"It's all about the recipe!"
When asked what his favorite kind of pie is, my son always answered, “Meat!” and then gets those raised eyebrow, are-you-kidding-me looks from Americans not familiar with Great British cooking 🙂 Meat pies are one of the delicious cornerstones of…
Pumpkin isn’t only for October and November, you know. I hope you have an extra can or two of pumpkin puree on hand for the other ten months of the year 🙂 This isn’t a pumpkin muffin, and it isn’t…
My friend and webmaster told me this picture is awful. She said the steak looks dry. Hmpffff. It might be all that, but the recipe is a good one. Please don’t be put off by the horrible picture! Last weekend…
Hmpfff. I just got through looking at the two hundred and seventeen pictures of a recent bride’s Hawaiian honeymoon. Â As one of her friends commented, “The envy hurts“! Â I went to Hawaii once. I did. It was with my kids’…
Traditional Arabic hummus—how do I know its traditional? Because I learned how to make it from my Saudi and Kuwaiti students in 1981 and 1982. I watched how they made it, wrote everything down, and have followed the recipe ever since. Well,…
I’ve been making frozen bananas for a long time and have decided that Hershey’s Special Dark is the best chocolate to compliment the taste of the banana—odd, since I am usually a milk chocolate devotee. It is also the most…
I know a thing or two about chicken nuggets as I have been making them for two decades with a recipe very similar to the one Sara Moulton contributed to The 150 Best American Recipes. Sara calls her version Garlicky Baked…
One of our family favorites has always been our oven baked fries. My friend Mary first made these for me about 25 years ago—I had been so impressed to arrive at her house for lunch and find a basket of home…
