Don't waste food. That's what my grandmother always told me. I took that simple idea to heart.
Darkness has flooded my room. I nervously try to avoid pressing power buttons on any of the number ...
They, asked me how I knew,
My true love was true,
I of course replied, something here inside,
Can not ...
One of the wonderful aspects of living in Southern California is the weather. The weather affords ...
These mini mint puddings sprout to life with their mint seedling growing out the top and ...
Sustainable. Local. Organic. They've become culinary buzz words. They've caused confusion. What ...
"I never thought I'd be eating asparagus, much less for breakfast."
That was my husband on ...
Serves 6-8
1 rutagaba, peeled and diced, about 2 cups
2 tablespoons butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 shallots, finely chopped
3 leeks, white and light-green ...
In August I love to drink fresh lime juice in the evening. If you keep the mixture on the tart ...
4 large red bell peppers (about 2¼ pounds total)
4 tablespoons olive oil
1 onion, cut into ¾-inch ...
Makes 4 servings
Okra's characteristic sliminess functions as a natural, flavorful thickening ...
50 ml/ 2 oz Belvedere IX
15 ml (¾ oz) Absinthe
20 ml (1 oz) lime juice
Ginger beer
Grapefruit ...
You'll never find this place on your own; you have to know someone. The Thin Man and I are just ...
Just For You Cafe in the Dogpatch Neighborhood of San Francisco, sits about two blocks from where I ...
Since (finally) it has been discovered that the fat in beef – oleic acid – is the same heart ...
In the mid-1970s, when I lived in Providence the food wasn't very good. Sure there was great local ...
With Father's Day coming up it was time to consider what barbecue sauce we are going to use to ...
My father got me laid – twice. I’ll get to the food part in a minute.
The first was a cute, ...
I couldn’t let St. Patrick’s Day come and go without making something to celebrate this “green” ...
We're not sure who makes these decisions...
April is not only National Grilled Cheese Month, ...
India: The Cookbook
The amount most of us knows about Indian cuisine is miniscule. And yet, who ...
From the LA Times
Barbecue – and by that I mean real barbecue, meat cooked long and slow near (not ...
Oh.
No, really, oh. Oh as in “Oh my, these brownies” and “Oh damn, these brownies.” Oh as “Oh I ...
I had a completely fabulous mother. She was a pretty good cook, except that she was always so ...
Since Mother's Day is a day when mom is celebrated and pampered, it would be counter-intuitive to ...
About a month ago, I shared a recipe for buttery shortbread. In a cooking class I taught recently ...
My mother was not Donna Reed or Jane Wyatt. What’s worse, in an era when father knew best, she ...
Double-dipped Justice at Philippe's
If you are a criminal defense attorney as I am defending cases ...
It's all my friend Jo's fault. She brought me to LudoBites 3.0 at Royal T in Culver City just over ...
My boyfriend was a Persian Muslim. We spent a decade together starting in the mid-eighties. ...