Recipe–Roasted Poblano Pepper, Sweet Corn, and Potato Soup
When summer produce begins showing up in our gardens and local markets, we have endless possibilities of dishes to serve our families. We can mix and match those veggies for tasty, fresh, crisp...
View ArticleFamily Cookbook and Hydroponic Update
We tell our stories around the table, and in our family, that table includes food. Lots of food. We pull everything we have out of the refrigerator and cabinets for our guests. One of the many...
View ArticleHoliday Bake-Off
I hosted my little family Christmas last weekend, and the day went by too quickly. I love having my children, children-in-law, and grandchildren together. When they leave, the house is suddenly too...
View ArticleStorytelling and Baccala
bacalhau (salgado) (Portuguese)bacalao salado (Spanish)bacallau salgado (Galician)μπακαλιάρος, bakaliáros (Greek)Klippfisch (German)morue salée (French)baccalà (Italian)bakalar (Croatian)bakaljaw...
View ArticleSausage and Pepper One Pot Dinner
Are you in a hurry tonight? Here’s a quick, one-pot meal. I’ve made this recipe for 50 years, and it never fails to satisfy. Sausage, Potato, and Onion Dinner is hearty, tasty, and very easy to...
View ArticleSacred Lotus
Tall, elegant, enduring, and even nutritious, the intriquing lotus has been revered since antiquity. The delicate lotus flower can emerge from the murkiest waters and purify its environment, is...
View ArticleThe Taste of Shape
Which do you prefer—gummy bears or gummy worms? Spaghetti or mostaccioli? Sliced bread or a roll? Food is one of the pleasures of life. Most of us look forward to times of day and seasons that feature...
View ArticleTurkey Truths
The popularity of turkeys in North America came about in an interesting way. Turkeys are thought to have been domesticated more than 2,000 years ago in Pre-Columbian Mexico. In fact, turkey fossils...
View ArticleHoney, I Love You!
Nature feeds our bodies and our spirits. It provides us with beauty, interest, creativity, food, and medicine. So, when we look for solutions, why not look to nature first? Such natural generosity is...
View ArticleSummer-Fresh Herbs
One of the prime factors in cooking the tastiest dishes is to use fresh, quality ingredients–fresh herbs being particularly important in most recipes. Purchasing herbs in your local grocery store...
View ArticleDip It
Creamy onion dip and crunchy, salty potato chips. Back in the 70s, this appetizer was a party standard. Packages of Lipton powdered soup and sour cream were always on hand to whip up this yummy chip...
View ArticleThanksgiving Mussels
The aroma of turkey roasting in the oven along with stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green beans, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie lures us to the kitchen every Thanksgiving. However, this...
View ArticleExploding Squash
It was a quick dinner—spaghetti squash with oil, garlic, parmesan cheese, salt, and pepper. And I wanted to make it quicker by baking the squash in the microwave. After washing and pricking the small...
View ArticleJalapeno Popper Pizza
Spicy, salty, smoky, creamy, and chewy. If you like jalapeno poppers, those yummy jalapenos stuffed with cream cheese and wrapped in bacon, I have a twist that you might enjoy at least as much....
View ArticleSinging the Holiday Blues
I thought it would be easier this year. Yes, my husband, Marshall, only passed away less than nine months ago, but this was my fifth year without him at Thanksgiving dinner, and I am at peace knowing...
View ArticleSweet Twisted History
With the progression of the seasons comes the move from everything pumpkin to everything peppermint. But if the iconic Christmas peppermint candy canes aren’t your thing, you can appease your sweet...
View ArticleHot and Smokey
Cinnamon, cumin, sumac, and cardamom. One of my attractions to different cultures is their cuisine. Tai, Hispanic, Indian, Chinese, or Italian. I love them all! I thrive on the spices of ethnic foods...
View ArticleTaste That Shape
Food is one of the pleasures of life. Most of us look forward to times of day and seasons that present our favorite dishes. But why we like those foods is complicated. All of our senses—sight, smell,...
View ArticleQuick Crisp
Family cooks have brought about many of our favorite and comfort foods as the result of limited ingredients on hand, rethinking the use of ingredients, and errors in baking. You may know that the...
View ArticleStop! Reflect! Give Thanks!
I’m not one to long for the past. My life’s been a mix of extremes—excellent and dreadful times. I look back on the good ones with gratitude and prefer not to relive those that were difficult....
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