Here’s a fresh, easy raw tomatillo salsa. It’s from Aida Gabilondo’s Mexican Family Cooking , still my favorite Mexican cookbook. Green...

We went to the Tucson Tamale Festival today and bought two and a half dozen tamales from various booths, all family operations. The best pa...

My friend Dave gave us some venison that his cousin shot and took to a processor. Item #1 was this entertainingly packaged sausage. It looks...

I had a couple of episodes of stomach pain in the last week, which prompted me to look up my symptoms on the internet. All articles advised ...

I liked this sequence of photos from when we made dinner together earlier this week, Mom. First, roasted tomato vinaigrette . Then polenta -...

Lawson grew a tabasco chile plant this year. It was beautiful: all graceful sweepy branches and upright chiles ranging from a pale green to ...

My restaurant mainstay as a vegetarian child in the Southwest, sour cream enchiladas don't sound like they should work...but they do. I...

My previous post was about ribs--I was too lazy to include the sauce recipe then, so here it is. These are both adapted from the 1997 revisi...

I made this brunch for Eva and Lawson before they got on the plane to go home. The menu was poblano chiles stuffed with goat cheese; Anasazi...

You know, that recipe in your previous post was originally for scallops, and I decided to use shrimp instead. I guess you read my mind on th...

I mean that it's made with real plums, not dried fruit and suet. This may be Swedish in origin, or my grandmother may have found the rec...

I was so excited to get Molly O'Neill's American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classis Recipes from the library, and I did use on...

Living way out here in South Carolina, I have profound and regular cravings for New Mexican enchiladas. I don't think I've ever post...

Today was food-filled. I took Grandma shopping to our local Sprouts market, which was packed with beautiful, inexpensive produce as usual: s...

These recipes were included in the little cook-booklet that came with my first Waring blender back in the 70’s and are still viable. I used ...