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Indian Summer indeed! Global warming is alive and well when it's pushing 100 degrees in San Francisco in September. Not wanting to make anything that involved getting near a stove, I called my friends J & J and asked if I could come over to their uber swanky and air conditioned kitchen and whip something up for us for dinner. When I woke up ...

Filed under: Recipes, Shellfish After many years abiding to the rule that I would never eat what I couldn't look at in its real form, I succumbed to temptation and had a delicious bowl of Conch Chowder at the Nicola Seafood Restaurant at the Hyatt in Key West (a dish that is, sadly, no longer on the menu). While the conch might look all gooey out ...

It’s that time of year. Farmer’s Markets are exploding with great spring fruits and vegetables. My favorite among them is cherries. If this were prime time television, the cherry would be a superstar, hosting its own variety show in the best time slot possible. Like a Saturday night bookended by very special episodes of The Love ...

Comfort Food With A Fiesta Flair Here's another one of those spur-of-the-moment recipes I came up with one day after poking around in the pantry and looking at stuff languishing in the fridge. Whether you call it black bean soup or black bean chili or simply 'that black bean stuff,' it's quick, easy, delicious, lowfat, and good for you - my kind ...

When I spent time in Morocco a couple of years ago, I found harira on nearly every menu. Traditionally, it is the food that breaks the month-long, daylight fasting of Ramadan, but I was told by more than one old geezer that it was also referred to as “Smoker’s Soup” because it helped purify the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: ...

Healthy & Homemade Fresh From The Pantry How do you jump start a lagging lambing season? Try to catch a flight at an airport that's 200 miles from your farm. Three lambs, including a set of twins, were born Wednesday morning as we were scrambling to get out the door. Joe had to go out of town last week, so last fall we planned lambing ...

Nothing Hits The Spot Like Homemade Soup Some of my favorite recipes were created by chance. Last summer's popular Mexican Jumping Bean Slaw and Easy Vegetarian Tacos resulted from having a kitchen full of baby cabbages, my Apple Blueberry Crumble Bars came about while I was baking a bribe for a friend who really wanted Just Peachy Blueberry ...

Filed under: Lunch, Vegetables, Recipes, Soups/Salads I haven't been posting many recipes lately, mostly because I've been in something of dry spell when it comes to cooking. However, I haven't been staying totally out of the kitchen. Last weekend I made a pot of butternut and carrot soup that ended up being really tasty and the perfect thing to ...

Dieter's Diary On Friday I asked for help - I was looking for soup recipes that were fast, tasty, and healthy. I needed to get back on my healthy-eating track after a week of a bad cold and some gloomy, freezing weather that put the kibosh on exercising. You rose to the challenge admirably! Thanks for all the posts. I enlisted the help of Epi's ...

Filed under: Dinner, Vegetables, Cheese, Recipes, Super Bowl XLII For some reason, Super Bowl foods tend to be pretty meat-centric. When I think game day foods, I think chili (with ground turkey or beef), burgers, steaks or Italian hoagies (also known as subs/grinders/heros/po'boy in other parts of the country) stacked high with salami. But ...