Mexico Lindo y Que Rico
Bring pesos and a big appetite for the perfect local dinner experience in Loreto, the delicious and atmospheric Mexico Lindo y Que Rico. Go on, read more. There’s photos, too.
Meatless Monday: potato filled tacos
Luscious, rustic steamed tacos with a potato filling from the kitchen of Señora Elvira and the pen of the renowned Diana Kennedy. Quick, easy, and delicious. Here you go:
Make your own taco seasoning
Save the planet and mix up your own taco seasoning with ingredients from your spice rack. Tangy, spicy, and gluten-free as a side bonus! Here’s how.
Pasta con broccoli recipe
Nights are getting longer and colder, and that means dinners are getting a little heartier and warmer. . . time for Pasta House Company-style pasta con broccoli with their house salad. Make it at your house with these recipes.
How to stuff a wild zucchini
The zucchini have gone completely wild this year. It didn’t start out that way; they were actually slow to grow. I planted the 4″ starts the second week of May; by the third week of June they’d barely doubled in size. So I worked a handful of Dr....
The messy truth
The honest truth – I make a tremendous mess when I cook. I never manage to put things away as I go and always leave cupboards and drawers open, as the teriyaki-laced bamboo skewers in my utensil drawer attest. So this, or a similar scene, is what awaits me most...
Warm asparagus salad
A summer recipe for grilled asparagus salad with toasted pine nuts, crispy prosciutto, and salty parmesan. Mmm.
Tartiflette
Short days and cool nights often call for a rich, hearty entree. Try this tartiflette, a type of potatoes au gratin with ham that is made using the distinctive reblochon cheese. Delicious!
Sunday Supper, a poem
This poem is much like my children in that I’m occasionally astonished such a thing came out of me. I scribbled this down – an intact stream of images – while at the hairdresser’s, sitting under a fan of hot lamps, individual chunks of hair wrapped in foil. I remember I was giggling at the time. Perhaps I should try and write more under the influence of aluminum. Enjoy your Sunday Supper.
Perfect pizza topping combinations
From arugula to jalapeno-stuffed olives to smoked salmon, here are some of our tried-and-true delicious pizza topping combinations. What are yours?
Grilled pizza how-to
Jack Prelutsky’s pizza poem made me hungry! Since I’m thinking about pizza I thought I should let you in on the secrets of one thing I do really, really well – handmade barbecued pizza.
California cassoulet
The the very best of my recent experiments in leftover land turned out to be a stew LL dubbed California cassoulet. It lacks beans but really, I couldn’t resist the alliteration. The process is fairly typical of the way I cook that basically guarantees...Welcome to my skillet!
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