One of my favorite places to do a cooking demonstration is at the Lafayette Community Garden behind Lafayette School in Uniontown. To become one with the elements, cooking and explaining how to use the harvest that grew within yards of your demonstration is great.This year, I was eager to use ...
Several years ago, I let Gabe, then 13, pick what he wanted to eat for New Year鈥檚 Eve.It鈥檚 a mistake I鈥檒l never make again.While I鈥檝e never received a clear answer as to what inspired his choice (and frankly, I don鈥檛 think I want to know), he wanted us to eat kielbasa tacos.Those two ...
If you do not know it is summer because of the long days, the heat and the smell of barbecue, you most certainly will recognize the season by the bloom of roadside vegetable stands and their bountiful harvest.Of course the primary crop and the gold standard at the stand is the corn.At this time ...
One time many years ago, I was riffling through my grandmother Ruth鈥檚 box of handwritten recipe cards when I pulled up short at the sight of the title of this recipe for Cheese Sandwich Souffle. Souffle? Fancy! But reading the details, I quickly understood that this item was nothing more or ...
Green Goddess Dressing was created at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, an opulent 19th-century hotel noted for its celebrity chefs. In those days, celebrity chefs were not Food Network Stars, but usually white-toqued men either from, or trained in, Europe. No one was yelling 鈥淏am!鈥� so ...
When my mom goes on a trip, my fridge fills up.A little of this, a bit of that, some stray veggies or fruit 鈥� not enough for a single meal, but also not things you鈥檇 like to leave while you鈥檙e gone, lest they morph into a 5th-grade science experiment.Over the years, I鈥檝e developed the ...
