and we are quite adept at creating healthy, amazingly tasty foods for special dietary needs and we are" Chefologists" and believe that Food Is Medicine. We love in-home parties, special events, private cheffing & offer bartending services. We also sell our very special, pasture raised, organic lambs custom cut for the best lamb experience you have ever had. We would take on New Zealand if they weren't so far away!
Where we are....
Social Media? Yep
Where we are....
Baby Tomato loves where we live, but we travel to meet the needs of our customers. We are based in both Point Arena, CA, serving the entire South Coast and & remote locations across the state.
Social Media? Yep
Social Media? Yep
Social Media? Yep
We have happy, happy customers. Visit us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BabyTomatoNorCal/
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See us on Yelp!
Shipping
Fun & Customized Cooking Classes
Social Media? Yep
We ship some of our specialty foods like salad dressings, Foraged foods like wild mushrooms (7 varieties) pasta sauces, homemade ranch beans, marinades & spice blends direct to your door. Call for more details and just ask for what you need to 775-737-1297 or email lisa@backwoodschef.com
Food is Medicine
Fun & Customized Cooking Classes
Fun & Customized Cooking Classes
The human body needs the best nutrition it can get when fighting off illness. Feel free to call us to set up a private consultation about your personal health challenges. This is one of the most important aspects of living a long and healthy life. We love the challenges of Chefology and we want to help you feel your best by providing tasty food with your individual profile and special needs in mind. And, we promise that you will never know your food is different than any other wonderful foods we make." Healthy" is never boring here at Baby Tomato.
Fun & Customized Cooking Classes
Fun & Customized Cooking Classes
Fun & Customized Cooking Classes
Invite your friends to a night with Baby Tomato, learning techniques from fishing and foraging to home canning & use of many exciting spices. We teach basic food physics that will lead you to a lifetime of cooking without recipes! Team Building Cooking Classes for your employees, Parent/Child Cooking classes, club or group classes and any other event you wish to have. We offer specialty menu classes where we teach "better" than just the basics. Think "THE BEST THANKSGIVING MENU EVER" as well as wine pairings. We offer the "Fix It" class, which teaches you how to save a dish you have made that may not be quite right. We don't like to waste anything and teach nose-to-tail/farm-ocean-table cooking. call us or email at 775-737-1297 or Lisa@backwoodschef.com
Meet The Chef
Lisa Giacomini-Owner/Proprietor
Hello to my fellow Foodies !
My name is Lisa Giacomini. I have been a Mendocino County resident for over 30 years. My love of cooking and nutrition has been a life-long ambitious journey that I have used as solace from an engineering/ Inventor's world, developing my own recipes based on classics, but with fresh ingredients using my background in raising nutritionally superior foods, hunting and gathering as well as exploring the knowledge as it relates to food using my professional, but seemingly unrelated careers to pursue my food passion.
I was raised in Trinity County, CA to a subsistence lifestyle. We hunted, we gathered, we raised our own animals for food. We had a 1/2 acre garden where we worked tirelessly throughout the spring, summer and autumn months to nurture, harvest and preserve everything we grew. Nothing went to waste. We visited the coast 3 times per year to get surf fish, smelt, red-ear perch, rockfish, clams, oysters and mussels. At 12 years old, all of us had our hunter safety course done and had 2 blacktail deer tags each year in order to support our family. My dad hunted bear and we all hunted upland game birds. We lived as much off the land as was possible. Being sportsmen, we understood the importance of conservation and sustainable resources and practiced that our entire lives.
Growing up with the nose-to-tail mantra was critical in appreciating all that was there for us to use and being responsible about it. My dad taught us everything from fishing for every species of fish, hunting all that we could and being stewards of the land. He taught all the other kids in our neighborhood of Junction City that as well and would chastise those teenage boys that didn't take care of animals or fish correctly, reporting them to their own fathers. He knew what he was talking about and although there was never any yelling, you just never wanted to embarrass or shame the family by not respecting the forest or the lakes, rivers, streams and ocean. He taught me everything I needed to know to use these precious ingredients to make delicious, wild, organic foods. My father was a fisherman, logger & owned a small excavating company, and all "unrelatable careers" or so it seemed. But I see now that although his experiences were not all food focused, each and every thing that he did was important when it came to applying his diverse knowledge to his real passion, which was creating food from our numerous, natural resources and I was his willing apprentice.
From learning how and when to harvest foods from the forest, to skinning and butchering animals, smoking fish, canning vegetables, making ferments & specialty family recipes, I had a foundation that most children never get. There was an extensive amount of knowledge to be learned just keeping foods safe in all types of weather with limited freezer space and the different ways of preservation for everything we gathered, hunted and used. Then there was the outdoor cooking that was involved and evolved every time, and everywhere we went.
I had many interests throughout this life. I felt as though each and every thing I have been exposed to or explored has had an impact on my cooking.
While studying anatomy and physiology in college, it was only logical to study human nutrition and how our bodies use nutrients to heal us or keep us from getting illnesses. Another area of study for me was that of human disease. Fascinating stuff and eventually proved "relatable" to my cooking. But how would my passion in the field of inventing and mechanical engineering work into this equation? I saw a distinct correlation between all three things, plus the nutrition aspect of each food and how it could help us all lead a healthier, tastier and more satisfying lives.
The mechanical and physics of food is definitely something I feel is super important when learning the fine art of cooking. With that foundation, the creative side is what can now develop. Without understanding food physics, it is impossible to be a great cook. I enjoy teaching those fundamentals.
I'm not just the cook, I am the fisherman. I am the diver. I am the hunter. I am the person who can hunt it, kill it, cook it and serve it. I prefer not to do the dishes afterward but I can do that too. I love animals and own several dogs, cats and horses and live amongst cows, donkeys, sheep and the cows. I love teaching useful skills to others and love where and how I live.
For all the important men friends I have known that have delivered everything from Abalone and rockfish, & salmon to large rattlesnakes and gray squirrels, quail and wild boar, pheasants, black bear and black tail deer to my kitchen door just so I could cook them for you, I am forever grateful. Without mentors and providers in my life, this chapter would never have been written. It has been an interesting life so far.
Thank you for reading this and I hope we get to know each other through food and all things outdoors here in Point Arena. Your support is so much appreciated. See you in class!
Kind Regards,
Lisa Giacomini
Owner/Chef
Point Arena, Fish & Farm, LLC/ Baby Tomato
