Here’s a favorite of mine which I cut from some newspaper years ago. I made it last night and served it with a side of cauliflower. Cooked p...

Tonight we had garbanzo beans with mint and feta. We had Piedmont peppers -- I didn't have any tomatoes, so I put some spinach in there...

Golden beets! Aren't they beautiful? I got them at the natural foods store. The raw, unpeeled roots are orange and tan and quite pret...

Our six-day trip to the Salton Sea and the KOFA wilderness was excellent—more camping and less driving than usual (non-family members can la...

I tried a Cook’s Illustrated method for roasted chicken breasts tonight. It involved loosening the skin and massaging herb-and-garlic butte...

Last weekend I decided it was time to do something about this: When I moved in several years ago, Lawson and I combined our rather large and...

My food pictures haven't worked out very well lately: some mediocre meals are very photogenic, while sublime-tasting creations look unap...

It wasn't a resolution, exactly, but several months ago I decided I would a) drink more wine and less beer (beer makes me stay up too la...

Here is Grandma's recipe for her delicious meatloaf, which she adapted from a James Beard recipe. She served this to us while Russell w...

It has been a lame, uninspired week of cooking around here, but I am tired of the yogurt picture, so I'm posting a picture of some prett...

Lest everyone think I eat only bacon-filled soups and homemade cookies, here is my post-gym snack: plain yogurt with almonds, dates, flax se...

After my piano students perform in a recital I always put on a dessert buffet for them to make up for the trauma--complete with a lace table...

This is the recipe Grandma Oty baked for us back in the fifties: Peanut Blossoms 1/2 cup butter 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/2 cup white sugar 1/...

This is a modified version of a Louis Osteen recipe. (By the way, we have two identical copies of this book if you would like one.) I ser...

This post may appear to have nothing to do with cooking, but there's nothing that makes me want to stay home and cook like a solid week ...