Ninety degree weather welcomed us home from Nashville yesterday. Apparently Mother Nature is giving us one last summer hurrah and it’s a doozy. Perfect time to fire up the grill and send summer off with some classics-dogs, burgers, corn on the cob and POTATO SALAD. Ok, all I really want is the potato salad. The rest is just …
Well of course we ate our way through the city! My favorite place from this trip is…wait for it…….. TORCHY’S TACOS! Queso dip with thin crispy tortilla chips, Trailer Park Tacos trashy-style and corn grilled taken off the cob and gussied up with cheese and spices. Good tacos at a great price. Yum. …
It has been a little while since I posted Ottolenghi’s recipe for Turkey Zucchini Burgers. A flavor packed dish that uses both fresh and dried herbs not usually found in my kitchen. Tangy sumac, refreshing mint, thyme and parsley, a welcome addition to my familiar repertoire of flavors. Now my only problem is… I need more recipes that use …
The Dim Sum Field Guide: Not For the Novice Dim Sum Eater I love dim sum so I jumped at the chance to review Carolyn Phillips’ “The Dim Sum Field Guide”. My first impression of the book was, quite honestly, underwhelming. “There aren’t any photographs,” I lamented to my hubby. “Only line drawings of each …
I don’t want to sound like the Houston Chamber of Commerce but we did have a great time this past weekend. Being a native Californian, a San Franciscan at that, does not lend itself well to being a fan of the Lone Star State. Politics aside (I just can’t wrap my head around how Molly …
I snappd this photo at Black Sand Beach on the Big Island. When I saw the sign on the tree, one of my favorite cookies just popped into my head, Alice Medrich’s Coconut Sticks. Hmmm….I wonder why? I love her coconut sticks. A riff on biscotti, they often end up in a holiday cookie tin or …
I still haven’t made that transition to feeding two instead of five. This is no more evident than when I go to the farmer’s market. At my favorite vendor, I linger over baskets of beautiful, ripe strawberries. I pop one in my mouth, hmmm yum, they taste as good as they look. Okay, STOP. …
I know, I know…who would have thought, delicious brownies from a cookbook based on the TV show Friends…go figure! Trust me they are really good. Kid friendly brownies! Let them cool and rest before eating!
Wes planted 2 squash plants this season and I am totally dumbfounded by the number of squash you get from 2 plants…and apparently all at once. Looking for recipes that will put a dent in the supply of zucchini that is monopolizing my vegetable crisper. I remembered a recipe I had tried from cookbook author Ottolenghi, turkey and zucchini …